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  1. I'm fairly much sorted on this now, playlists are copied over to the PC and also stored on an external hard drive. The playlist names displayed in Poweramp I've resolved by deleting the M3U8 versions. The imported test playlist names I fixed by selecting all the tracks in it, setting a new playlist up with them that I can name as I wish & deleting the imported playlist with the M3U8 title. I've not looked again at opening the playlists in the PC, there's no player in the PC other than that stock Windows. I don't intend to listen to music with it, just to use it to load music to the phone really. If I do need to use the playlists on the PC I'll sort it then. Thanks for the help.
  2. I've had a go at this tonight. I used Export in Settings-Library-Playlist, then searched in the music section of the phone's SD card from the computer. I found the playlists located after all the music files as an individual for for each playlist. Before exporting I added 3 new playlists as a test, after exporting I deleted the first of these from my phone then copied it back from the computer into the SD card. After a rescan it was back & the tracks in it play as they should. So that's great, I can now save a backup of my playlists. There are a few glitches it would be desirable to sort out if it's not too difficult? After exporting the playlists in Poweramp itself are duplicated with an M3U8 version of each, I'm thinking I can just delete them? The test playlist has M3U8 in the title & I don't seem to be able to take it out. I can't open the files in the computer & see the tracks in them. I can see they've got content as I can see they're different sizes, the longer playlists are as you'd expect bigger files& the shorter ones are smaller. I'm thinking as stated in the solution post above these files are written by the Android system & the Windows PC can't read them as they are. I'm thinking this isn't really a problem for me, I'm just wanting a backup just incase something happens to my phone rather than use these playlists on the PC itself. Thanks for assistance, I do appreciate this is fairly simple stuff & the big problem is my leech of experience in computers etc. But there must be a good few like myself, would it be an idea to have guide to doing this in FAQ?
  3. Thanks for the reply, some of that almost ruffled my hair as it flew over my head! I've got an awful log to learn about computer code. So to get these M3u8 playlist files to the computer do I create them first by going to settings in the app & using export then plug the phone into the PC & search the phone & SD card using the computer do I can copy them back into the PC?
  4. Hi folks, I'm fairly new to Poweramp and it must be said much more of a fan of music than I am computers, tech etc. I've good a good few playlists that I'm building up and would hate to lose them & need to start again. I've got a LOT of music! I've been searching on here for information on how to back them up or save them to something outside the phone such as a PC, USB stick etc so they may be transferred to a new phone should mine be lost or damaged. I've found a few threads on exporting playlists and making them M3u8 files but to be honest I'm just not understanding it, for starters I don't know what an M3u8 file is! If there's a beginners guide to this a link to it would be great, I've looked through FAQ and found help for a couple other things but not for this. I do understand a playlist isn't the song files themselves but just a list of the tracks. Do I connect my phone to the PC then use it to search for the playlist on the phone? Do I need to do the export thing first do the playlist is visible to the PC? If this sounds like I'm hopelessly clueless then there could be a straightforward explanation for that..... But I have managed to rip a lot of music from CDs into Flac on the PC, convert them to mp3 & load them onto my phone. I've used the PC to edit & rename erroneous & duplicate music files in the phone. If it matters my phone is nothing fancy, Motorola G7 power on Android 10 with an SD card that music files are on & my PC is I think Windows 10. Thanks for any help.
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