Tired of having your ringtones listed and played together with your music? Here’s how you can hide the tones from the Music Player.
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/YBrowser.html
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.