ThomasMP3

Thanks, your feedback helped and I am able to sync playlists. I have one more question: Does Poweramp look at the extension on playlist tracks, or just the name of the track? I have built extensive playlists, and I am starting to update my library with by replacing older MP3 tracks with high-quality OGG or FLAC tracks. The main filename and internal tag information is otherwise identical. Will Poweramp find these tracks in a playlist based on the first part of the filename, or will I need to refresh the playlists to show the new filename+extention ?

Thank you, these links and suggestions helped! Ultimately, what worked best for me was to make the playlist with VLC, open the playlist file with Notepad, and then run a Find & Replace. I replace "d:\Music" with "24FE-E170/Music" on the whole file (literally instantaneous), and then save the file. Once the playlist is copied over to my Android, Poweramp reads it just fine. To anyone else, yes check those links first, that helped me a lot.

So my music folder layout on Windows is: d:\music\many folders and files When I copy/sync my music to my phone's SD card, I grab the contents of the \music folder and copy it over to the SD card, inside its Music folder. I would like to be able build playlists at home on the PC, saving these playlists to d:\music\playlists\playlistname.m3u so that when it all gets copied over to my phone, the playlists still work. Unfortunately, VLC saves its M3U playlists with an absolute file location, i.e. "d:\music\BandName\AlbumName\song.mp3" and so Poweramp can't find that on the android. What's the best way I can create a playlist on the PC with the root being \music and not d:\music, so that Poweramp can find the files? Or, alternatively, am I just not doing it correctly? Is there a setting I need to modify on Poweramp? I just find it so much easier to build extensive playlists while sitting at my computer than while on my phone.

I have a large collection and I just hit that 25 limit. I use "&" and lot, because many band names use it officially ("Seals & Croft" - "Crosby, Stills & Nash" - "Earth, Wind & Fire") while others officially use "and" in their name ("Bruce Hornsby and The Range" - "Glen Miller and His Orchestra"). However, "&" is also the preferred method to split collaborative artists, such as "Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson". So, yeah I just hit that 25 limit to tagging artist names to unsplit. This should maybe be upped to 50.

Beautiful, thanks @andrewilley and @Fitzian !!

@andrewilley Thanks, I think I understand now. I appreciate the link to the shuffle information, that helps. So I have one other question about song selection to be shuffled. Is there a way I can select songs from, for example, the "Soft Rock" genre, with tracks from the years between "1975" and "1985", and add those to a playlist or cue, to be shuffled around? Or how about "Alternative Rock" but only the years "1992" through "2005", essentially making a classic Alt-Rock radio station?

Yes, they are just random singles inside the genre folder. If Poweramp then selects a track inside a "complete album" folder (which is a sub-folder within the genre folder) it gets stuck in there until all the tracks are played. That makes perfect sense, I agree, Poweramp may be treating each single as a one-track album, and thus when it hits a multi-track album it wants to play the full album before progressing. Yep, I made sure I'm on "Category and songs" for the shuffle mode. I played with the randomness slider as well. The problem still persists: Poweramp gets stuck inside album folders and won't advance until all the tracks have been played. I feel confident that it's not a bug, but rather a bad setting. Any other suggestions..anyone?

So, I love the idea of shuffling music. I select a track to listen to, and if I forget to select something else before the end of the track, it just picks something else for me. I love it! It's like listening to the radio, you never really know what's coming next. However, I do notice that the player might make 5-6 completely random song choices, then it gets stuck in a single album and won't advance to something different until it goes through every song in the album. Then, it may jump to another album and go through all of those tracks, before giving me 4-5 more completely random tracks. Maybe it has something to do with how I store my files? My music is sorted into folders like "Pop", "Rock", "Punk", "Heavy Metal", "Country", etc. Inside those folders are a hundreds of tracks for that genre. However there are also folders holding complete albums, inside of these genre folders. So like, in the "80's Pop" folder are hundreds of singles from the 80's, but there are also folders of complete albums like "Michael Jackson - Thriller" and "Madonna - True Blue", etc. Does this have anything to do with why Poweramp is getting stick inside albums?

Thank you!! Love your app!

Just started using Poweramp and I like it, but there is one feature that I discovered is missing. So in the genre field, we can have multiple genres per track, separated by a semicolon [ ; ]. This is extremely helpful since many tracks span different genres, and single tracks can show up under multiple genre categories. So I *assumed* this was with every field, and I spent many, many evenings adding semicolons to composer, album artist, and artist fields. But of course, this does not work like that. A great example would be any track by the Beatles: under album artist, I have listed each band member separated by a semicolon. So when I click on "Paul McCartney" as an album artist, I should see all his work, including with the Beatles, not just his solo stuff. Another example is the Composer field. Many tracks have quite a few producers and composer credits. Each name should be separated by a semicolon and indexed that way, so that if I am curious what other tracks a particular producer worked on, that would be easily found by clicking their name. As it is now, the composer category is indexed just how it is typed in the Composer field, so it may be a big long string of names, rather than each name indexed independently.