Currently, the Android Music player searches the entire SD card for all playable files. When a user chooses to shuffle all songs, sometimes application sound files are included in the shuffle.

This results in a situation where a user might be listening to a track, then suddenly, “Turn left in 3 miles” (or some other inappropriate sound file) plays.

If, like me you only want to listen to the MP3 files that you have actually put into your ‘Music’ folder, then here is the solution.

Simple!

Place a ‘.nomedia‘ (Right Click, Save As) file into the folders you do not want to be included in the music player.

Restart the phone, then you should only have the music files that you want to listen to in your player!

Works for all Android devices, G1, G2, MyTouch, Hero, Dream, Magic, Sapphire etc.