Ringtones

Not a reply but similar question: I would like to hide Fring tones and my ringing mp3 tune from music menu. I would love to see only music I intend to listen. Same problem with picture gallery and pictures from tom tom.

Get a proper file management software program on your phone Y-Browser is pretty decent then attach your phone in USB Data Transfer mode, move the files into their own folder and then make them hidden.

That should remove them from the gallery and hopefully the ring tone selector.

yeah, Id go with that too. Just change the arritbutes

So what I need the Y-browser for? I can change attributes when connected in data transfer mode via PC. Am I right?

but i wont be able to find it in music player

Yes that's why you need Y-Browser 😉 setting them to hidden will stop the phone from displaying them in the gallery and the music player etc.

If you specifically want to listen to them you can navigate to the folder and launch them directly. Also works well for any ummmm.... questionable... content you may not want in the gallery 😉

well thats lame, defeats the whole point

Well yes its far from ideal but the only way you can remove stuff is to make them invisable. meaning you have to access that content via another method. It's quite possible that the inbuilt file browser will do it im not sure.

Once upon a time you used to be able to store everything nicely in a proper folder structure like you would have on a pc. You could view content on the phone memory and memory card seperatly and you just moved photos and sounds into the relevant subfolder and all those sub folders showed up in the gallery.

When they released the 6630 they bastardised the gallery mashing everything into one place so it pulled your content from memory card or phone memory and showd it as one big list. Folders became irrelavant and creating a folder in the gallery simply tagged a file and left it in its place meaning that after you had created a nice folder structure in the gallery as soon as you put the memory card in a pc it was all over the place and the same if you created a folder structure on the card via pc.

When they released the N-Series they further mashed around with it and we have the useless thing we have today. Not only does it still lack any sensible folder structure (even putting things into albums puts EVERYTHING on the Photos and Videos) but you cant hide stuff from it. Finsing something you took say 2 months ago means scrolling back though a painful list of content. Nokia seems to think this is progress when it was just unneeded simplification because some people cant work out that when they can't find a photo it's because they need to press right to switch between phone memory and storage memory.

If it wasn't the fact that you don't have thumbnails when viewing it though a 3rd party app I probably wouldn't use it.

The question posed at the top of the thread is exactly why I registered here to find an answer for.

6 or 7 Gb of mp3s on the memory card means a lot of scrolling in the ringtone selector and it seems I can't even skip to tracks starting with certain letter to speed it up.

Got my mp3s/ringtones both on memory card in different locations specifically to keep them separate from each other and safe when I do a firmware update.

Seems like Nokia ballsed up on this bit of what otherwise is a lovely handset (N85). 😞