Yukusoona

Yes, that has been exactly the case so far. I must admit that since my last post I have not encountered this problem any more. I will keep you informed as soon as something goes wrong again.

@MotleyG Thank you for this advice. I'll keep this definitely in mind but must admit that right now I don't have the time (nor do I have another SD card) to switch/reinstall etc. My SD card is 64 GB and I bought it new with my Samsung S9 (about 2 years ago). So far, I have not had any other issues with my SD card. It is, by the way, encrypted (as offered by Samsung S9). But the encryption, too, has never caused any problems so far.

@andrewilley Exactly! The shortcut works so far. But soon it will stop working. I will try to find out whether a specific operation/action/incident precedes the malfunctioning of the shortcut. Afterwards I will be back to let you know.

@MotleyG No, unfortunately not. I know what you are talking about, but it's not the problem in my case. First of all, I belong to those persons who do not switch their phones off at any time. I'd rather go into plane mode at nights but keep the phone on. So, my problems exist irrespective of reboots. Secondly, I have just made the test: I have created a new shortcut to a playlist on my home screen. It works fine. I have then rebooted by phone and voilà: the shortcut still works. In other words, the playlists lose their "connectivity" to my songs for another reason (not related to reboots). Legacy mode is switched off in my Poweramp. "Auto scan mode" is also switched off. I have remounted my music folders: my main storage and the SD card are both completely accessible to Poweramp. I have granted Poweramp the special rights to use my SD card. Honestly, I don't really know what else to try out...

@princestark I am not sure to which previous post you are referring to?

"Legacy mode" was switched off in my case. I use Android 10 by the way. So all in all this does not seem to by the problem in my case, does it? I have found another nuance of my problem: When I create a shortcut to a playlist on my android home screen (via widget), it would work for a while. But after 1 day or so tapping on the playlist widget would open Poweramp only but not start the playlist. However, when I open the same playlist from within Poweramp, it would start correctly. Thus, I get the impression that Poweramp loses connectivity to my songs and that somehow it regains it, which is why the playlist within Poweramp would continue working. But the shortcut on my home screen would keep the "lost connectivity", which is why it would not work. Still, there are times where even my playlists within Poweramp get corrupt and stop working (as mentioned in my first post). All in all, this makes me quite sad because I like Poweramp, I have got used to it but need to rely on my music software...

No, as far as I remember, it has never happened within sessions. Problems only occur when I start Poweramp in order to listen to music. Do you have any idea? What is it about this "Samsung issue"? Anyway, was means it has been already fixed and should not be the causative problem?

Dear Forum, I am not sure what I am doing wrong to get the following problem. Every now and then Poweramp loses its connection from listed songs to actual mp3 files. I have all mp3 files on my external memory card in my smartphone. Whenever the problem appears, Poweramp would act as if all songs listed in Poweramp had been deleted. If I try to play "all songs" in random order e.g., Poweramp would skip all songs from my music folder and rather play some voice recordings (which are in internal memory). I then have to rescan my library and afterwards everything works fine again. I know there is an option "auto-scan" but in my case it does not work very well because I tend to get automated rescans whenever I want to listen to some music (and rescans take some time...). Anyway, if I do not change anything in my music folder, why rescans? There is another issue, probably related to the above-mentioned one: I have created a playlist and planted a shortcut to it on my home screen (via widget => playlist 1 x 1). After a few days this shortcut loses its functionality. All my songs in Poweramp work fine but when I tap on the playlist widget, nothing would happen. Just as if this playlist was empty (which is not the case). I assume, all this has something to do with the fact that my songs are stored on external storage. But what causes this problem? And how could I fix this issue? Thank you very much for you advice! Yukusoona Poweramp build-911-arm64-play Full Version 64 bit Samsung Galaxy S9 (SM-G960F), Android-Version 10 (no Root)