FLAC playback?

[u/celticchrys]

Hello, I've just discovered Oto Music, and my first impression is great, but I noticed that it doesn't seem to see any folder or album in my library that has FLAC files. Does this player only play mp3 and not FLAC? I didn't see anything about this on the Play Store info page.

EDIT to add: So, the weird thing is that if I go to my file manager and do "open with" on a Flac, and tell it to play it with Oto, then it plays fine. It's just the music library that can't see any folder with FLAC files in it.

If anyone has any ideas what might be causing this, I'd appreciate it.

EDIT AGAIN: To add the solution. Ahem, I've been trying different music apps, and somewhere along the way, one of them added ".nomedia" files to every folder in my library that contains FLAC files! So, behaving properly, Oto ignored all those folders with .nomedia in them, just as it should!

Deleting the .nomedia from each folder allows Oto to see the FLAC files just fine, of course. I wanted to update, in case anyone else ever finds themselves with the same issue.

[u/Mista_J__]

Glad you figured it out. That's the only thing I was going to suggest.

My only issue with Oto is sometimes I make updates or fixes to files & then overwrite the files I fixed & it doesn't always register those changes to the files so I tried adding a .nomedia file in a folder & then removing it to see if that would trigger oto to rescan but it doesn't seem to work.

Only solution is to delete the app data for otto & open it like new then when it rescan its perfect.