How To: Remove Ringtones from Media Gallery
One of the most common problems that I see on the forums is ringtones showing up in the media gallery on S60 devices. You’ve gone to the trouble to rip your mp3s off a CD, and cut them up using Audacity. Heck yes! You pull up your memory card and there’s a nicely labeled folder, "Sounds", with a "Simple" folder neatly tucked inside. Easy as pie, right? Except for, oh shoot, Nokia made it so that the gallery app searches those same folders, thereby insuring that those 30 second ringtones interrupt your music player library.
Is there a fix? Of course. It would be easy for Nokia to specify a different folder for one or the other. It would also be easy for them to automatically not include tracks less than 30 seconds long. Easy. But alas, that’s just not the case. So what’s a ringtone enthusiast to do? Y, that’s easy……
The first step is to install Y-browser from DrJukka.com. It’s easy, it’s free. Do it. This is a file browser for your phone, allowing you to easily explore and manipulate the different files. Just be careful in there! It also has some different plug-ins that add other capabilities, such as the ability to send stuff via bluetooth, and the ability to explore the message inbox.
OK, now that you’ve got Y-browser installed, open it and navigate to E:/Sounds/Simple by pressing the joystick/d-pad to the right, and scrolling. Now highlight your ringtone and press the left softkey (labeled "Options"). Go to File -> Attributes, and click to select. Scroll down to "Hidden" and change it from "No" to "Yes" and Wa-La!!
You can now exit Y-browser, and update your music library. You’ll find that your ringtone files are now removed from your library, but still available under profiles!! Now you can enjoy your music without having to suffer through those little ringtones!! While you’re here, be sure to check in the sidebar on the right to download my current ringtone!
thanks for your good tips sharing….rocks!!!
That is an amazing tip! thanks :0
Now my zampar ringtone from the 8800 will be hidden on my E61i
I gotta give it up on that one! That’s one solid tip!
Doesn’t work on my N80
Tracks removed from music library but also don’t show up in profiles.
Wowww THIS IS THE TIP for N95!!!
I did not think about using the hidden attribute.
I am using Xplorer and it’s working perfect!
For information, it is also working if you want to hide a photo or video in the gallery!!!!!!!
MANY THANKS!
doesn’t work with n80 and f explorer v 1.16..
stays in music player, and removes from profiles.
Better option is to change the id3 tags on them,
i used i tunes, changed the tags so genre, artist and album are ‘ringtone’ then they stay in their own little folders when your diggin thru ya tunes..
_:)
Or… just move all ringtones to a specific folder and just hide the folder with Y-Browser…
Works on N95
Great tip. I would like to have this effect in reverse as well. In the sense, I had uploaded few music tracks in “simple” and “digital” folder. These music tracks started to appear in the ring tone list. Any clues on how to remove this appearance of music tracks in the ring tone list?
Thanks in advance,
On my N73 the ringtones come back to the music player when I select “Refresh Music library”, which makes this how-to pretty much useless. Any other ideas? The guys at Nokia really should have thought about this!
on n73 music edition, ringtones are automatically hidden from you music folders. using y browser, it comes under z:\Data\Sounds\Digital
but no matter how i set the attributes > hidden > to yes, i cannot save the options. whereas when you cut a song and its under thirty seconds, you can set that part you cut, to hidden or not, and save it.
anyhigher versions of y-browser to hide my ringtones?
Hey…
found the solution for s60 mobiles other than N95….
im using xplore…
what u have to do is,first copy the 30 sec clip on ur memory card or phone memory wherever u like…then refresh music library…u’ll find that 30 sec ringtone there….play it….set it as ur ringtone…stop the song….go to xplore…set the attributes of the file as hidden….now refresh the music library…..the ringtone will disappear from the music library and at the same time will be ur current ringtone….
but alas….if u change ur ringtone to some other song, and afterwards u try to put ur previous ringtone as ur current one,u’ll need to change its attributes to “not hidden” and set it as ringtone and then again make it hidden…
A method I tested on my N82: I changed the file extensions on my ringtone files from .mp3/.aac./m4a to .mid
The files don’t show up in the Media Gallery any more, and even if the files are not real .mid-files, they can be selected and played as ringtones. No need to hide the files using y-browser.