[Q] Playlist sync? - Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hi guys
i love android, but the one thing i hate is that i cant backup or sync my playlists after flashing a new ROM
ive read about on the forums and searched google, got isyncr and tried that, it worked but it duplicated my songs that were in my itunes playlist.
i have all of my music in my sd card organised under seperate artists, isyncr has saved the music from my itunes playlist into isyncr folder on my sd card and so 2 of each song shows up in music player
i was wondering if its possible to just copy a playlist across without taking the songs with it? i already have the songs on my sd card.

h3dshot said:
hi guys
i love android, but the one thing i hate is that i cant backup or sync my playlists after flashing a new ROM
ive read about on the forums and searched google, got isyncr and tried that, it worked but it duplicated my songs that were in my itunes playlist.
i have all of my music in my sd card organised under seperate artists, isyncr has saved the music from my itunes playlist into isyncr folder on my sd card and so 2 of each song shows up in music player
i was wondering if its possible to just copy a playlist across without taking the songs with it? i already have the songs on my sd card.
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UPDATE: ok disregard all of that i figured out how to do it, for anyone who wants to know, download the app from market or google it if you dont wanna pay install it on your sd then connect to pc, choose the application on sd, select playlist, click sync, once its synced go back to your sd, delete all of the music in isyncr folder and copy the playlist files (.m3u and .plb) and just paste those into your music folder. job done, it should now show up in your playlists

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Duplicate Songs

Hey guys,
I went to play some music on my phone today and i have every song twice.
I am using Cyan 4.04 and HTC music. both songs acording to the player are sitting in the same place.
I just tried deleting all songs off my SD and rebooting but no go. The songs still appear in HTC music but now i can play any of the cos they arent on the SD card to play.
Anyone else seen this or know of where the data file for HTC music is kept so i can delete.
Thanks guys
I did a couple of searches for duplicates but with no avail
Cheers
I'm having same problem. All songs have duplicates. But there is only one actual audio file in the music folder. I have my music stored on '/My Storage/Music/Artist/Album/Songs.mp3'.
I tried deleting the files in the HTC/AudioManager folder (music.vol & cache files, then restarted) but didn't help.
And on a separate note, should I be able to flip through multiple albums on the Music tab home screen, or just the songs from the current album? I can only flip through the songs from one album, then have to use the Library to find another. And am I stuck having songs listed alphabetically instead of album order?
Anyone track down any answers for this one? Really would like to get Audio Manager working properly.
THANKS!

[Q] What Playlists formats are supported by Samsung Galaxy S music player?

Hello Everyone,
sorry if it has already been discussed before, i really searched for this in the forum, couldn't find it.
Does anyone know what playlist formats are supported by the Samsung music player in Galaxy S?
it doesn't support .m3u whereas many other music players ( in the market) support this!
there is nothing as visually pleasing and comfortable as the samsung music player (Things should change with Gingerbread)
Also, can we use the default android 2.2 music player in an .apk in 2.1 galaxy s?
why i am asking for this is, its a big pain for manually adding the playlist in the phone. there should be some way to create the playlist in the computer and sync both playlist as well as songs to galaxy s.
i have tried isyncr , media mokey and double twist, nothing works!!
I have found a dirty tiresome work around for this.
This is for guys who have 100s of songs with playlists sitting on either itunes or windows media player!!!!
Sync each playlist from computer (i do from windows media player), select all the songs visible in the phone and create a playlist.
open the playlist tab in the Samsung music player -> edit the recently added playlist (default one) and clear the songs.
Sync again with a different playlist and select the songs in the recently added playlist (newly synced songs will be here now). manually select all the songs here to create a new one.
I saw Btunes music player and few others to provide support for .m3u playlists along with nice lock screen music controls.
btunes is the only slick player apart from samsung player to provide iphone style music player.
I've been fighting and fighting with this for 3 days straight now. I really like the music player and want to use but lack of "normal" playlist support is killing me. I even created a playlist so I could take a look at the file but I can't find it. Where the heck does it store it's own playlist files??
Hi guys,
I have no idea where the playlist files are saved.
Community help is needed badly for the list of supported playlist formats.
worst case, we have to manually make the playlists the hard way.
From "Unoficial Samsung Galaxy S Facebook":
Samsung Galaxy S You can use your Windows Media Player 12 to transfer your Playlist and song to your Galaxy S. This is good because WMP's Playlist also readable with original player.
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I don't have Windows so I can't confirm if this method is working on our Galaxy. But I hope that there is a way to convert m3u playlists to wmp12 playlists anyway if that's true.
If you connect your Galaxy S in MTP mode, it will sync playlists from Windows Media Player.
I remember that my playlists used to sync but then I wiped my days and forget how to do this...will try again tonight using the method you suggest. Thanks!
solution
for playlists use isyncr to sync..................it had synced all my playlists to the galaxy s music player from itunes
dont know where they are stored but titanium backup can backup and restore them
Well, I tried titanium 3.5.0 backed up a playlist I created in sgs, then I deleted it from the stock music player and from music playerpro (I don't know why didn't delted from teh other when I deleted from the first one), then made a restore playlist with titanium, but there are no media at all in the playlist. I really would like to know how can I backup the playlists. At least until we get a good froyo rom
Turns out the playlist is in xml format. I exported a playlist from iTunes in xml format and dumped it into the galaxy s SD card and boom! it shows up in the stock music player!
xml did not work for me?
After attempted the suggested method above, by:
1) Connected to windows vista on my laptop in usb mass storage mode
2) Exported two playlists in xml format using itunes
3) Copied them to the "sdcard/Music/Playlists" folder
They were not visible in the stock Music Player in my Galaxy S vibrant with the eclair.uvji2 update. If it is of interest, I did sync the files using Windows Media Player. However, both wmp and itunes are using the same file structure, playlists and id3 tags.
syncing with windows media player does not give the playlists...
using playlist creator, i created m3u playlists copied the mp3s and m3u to the music folder and it works...but it's gonna be tedious...
Edit:
FLAC (done manually...)
1. Drag flac files to Playlist creator to create m3u
2. Copy and paste the m3u and the flac files into a folder manually
3. (app to properly read FLAC tags) Download extended media scanner
Mp3s (Since I don't like using itunes and I use WMP instead)
1. Create a lot of playlists in windows media player
2. Import over to doubletwist on PC
3. (Not sure if you need this step but even if you do, there's no need to touch it after installation)) Install isync on your phone '
4. Connect your phone on mass storage
5. Sync the selected playlists on your doubletwist with phone, playlists will all appear in native player.
All these done without using itunes Although technically, doubletwist is based on itunes =X
you are wrong i have manually put the .m3u files on a newly flashed phone which has the songs on my sd card.. it does not work..
lgkahn said:
you are wrong i have manually put the .m3u files on a newly flashed phone which has the songs on my sd card.. it does not work..
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I guess it is program dependent, the m3u created by playlist creator works while those by wmp 12 didn't work.
And oh, might want to try install isync
Lobaba said:
I guess it is program dependent, the m3u created by playlist creator works while those by wmp 12 didn't work.
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Why don't you post the contents of one of your m3u files that works?
Ok, I tested with and without isync and looks like isync is required for galaxy s to recognise the m3u
can someone give this a shot so that the default music player can read m3u playlists? Method 1 has worked for me so far on 2.1 while I'm trying it out on 2.2
Method 1
FLAC and mp3s (done manually...)
1. Install iSyncR
2. Drag flac/mp3 files to Playlist creator to create m3u
3. Copy and paste the m3u and the flac/mp3 files into a folder manually
4. (app to properly read FLAC tags) Download extended media scanner
Method 2
Mp3s (Since I don't like using itunes and I use WMP instead)
1. Install isync on your phone
2. Create a lot of playlists in windows media player
3. Import over to doubletwist on PC
4. Connect your phone on mass storage
5. Sync the selected playlists on your doubletwist with phone, playlists will all appear in native player.
Use a m3u in combinaison with a playlist copier
My reply may come a bit late, but hopefully it can still be useful. I've discovered a freeware yesterday, called Amok playlist copy, which run super nicely. For those who used or use Itunes, it permit you to select all the song from a playlist, and copy them automatically to a folder ( then you can send it to your phone), along with the associated m3u playlist.
You have to drop the playlist file into the directory media/playlist on your android phone ( mine is SGS-1), and then you can drop all the associated music file in a folder, either on your phone or sd card ( you can also add subfolder as far as i know, without any problem). That way, you don't have to you use Itunes for fast transferring of every song in your list. Actually, i'll keep using something lighter, like VLC to do the job, after I realized that only Itunes seems to be able to copy the original files to clipboard.
As I said, the software is freeware, and i don't know of any other similar alternatives. Would be nice to stumble upon an open-source alternative.

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.

Media list reset?

Hi,
Tried googling about my really ANNOYING problem. My Music app or Winamp no matter which one since they all use the same Media "List" from android gets totally messed up.
Ie, if I want to go see Albums, It makes a "Album" in the list of each song in the Album. So if I want to listen to a Album I choose a Album from the List but It just contains One(1) song which is in that Album.
I cleared data for Music and Winamp and used Dev Tools Media scanner with no luck. Any tips?
I would try removing all the music on your SD card and recopying it. (If you have a card reader I would use that because it will be much faster then via usb)

Playlists on MSD card disappear when phone is rebooted

Playlists on MicroSD card disappearing from all media players when phone is rebooted.​
I make all my music playlists in WPM 11, Winamp ETC, and sync them to my phone's MSD card.
When i reboot the phone the playlists don't go blank, they disappear entirely from my media players through out the phone.
The playlists folder on the SD card still contain the physical .pls files, but they don't appear in any media player.
I have to resync all my playlists everytime i reboot my phone. The music itself is still physically there and the media players all still see the music, its the damn playlists.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards and thanks.
I know this is a well known problem, it use to happen on my GS3 but not every reboot. Once in a while maybe. This is really frustrating.​

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