Music player (JetAudio) picks up notifications and ringtones

[Fallingwater]

I have a Zenfone 6 currently running Kitkat. I've tried googling for this problem, but all I get is people who have their ringtones showing up in Google Music. This does not happen in my case - ringtones and notifications don't show up in Google Music, and music doesn't show up in the notification/ringtone picker.

Problem is, I don't use Google Music as my music player and have no intention to do so ever. My player of choice is JetAudio, which works very well except that it does pick up files in the notification and ringtone folders, helpfully listing them under "unknown artist" and occasionally playing them when I'm shuffling my whole library with predictably annoying results.

Adding a .nomedia file to the notification and ringtone folders would cause the notification picker to not see them either, so it isn't an option.

Is there any way of selectively preventing an app from accessing specific folders? Preventing access to ALL folders except a whitelist would work as well.

 

[mikedt]

Sounds a like a limitation of JetAudio, being unable to choose specific folders...and if .NOMEDIA isn't an option.

My player of choice is Rocket Player and that can, so basically it's, this folder is where you find my music, do NOT look anywhere else.

Might be worth you shooting an email to the JetAudio devs and suggesting it to them?

 

[dontpanicbobby]

It's not very intuitive but try this:
Open JetAudio
Click on the Hamburger icon (top left)
Tap on Preferences
Tap on Browser and scroll down to Music folder
Tap Restrict music folder and Choose folder will light up
Tap on Go To
Choose /Storage/emulated/0/Music
Tap on Okay

HTH

 

[Fallingwater]

It's not very intuitive but try this:
Open JetAudio
Click on the Hamburger icon (top left)
Tap on Preferences
Tap on Browser and scroll down to Music folder
Tap Restrict music folder and Choose folder will light up
Tap on Go To
Choose /Storage/emulated/0/Music
Tap on Okay

HTH

Thanks, but I already set this up - problem is, as it says in the selection field for that option, it only works for the Song and Genre browsers. I browse - like, I suspect, most people - by artist, where this doesn't work. Why they haven't included the artist selection in this is beyond me, but that's that.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

You need a Tag Editor. All the CDs I've ripped got the tag info right but occasionally when i just download a song some of the tag info isn't there. MP3 Tag might have been the name of the app I used. It's been a long time...