Media scanner ignores .nomedia on external sd card I have my music on the external SD card on my phone, and use FolderSync to automatically sync podcast files to the same SD card from my computer. There are .nomedia files in the podcast folders (they are synced from the computer), but not in the music folders. When I start SongBird, both music and podcast files show up. Why? What can I do to fix it?

If I wipe the media cache, SongBird shows no music and no podcasts. When I run rescan, it only says "Scanning /storage/sdcard0" (internal SD) but afterwards the media files on the external card (/storage/sdcard1) show up in SongBird.

I use DoggCatcher with virtual feeds (watched folders) to listen to podcasts.

Phone: Samsung GT-i9000 running CyanogenMod 10.1.2-galaxysmtd
This question is a little old, but I will post my findings on it.

This seemed to be a bug in Android 4.0. There was an issue in Media Scanner that it ignored the .nomedia file in most instances. If you cleared the Media Scanner cache, it would re-index and then honor the .nomedia file. 

According to the bug report, it was fixed with this changeset.