How do I exclude audiobook from music shuffle?

[cyoung7]

hello, when i am playing my music on shuffle, i have audio books downloaded in mp3, the music player will pick up the audio book thinking its a song, how do i prevent this

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Are you using your stock music player, or some other music app? If you selected all music, then it will consider your audiobooks as music files and play them as well. You could look for options to shuffle within a certain genre or artist. The other thing you could do would be to use a file manager app like ES File Explorer to add a blank file titled ".nomedia" to the folder where your audiobooks are located. This will instruct the system's Media Scanner to ignore that folder when scanning for music, photos, and videos to add to the various databases. But this might also prevent your audiobook player from seeing those files as well.