How to restrict some tracks from playing in 'Shuffle tracks'

Question

I have some audio tracks on my phone that I want to be excluded from general music playing. For example, I have some meditations, which I love, but only want to play them when I explicitly choose them, not during shuffle at a party :p

I've just transitioned from iPhone. In Itunes, there is the option on each song to include in playback or not.

Is there anything like this the music app on Android?

That's not a standard feature of Android. However, you can place these meditation tracks in a separate folder and use a third party folder play apps from Izzy's list — beeshyams, Feb 21 '17 at 09:09

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 27 '17 at 01:41

I put all of my non-music files in to their own folders. I use 'My Files' to copy a '.nomedia' file from some folder (ie: from anki or whatsapp), and paste it in to the non-music folder.

This stops the media files from showing up in 'Music'.

I then use Mort Music - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.stohelit.folderplayer to listen to the audio-books and meditation folders.

How to restrict some tracks from playing in 'Shuffle tracks'

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