topic Re: Album artwork in picture library in Android

Album artwork in picture library

Username1758 — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 08:24:32 GMT

Since downloading and using spotify my picture library has become full of album artwork from spotify that redownloads whenever I delete it. Is there a way to stop this artwork appearing in my pictures library?

Re: Album artwork in picture library

Liam — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 10:11:36 GMT

Hi @Username1758 and welcome to the community 🙂

When you say picture library, where do you mean? The album art should be downloaded to a private cache folder - it shouldn't appear in the gallery app at all.

The album artwork has to be cached.

Liam

Re: Album artwork in picture library

Username1758 — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 10:15:47 GMT

The artwork is appearing in my default android gallery application.
If I delete the photos they reappear after some time.

Re: Album artwork in picture library

Liam — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 11:14:00 GMT

@Username1758 wrote:
The artwork is appearing in my default android gallery application.
If I delete the photos they reappear after some time.

What is their location on the file system?

Once you find it, create an empty file called .nomedia in that folder, reboot your device and the pictures will stop showing in the gallery.

Liam

Re: Album artwork in picture library

Daniel — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 11:17:02 GMT

Odd, it shouldn't do that.

Out of curiosity what phone/ROM do you have?

If you want to get rid of the cached images from the gallery you can create a blank file in the directory the pictures are located and name it ".nomedia" this will tell the gallery not to display them.

Alternatively the App QuickPic can do this for you.

Re: Album artwork in picture library

Liam — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 11:21:03 GMT

No need to repeat what has already been said... It annoys certain people.

Re: Album artwork in picture library

Username1758 — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:18:06 GMT

That fixed the problem,and I'm using the Sony Z1 compact with android 4.4.2 installed. Thank you

Re: Album artwork in picture library

Liam — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:30:27 GMT

No worries, glad to help 🙂

Liam

Re: Album artwork in picture library

Daniel — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:19:05 GMT

@Liam wrote:
No need to repeat what has already been said... It annoys certain people.

Hi mate, I think it was more a case of posting at the same time. I don't post if someone's already stated the answer.