[Q] Music Playlist...Froyo, Apex 5.3 - Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi guys......I've been using Apex 5.3 and I've noticed something......You make a playlist in your favorite music player and then reboot the phone, after the reboot and the media scanner, you check the playlist and there are no songs in the playlist!!..............I've notted that it just happens in Android 2.2 Froyo, when i was whit a GB ROM It didn't happen...... I would like to know if there is any way to avoid this!.....It's annoying making the same playlist a lot of times!!! I would appreciate you to Help Me
And....sorry for my bad English ...........If you don't understand my words tell me please I'm just learning and i'm from Mexico!! Greetings

I have similar issue with mixzing. Playlists are lost after flashing roms. Any suggestion on how to preserve my playlists

mansared said:
I have similar issue with mixzing. Playlists are lost after flashing roms. Any suggestion on how to preserve my playlists
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Your playlist are usually saved on your sd card as a little file. You could back it up and re-open it after flashing a new ROM.
Might be different with different player tho, I haven't tested it. Just my though on it as I don't use playlist

Do you know where I can find this file???

caddi234 said:
Do you know where I can find this file???
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Usually would be in a folder created by your music player (with the name of your music player). Although, like I mentionned, I don't use playlist so I'm not sure where they would be placed

I'm going to go ahead and mention this now:
This is an issue relating to the media scanner. It is not specific to any one application, phone, or ROM. I've done a ton of searching on Google for an answer, and it is obviously not restricted and seems to come from the media scanner. Winamp, Songbird, PowerAMP, Instinctiv, Android Music, etc... all seem to have this problem.
As far as I know, there is no fix. Your best bet is to get an app that will let you sync playlists from your computer, and sync regularly. If you use an app that saves playlists as .m3u, you can create a new folder called .NoMedia, and media scanner will ignore it, and thus, not try to update it. If your app does not create playlist files, your playlists are stored in a database file and you're really out of luck.
Please, if anyone knows of a fix, please help!

rmikulus said:
I'm going to go ahead and mention this now:
This is an issue relating to the media scanner. It is not specific to any one application, phone, or ROM. I've done a ton of searching on Google for an answer, and it is obviously not restricted and seems to come from the media scanner. Winamp, Songbird, PowerAMP, Instinctiv, Android Music, etc... all seem to have this problem.
As far as I know, there is no fix. Your best bet is to get an app that will let you sync playlists from your computer, and sync regularly. If you use an app that saves playlists as .m3u, you can create a new folder called .NoMedia, and media scanner will ignore it, and thus, not try to update it. If your app does not create playlist files, your playlists are stored in a database file and you're really out of luck.
Please, if anyone knows of a fix, please help!
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The only solution I've found is FLASHING A GINGERBREAD ROM...I haven't had problems about this in Gingerbread........But I think they are still a little unstables!! :S

I'm having the same problem with FroYo and PowerAmp on my Captivate but the problem only occurs when I unmount and re-mount the SD cards and then the media scanner runs. If I reboot on the phone normally the scanner leaves the playlists in tact.
If you're using PowerAmp there's actually a 2 different settings that fix this, under Advanced Folder options: No System Scan For Folders, and Create /MusicFolders. For the first one you just select which folders you want to exclude from the scanner, for the latter it creates said folder (on both SD cards) and then you need to move your music to the MusicFolders folder(s). I suppose the former is easier if you have your music spread out over both SD cards or just don't feel like moving your music underneath another subfolder. The trade-off to this is that you lose use of the System Library and can only use Folder Playlists.
I used the Create /MusicFolders option, moved all my mp3s under it, created a couple of playlists with a few songs each. Unmounted/re-mounted the SD cards and also rebooted the phone and let the media scanner run both times and the Folder Playlists were untouched. Hopefully there's a fix eventually but for now, I can live with cumbersome functionality of using only folders since I only use playlists and very rarely shuffle all the songs on my phone. Not having to spend a half hour recreating playlists is more than worth the tradeoff.

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adding music to g1 from computer?

Hey guys im not sure if there's a sticky or how-to here on the forums on how to add music from your computer to your g1... if there isn't can someone please explain how? thanks
Just copy any mp3 files to the SD card, the apps on the v1.5 of Android will search out any mp3 files, if you are still using v1.0/1.1 I forget the app I used to use, but there should be several available from Android Market for free.
can i get 1.5 without having a rooted phone? if so how?
Don't need to be on 1.5, 1.0 (RC19-RC30) and 1.1 (RC33) will do. Just dump the mp3s into a directory named "Music" on the root of the sdcard. The mp3s can be in any depth of directory. The music app will automatically index them and show album art if present. Android presents the sdcard as a mass storage class device, so any program that can manage such a device can also manage a music library on the sdcard.
thanks! im stupid for not realizing how to do it in the first place lol
rschuman90 said:
thanks! im stupid for not realizing how to do it in the first place lol
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Or used to something much more convulted...
DoubleTwist
There is also a program called DoubleTwist which will let you copy music that you have downloaded from iTunes over to you phone as well. It is completely free but it requires registration.
Right this isn't an ipod.
P.s. do the lazy/stupid owners of the almighty G1 annoy the piss out of anyone else? I see it here (a developer not a user forum), the market, other forums, etc.
CBowley said:
Right this isn't an ipod.
P.s. do the lazy/stupid owners of the almighty G1 annoy the piss out of anyone else? I see it here (a developer not a user forum), the market, other forums, etc.
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Every mass-market consumer device has uninformed or inexperienced users. That's just natural. I'm okay with seeing newbie questions in the General or App&Games forums, but it does irritate me to see them in the Dev forum. Especially since every other post is a problem related to A2SD or not wiping on an upgrade.
This is getting offtopic.
CBowley said:
Right this isn't an ipod.
P.s. do the lazy/stupid owners of the almighty G1 annoy the piss out of anyone else? I see it here (a developer not a user forum), the market, other forums, etc.
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IDK if this was a jab at things not being complex, but I for one am totally in favor of a system that makes sense- i.e. being able to put music anywhere on the phone and the phone will find it.
mer6 said:
IDK if this was a jab at things not being complex, but I for one am totally in favor of a system that makes sense- i.e. being able to put music anywhere on the phone and the phone will find it.
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I'm not, then you get ringtones being played etc, if I could have my ringtone on another partition etc it wouldn't matter but normal system apps don't find or use ringtones from anywhere else but on the sdcard
delta_foxtrot2 said:
I'm not, then you get ringtones being played etc, if I could have my ringtone on another partition etc it wouldn't matter but normal system apps don't find or use ringtones from anywhere else but on the sdcard
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Not at all. I mean with android, or most mp3 players all you do is drag and drop. With the ipod you need to download the music, convert, add to itunes, connect device, wait for sync, or something to that effect (never used an ipod, not into marketing hype or using a product JUST because it's trendy).
It's just linux/android is so simple to use, just most people are so used to the backwards ways of microsoft, or apple, that they don't stop to think that it juat may be that simple.
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Not at all. I mean with android, or most mp3 players all you do is drag and drop. With the ipod you need to download the music, convert, add to itunes, connect device, wait for sync, or something to that effect (never used an ipod, not into marketing hype or using a product JUST because it's trendy).
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You just said what I said in a previous comment where I said "a convulted process", it's not that linux or any of the MP3 players offer a simple process but Apple makes the process convulted for their own ends to lock the user into their devices and software.
resurrecting an oldish thread instead of starting a new one.
Most of my music is copied over onto my G1. Sometimes it finds album art and sometimes it doesn't. I can't seem to get manually copied thumbnail pics to be recognized by the music or htcmusic apps. Is there a way to fill in missing album art?
What I do, since I've had all my music organized on itunes, is add it to iTunes
And have it automatically search for the album art.
If i can't find it just go to google and search for the artist and album in images
And drag and drop to the song.
OR
Right Click and select get info,
And on the last tab I believe is the album art.
And just copy and paste, or drag and drop from the browser, the album art..
From there just drag and drop the song to your SD card, pretty easy..
And for the people saying its a convoluted process, its not.
Just double click the song, or add the song to iTunes, connect the iPod and it automatically syncs.
Or like I do and manually manage my iPod, just drag and drop.
Simple.
I ran into this problem recently and found a unified solution. My ipod uses Rockbox so it syncs with music players the same way my G1 does. I use iTunes to keep my library organized and for importing new music and getting album artwork and then use winamp to sync it to my phone and ipod. Since doing it this way I have no problems with missing artwork or any other syncing issues.
these both sound look good ideas but I'd have to actually commit to an application for managing my library. My wife has Itunes set up for her ipod and I've always hated Itunes. I suppose there is a way to have two separate libraries for two different users and their assorted devices in Itunes? or maybe not.
I was able to pull album art in winamp for my files, so maybe I can sync just the albums I need to update.
MP3 to G1
I use Sailing Media Sync to add music on my G1. You can choose what playlist from itunes you want to have it synced with. It transfers the album art as well.
http://www.salling.com/MediaSync/Mac/
I prefer this than dragging and dropping. This is for the Mac but I do think they came out with a PC version.

Xperia Media Panel

I read that the Xperia Media panel will search my entire memory card for music. Problem is, I have Starcraft and other things installed, and Starcraft alone has like 900 audio files. Is there anyway I can keep the panel from adding certain files?
I was hoping to avoid installing those things directly to my phone.
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Kurazz
I don't know of such way to skip folders from being scanned. And the worst thing is, that I can't go through MP3 folders, but should rely on id3 tags and playlists. And many times my mp3s just don't have tags, or it's VA folder, so I need to create playlists for every folder of music, that is not with one artist/album.
For me it was annoying looking at my images.
Now I live without Starcraft on my phone. Interested for a solution as well.
But I think there is no hope...I even have trouble with folders I don't want Windows Media Player to scan...and thats a desktop computer program
Eventually, if I can't find a solution, I'll just install Starcraft directly to my phone (It just will take up most my remaining space). I'm sure there is some sort of tweak you can do though.

[Q] Media Player Play list

I am trying to figure out how to backup my Samsung media player play list. Every time I flash a new ROM I loose my custom play list and have to redo it which is quite the pain.
I have tried creating a play list in Windows media player and syncing it to the phone along with my music. It copies over the play list file but media player does not recognize it. And I can not manually open the file.
I have also tried backing up the [PLAYLIST] Media Storage 21. and 2.2 in titanium backup. When restored it does not bring back the custom play list that I created.
I also poked around the file system and cant seem to find where Samsung stores the play list files at. Hoping that maybe someone else has had luck figuring this out. I have had this problem with stock, and cognition 1 and 2.2 ROM's.
Thanks in advance,
I haven't used it, but doubleTwist is something I recommended you look into.
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FFJASON1 said:
I am trying to figure out how to backup my Samsung media player play list. Every time I flash a new ROM I loose my custom play list and have to redo it which is quite the pain.
I have tried creating a play list in Windows media player and syncing it to the phone along with my music. It copies over the play list file but media player does not recognize it. And I can not manually open the file.
I have also tried backing up the [PLAYLIST] Media Storage 21. and 2.2 in titanium backup. When restored it does not bring back the custom play list that I created.
I also poked around the file system and cant seem to find where Samsung stores the play list files at. Hoping that maybe someone else has had luck figuring this out. I have had this problem with stock, and cognition 1 and 2.2 ROM's.
Thanks in advance,
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I posted in one of the captivate forums - the playlists are stored in one of the databases - all music and media is listed in the data base and each playlist is stored in a table in the DB file.
The media scanner builds the DB and it includes the path to all the media. It should be possible to right a db script to build your own playlist or recreate one, but i have not had the time to look into it.
As for doubletwist - i found it very buggy, and more invasive then iTunes.
Thanks for the suggestion on double twist. I have read a little about it but was hoping to avoid a third party solution. I really like the native Samsung media player if I could only backup the play list.
I'll see if and how double twist works out. Does anyone know how to write a app / script to backup the play list file? That is way beyond my skills.

Disappearing Playlists

Has anyone noticed any issues where sync'd playlists just randomly disappear from the phone? I have tried iSyncr and Tunesync and both work well for getting my iTunes lists over to the phone, but lately every couple days the lists are just gone, files removed from SDcard. All the music and album are is there, but the playlists themselves are missing.
I use both the PowerAmp beta and the WinAmp beta as my players of choice. I am running one of the Cognition 2.2beta9.x releases. The most unusual thing is the stock player is still showing the playlists accurately.
My two thoughts are either the stock player is "importing" the playlists and for some reason removing the files or there is something wrong with the WinAmp beta that caused them to delete. I have just uninstalled winamp and will wait and see if it happens again, but thought I would ask if anyone else has seen this behavior.
Thanks.
I have same problem. Galaxy S Fascinate (Telus) - I'd synchronize my m3u playlists using media monkey. File manager would show that all playlists were present and MediaMonkey would "see" and play all songs within every playlist. But after removing phone (safely) the Music Player would only see a small subset of the number of playlists. Android File Manager would also only show the same small subset. All the rest had disappeared!
I discovered a workaround - Create 2nd Backup folder for Playlists. Create a .nomedia file in the backup folder. Copy all Playlists into Backup folder while hooked up to PC. When unhooked, see which playlists are missing and copy them from Backup folder to Playlist folder. They stick around now.

Song in the playlist gone after restarting

Hello everyone!
Need help on something - all the songs on my playlist are gone after I reboot my phone. What's causing it? is it the memory card?
bronxdude said:
Hello everyone!
Need help on something - all the songs on my playlist are gone after I reboot my phone. What's causing it? is it the memory card?
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I've had enough of playlists randomly disappearing all the time. It's usually caused either by Music folder (Or wherever you place your music files on your sd card) being renamed/removed/moved and you can't exactly get the playlist working again.
My advice for you to prevent this from happening in the future is to manage your playlists and sync your media stuff with Sony's Media Go. It's really handy and if you lose your playlists again, you can simple resync with your phone and all your playlists are back again
Hopefully you remember your playlist order, I have many playlists and it's always a pain to remember what order they went
ZeroInfinity - thanks man! I guess I really have to know how media go works. I really am at loss how syncing works as I always do drag-n-drop my songs, plus im used to the a200 SE phones that has folder support, so I just group them per forlder.. i have 700 songs, and its really a pain in the S doing stuff all over again. hahaha!

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