realquiet

Yes I am going to redo the list using your second option as I do want to retain the song order. Those options are both great advice! I'm so glad you recommended them. I have been using Poweramp since 2010 on the original Droid (with the slide out keyboard). Every time I upgraded phones I would get out my printed screen shots of my ever growing playlist and manually make a new list. It would take about 4 hours. The first time I learned I was able to just transfer my playlist was on my last S9+. I really didn't want to do it again and you helped solve the problem and taught me a few things here so I wont ever have too. I actually took screen shots of your solution and the playlist redo advise and emailed it to myself. Thanks again and I really do appreciate it! realquiet

Thank you Andre! That was the trick. I just put the mp3s back into a folder called "Music" inside of "Music X". I should have posted the playlist in text editor in the beginning it would have saved you a lot of time. Thank you for showing me how this works, Yes I should have started the playlist originally in folder called Singles. I can see how this can be another future problem if SD cards come back to phones and I put my entire collection on the phone. I'm wondering if i should fix this now (redoing the playlist) or deal with it later. Thanks again realquiet

Thank you Andre for continuing to help. I just tried phone to phone copy of the M3U8 file and did the full playlist back up, but only imported the playlist. Doing a full re-scan each time. No success. By the way this playlist is my singles and not full albums. I just grabbed songs from my computer and put them in a folder on the phone. When using Poweramp to play them I have full album art and artist titles everything. I notice in this screenshot that artist and album is missing.

I tried to put only the M3U8 file in my playlist folder and allowed power amp access to it but it still did not work. I have been trying to re export the playlist from the old phone but where ever I set the target folder I cant find it in there. The only place I can find it is in android/data/com.maxmpz.audioplayer/files/playlist. I did use this method before on my old phone S9+ and it worked. I think I'm doing something wrong exporting the play list. Here are a few screen shots of what they look like saved on my computer and the last one is how it looks on the new phone. I don't know how to put the play list into text.

I believe the the vlc files are the M3U8 files. My computer just tags them as vlc. As to the first level of containing folder I did put the mp3s in a new folder called "Music X" vs the old phones sd card folder "Music" to avoid using the Samsung dedicated Music folder. I'm sorry I'm not that tech savvy. Is the Music X the first level containing folder?

Yes this is only for the Playlist. The all music is perfect. Another thing I did when transferring from old phone is I grabbed the exported playlist/backup file from the download folder where Poweramp put it and also went deep into android/data/maxmp and grabbed what I think is a .pla file. So in my new phone in the "Playlists" storage folder I have a playlist .pla file, a playlist vlc file, and the playlist backup file I created. When setting up new phone I tell Poweramp to look in "Music X" and "Playlists". So I figured Poweramp will look in "playlists" and grab one of the 3 that it chooses as I don't know which one it wants. This might be where the issue is?

Hello Andre, Thank you but it still did not work. It just shows the rip screen and the song title.mp3. And says cannot play storage unmounted. Also I should mention There is no album art or artist/album only song title. I just uninstalled app and reinstalled and tried your method. I did not import. In playlist it sees the list but only shows rip logo and once inside it shows rip logo for each song title. Thanks

Hello, So I am upgrading from Samsung S9+ to Samsung S23 Ultra and ran into a problem with my Playlist. Once I had everything manually transferred and set up on the S23 I can see and play all of my songs but in playlist I only see the song names that wont play on the rip logo. Device says "cannot play storage unmounted". On the S9 my MP3s were on an SD card and on the S23 there is no SD card only internal storage. I exported my playlist on the S9 and put theme in a folder called "playlists" on the S23. I moved my MP3s from S9 SD card folder "Music" to S23 internal folder called "Music X". In my research last night I think I saw Andre say that that the MP3 folder must be named the same on the new phone? Then again I believe I saw Andre say he recommends not using Samsung's internal dedicated "Music" folder but rather create your own folder. Hence my "Music X" folder. Thank you in advance for the help, this is driving me crazy. realquiet