Allow Playlists Without Adding to Main Library

[trojanv]

The Shuttle android music player had  this (unintentional?) feature where if you blacklisted the folder where the songs are located (i.e don't add it to the library), the .m3u file was picked up by the player so that it would create a playlist within the player but the songs wouldn't show up while scrolling through the main library. This was really useful since you could just shuffle the main library without having songs in those other playlists show up. 

Songs in the .m3u file don't get recognized in Poweramp unless those songs are added to the Poweramp library. I know the solution would just be to create a playlist of the main library, but the point is to not have those playlist songs show up in the library.

So would it be possible to have Poweramp detect playlists without having to add the songs folder to the library?

[andrewilley]

Poweramp will detect and load any .M3U Playlists as long as they are within folders that it has been allowed to scan.

However to be accessible, any music files listed within the M3U files must already be present in PA's music database and will be treated as pointers to those entries.

Andre