Guide How to - Stop your ringtones being displayed in your S60 Music Player library

Notes :

This guide has been only tested on Nokia S60 phones.

It might work on other S60 phones. The concept might work on other phones too, but i have not tried it.
Requirements :

X-Plore for S60 phones. You can download it from - Lonely Cat Games - X-plore

Even the other file browsers would do, but i choose X-Plore. (The S60 File Manager will not work)
Steps -

1. Move all your ringtones from the Digital and Simple folders inside your Sounds folder on the Memory Card to a different folder inside the Sound folder itself. I have named this folder ringtones.
2. Install X-Plore by downloading it from the link provided. Open X-Plore
3. Navigate to the ringtones folder and press the 6 key to open the Attributes chooser.
4. Check the "System" attribute and press the left softkey to apply the attribute.
5. Now open your Music Player and refresh your library. All your ringtones which you just gave the attribute of System to, will now not be shown in your music player library.
This step does not work if you try to apply the system attribute to the Sounds folder itself. ( I came to know of this point from the Nokia Discussions Board, otherwise the workaround was discovered by myself :) )
 
Wow! never knew this. Thanks so much for the guide. Its was SO annoying that music player would start playing the ringtones(and i have quite a few) when listening to music while riding, and i have to skip it manually everytime. Hope it works for me though!
 
on the other hand it is much easier to set the ringtones from music player. :P

but if you create playlists then i dont see why this could be a problem. and if you have a lot of songs on your mobile, i doubt you would play it from all songs.
 
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