Hide ringtones from the Music Player [S60]

Tired of having your ringtones listed and played together with your music? Here's how you can hide the tones from the Music Player. This is applicable for Symbian phones only (N82, N95, etc.).
WARNING: The advise below involves changing folder attributes and using tools that might easily harm the file system of your phone! If unsure that you can handle the steps, better leave the ringtones be.
Note: Following the advise below will also hide the folder/files from the build-in File Manager.
To prevent a file or folder with ringtones from being listed in the MP3 player:
1. Get yourself a file manager that allows you to change file/folder attributes. Y-Browser will do the job - http://www.drjukka.com
2. Create a separate folder and place in it all the ringtones and melodies you want to hide from the player. I recommend using the memory card - this will help you repair the file system in case something goes wrong.
3. Open the file manager from Step 1 (not the build-in File Manager) and navigate to the folder from Step 2.
4. Change the attributes of the folder to 'System'. For Y-Browser highlight the folder and choose Options -> Attributes then set 'System' to 'Yes' and press Save.
5. Exit the file manager and refresh the library of the Music Player. Now the folder/files are not shown in the Music Player/File Manager but are still listed on music file selection dialogs (like 'Ringing tone' option in Contacts).
You can also hide single files by setting their attributes to 'System'. I do not recommend this, though.
Please, have in mind that reverting the folder to non-system might not be possible (N82 + Y-Browser 0.88, for example). If this happens you need to move the files to another folder and then delete and recreate the folder. If you have set up the folder/files on the memory card, use a card reader or 'Mass storage' mode to connect to the computer and reset the attributes from there.
Ericsson T10i -> Nokia 7110 -> Siemens C45, C55, M55, M65 -> Nokia 6131, N73, N82 -> HTC Wildfire, Desire HD -> Nokia Lumia 800 -> HTC Desire X -> Lumia 820 -> Sony Xperia SP -> Lumia 925 + Sennheiser CX 500
If I've helped, use the Kudos button to thank

Does the music play on the iPod?
If not then it is gone.
otherwise:
Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device: Apple Support Communities

Similar Messages

  • I want to make a ringtone from my music player?

    I've just bought a Nokia 5310 xpress music and have downloaded all my favourites on to it from Windows Media Player. I want to make one of my tunes in the music player into a ringtone.A guy in the shop showed me how to do it and now i've forgotten.Anyone help please? thanks.
    Solved!
    Go to Solution.

    Going to Menu>Settings>Tones>Ringing tone should find compatible music files wherever they are on the phone. However, many protected tracks are prevented by Digitial Rights Management from being used as tones.

  • How can I stop my iPhone 5 from starting the music player randomly on its own?

    I have an iPhone 5 running the latest version of iOS.  Sometime last year (maybe shortly after I originally upgraded to iOS 7), the phone developed a nasty habit of starting up the music player during phone conversations when I connected to my Mazda's Bluetooth system.  Oddly enough, I can hear the music playing over the phone conversation but the person on the other end of the phone line can't.  To stop the music, I have to open the Music App and then close the App.  Note that the Music App did NOT have to be previously open for the music to start, and the Music App doesn't usually show as an open App even after the music starts on its own.  The problem has persisted through the last few iOS updates and it now happens in a broader range of circumstances (e.g., I have told the iPhone to forget the Mazda adapter, and it now does the same thing with my Plantronics Voyager Bluetooth headset).  I usually have to go through this sequence at least twice per Bluetooth pairing session before the phone stops trying to start the music player on its own during phone calls.
    The problem went away temporarily when I did a full reset of the phone, but it came back after a few days (even when I added apps & music back without restoring from an iOS backup).
    Has anyone found a way to fix this problem once and for all?  If I can find a fix, it's enough of an annoyance that it might convince me to go Android with my next phone.  Thanks in advance...

    I've tried syncing with itunes and icloud.  The missing contacts are nowhere to be found.  I just re-enter them on my iphone and proceed on my not so merry way.  Next time I look for a contact, it might be there or it might not.  It is not necessarily the same contact.  It appears that my oldest contacts seem to be the ones disappearing

  • How can I get my iPhone to play the last track the music player was playing from where it left off at the same volume even if I switch my phone off?

    The music player always reverts back to where I started the day before at a low volume and it's driving me mad! On a previous phone with earlier IOS there was the option to play from where the track left off when stopped - how do I find this option now?

    If you click on the column headings in iTunes it will sort the tracks by the column you have selected.
    Try clicking on the Album column, this should then put the tracks in the right order. You probably have the Track column selected which will keep the tracks in alphabetical order by Track name.
    Ian

  • 5800 - Stop ringtones playing in music player - ho...

    As the subject suggests - does anyone know how to do this?
    I find it very annoying when I choose to listen to all music and the ringtones or message tones play 

    I've found a workaround for this problem that seems to work for me on my 5800 XM Nav Ed.  After I was done adding all of my music to my phone and refreshed my music library I too found that the ringtones that I'd downloaded in the past had showed up in the music player when I displayed all songs.  So what I did was remove the ringtones from the "Sounds\Digital Sounds" folder on my external memory card and moved them to the "Other" folder on the phone's internal memory using the built in file manager application.  Then I went back into the music player app and low and behold the ringtones were no longer displayed in the music library when I displayed all songs.  I did however have to go back to the phone profiles that I had customized (i.e. Normal, meeting, etc.) and reselect the appropriate ringtone because when you first go into the profile to customize after having moved the tones from their original location to the "Other" folder you get an error message that basically states the ringtone cannot be found so a default will be used.  When you select the ringtone to change it however, the original ringtone that you used will be displayed in the list of available tones you just have to reselect it to make it work again.  If however you do add more songs and do a refresh on the music library the ringtones will show up again when you display all songs in the music library.  Hope you find this works for you as well.  Like I said it is a workaround and not a permanent fix.

  • How do I get a purchased ringtone from my music library to Ringtones?

    I've purchased a couple of ringtones from itunes but they downloaded into my music library and I can't figure out how to move them to the Ringtones folder in my library. I tried going back to itunes and downloading them directly onto my phone but they show "purchased" and will only play, not download.
    TIA
    alice

    No, what I actually purchased was a ringtone.  I actually purchased it on my iphone from contacts by selecting a contact, clicking edit, clicking ringtone, clicking "buy buy more tones", being taken to the "tones" section of the itunes store, finding the tone I wanted in the "tones" section of the itunes store and buying it.  It download as an m4r file and remains in m4r file.  Unfortunately, no matter what I do, I cannot get this m4r ringtone file that I purchased from the itunes store "tones" section from the music folder in itunes media to the ringtones folder.

  • How can I close the music player?

    Good morning,
         I just bought an iPod nano 6G, and this is my firs Apple product.
         Anyway, there is something that is bottering me. I use the iPod as a watch, and sometimes I use as music player. After I'm done listening to music and want to use the iPod JUST as a watch, when I press the Wake button, to visualize the hours, it shows the music player. And there is this 'pause' icon in the top bar.
         Isn't there a way to close this player???
              Thank you!

    It might help to also put the iPod to sleep from a screen other than the Now Playing screen when listening to music.
    As I said already above...
    Again, others have synced their iPod with iTunes after making sure this setting was On and it worked from there.  Is your Nano running the 1.2 firmware?
    B-rock

  • HT4972 Has anyone had issues with failure of the music player to launch after updating to OS5? My Gen 3 will no longer play music!

    Has anyone had issues with failure of the music player to launch after updating to OS5? My Gen 3 will no longer play music!

    I think a few have.
    Try the standard fixes:
    - Reset. Nothing is lost
    Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
    least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
    - Restore from backup
    - Restore to factory defaults/new iPod.

  • How do I create a ringtone from my music already on my iTunes database

    How do I create a ringtone from my music already on my iTunes database

    take a look at the link gives you detailed instructions to create ringtone and sync to yoru phone
    http://www.ehow.com/how_2160460_custom-iphone-ringtones-free.html

  • How can I get rid of the playlist bar in the music player?

    Hello everyone! I want to know if I can get rid of the transparent playlist bar which shows over the cover artwork in the music player (ios 6) or Lagu. When I play one song alone, the artwork shows fully and that's how I would like it to be when playing playlists. Is there a way? In the ios 7 the artwork this does not happen, but the artwork is smaller and on a white background, which I don't like either. Thank you.

    Sounds like you installed a Yahoo optimized version of Firefox.
    You can download the official version of Firefox from here. <br />
    http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

  • Not see the background images in the music player

    Hi all!
    Well I'll try to explain my problem in my best english
    I have an Ipod Touch 1G (Ver: 2.1), a MacBook (Mac OSX 1.5.5) and the latest itunes avaliable for donwload.
    The problem I have is that spent a lot of time adding an image to every song that I have in my music library but when I upload to the ipod it isn't shown in the music player.
    I try this things:
    - Reupload the song with de image
    - Asing an image over a song which already on the ipod yet
    - Using another PC with Windows XP and the latest version of itunes
    - Using different images for the same song, trying first one and then another one
    Some songs have an image but I think that songs are there long time ago.
    I hope I can explain my problem. Could you help me?
    thanks for all!

    Hi thanks for reply
    I can see the album art in the itunes if I go to get information about the file there is it (I´m trying now in windows becouse I don't have here the MacBook)
    I manually manage music so I uploaded one file which I can see their album art in itunes but when i play it in the iPod it doesn't show me the album art
    Later I try to open the file in the ipod from itunes and I can see the image as in my computer.
    I have apple care for the macbook but it seems a problem with the ipod. Don't you think?
    thanks for all!

  • When i "Refresh Music Library" the music player is...

    Hello.
    I tried to transfer some music with the Nokia Music Manager to the phone, and from some reason the transferring is stopped, and i have got a failure message. After i tried to refreshing the music library on my phone and when i do this, the music player is switching off everytime. I can not delete now, the bad musics from the phone, and i cant open a "Now playing" folder and i have got a little symbol above the music title. This is a playlist symbol with a key.
    Can You help me in this question?

    Hello, thanks for Your reply. I have checked zhe space on my card. just 100 Mb used from 512 Mb. When i delete the music files, it can not open any tracklist either. If i loading back the original files,(which were in the damaged track list) in this case it is opening the old tracklist and playing this files. Not any other. If i give any more music to this tracklist, it doesnt matter, it is playing just the original 51 piece mp3, which are in the damaged list. If any file missing from this list, it is just jumping to the neyt track.
    Im an IT programmer and i never ever have seen the same symptomes.:?!
    Thanks anyway.
    Chris

  • Turn off landscape mode on the music player

    Hello,
    Is there away to keep the music player on the iphone from switching to landscape mode? The slightest movement switches it to landscape mode and I can't see the progress bar. (important for my mp3s which are several hours).
    I've been all over the settings, so i'm assuming I can't, but I'd thought I'd ask.
    Thanks!

    Sorry, you can't disable landscape mode. You can send feedback to Apple here... http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

  • I Have a problem when am connecting my I phone to Mac. All my song are geting erase from my music player

    I Have a problem when am connecting my I phone to Mac. All my song are geting erase from my music player
    <Edited by Host>

    rbncool wrote:
    I Have a problem when am connecting my I phone to Mac. All my song are geting erase from my music player
    <Edited by Host>
    That usually means that you previously synced your iPhone to a different computer. An iPhone can only sync to one computer. If you try to sync to a different one the iTunes content on the phone will be replaced by the contents of the new computer.

  • The music player on control center on ipad2

    Since I updated my ipad2 , i have gotten hang of most of the new functions , but then I am having some issue with the music player on the control centre , there Is the play button and next there. But then i can't play music when I press play,  then even after I open the music app and play from there,it's playing , but I cannot next on the control centre also , in IOS 6 , I could just start from the control centre by pressing play without opening the music app , is it the IOS 7 issue or it's my iPad not working ? The rest is all fine but . Can someone help please .

    yeah even i am facing the same issue. The sound works for some time and the moment i get happy that the issue is solved, the bingo no sound.
    Its really frustrating i have to say and also i have noticed the over all volume of the ring tones has come down.

Maybe you are looking for