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I tried to find out why the integration of Android media in the stock media player and gallery just doesn't work at all. While doing some investigations, I found out something strange. Tracker is set up to scan the following Android directories:

• /home/nemo/android_storage/DCIM
• /home/nemo/android_storage/Download
• /home/nemo/android_storage/Pictures
• /home/nemo/android_storage/Podcasts
• /home/nemo/android_storage/Music

This seems like a sensible way to include, say, music or images from Android apps to the tracker database. In theory. On my phone, however, most of these directories don't exist inside ~/android_storage/. I'm missing:

• /home/nemo/android_storage/Pictures
• /home/nemo/android_storage/Podcasts
• /home/nemo/android_storage/Music

(Download and DCIM are there.)

Also, the article [TechSpecs] Android on Jolla phone lists directories under ~/android_storage/ that just aren't there on my phone.

So my questions are:

1. Should I see these directories on my phone? Or are they missing on all Alien Dalvik installations?
2. If they should be there - can I just manually add them so they'll survive a re-start of the Android subsystem?
3. If they aren't meant to be there - why is Tracker configured to scan them?
4. And finally: From an Android PoV, are those directories special somehow? Does it make a difference for Android? Like: Would music applications automatically choose ~/android_storage/Music as their download directory should it be available? Or is it just a directory like any other? (Just asking because these directories get a special mention as "Medias Directories" in [TechSpecs] Android on Jolla phone

I tried to find out why the integration of Android media in the stock media player and gallery just doesn't work at all. While doing some investigations, I found out something strange. Tracker is set up to scan the following Android directories:

• /home/nemo/android_storage/DCIM
• /home/nemo/android_storage/Download
• /home/nemo/android_storage/Pictures
• /home/nemo/android_storage/Podcasts
• /home/nemo/android_storage/Music

This seems like a sensible way to include, say, music or images from Android apps to the tracker database. In theory. On my phone, however, most of these directories don't exist inside ~/android_storage/. I'm missing:

• /home/nemo/android_storage/Pictures
• /home/nemo/android_storage/Podcasts
• /home/nemo/android_storage/Music

(Download and DCIM are there.)

Also, the article [TechSpecs] Android on Jolla phone lists directories under ~/android_storage/ that just aren't there on my phone.

So my questions are:

1. Should I see these directories on my phone? Or are they missing on all Alien Dalvik installations?
2. If they should be there - can I just manually add them so they'll survive a re-start of the Android subsystem?
3. If they aren't meant to be there - why is Tracker configured to scan them?
4. And finally: From an Android PoV, are those directories special somehow? Does it make a difference for Android? Like: Would music applications automatically choose ~/android_storage/Music as their download directory should it be available? Or is it just a directory like any other? (Just asking because these directories get a special mention as "Medias Directories" in [TechSpecs] Android on Jolla phone )