Recursive Folder Play

[maxmp]

I can’t reproduce any issues with playback button in build 852.

[andrewilley]

On 10/29/2019 at 12:19 AM, andrewilley said:

For example, if I am viewing the subfolders contained within /MusicFolders/50 Music/ and I tap on the Play icon at the top of the screen, it works as expected and I start hearing the contents of the first folder in that displayed list (which would be /MusicFolders/50 Music/10cc/*.mp3 in this case). However if I drill down one layer further - for example into /MusicFolders/50 Music/Adele/ - then when I tap on the Play icon (expecting to hear the songs  /MusicFolders/50 Music/Adele/21/*.mp3 and then /MusicFolders/50 Music/Adele/25/*.mp3 ), Poweramp instead starts playing the contents of some higher level folder, in this case the songs in /MusicFolders/50 Music/[Songs]/*.mp3 .

The above Play button functionality within nested folders is still not working for me for build 853.

I've checked @Squeller's post ( https://forum.powerampapp.com/topic/17860-recursive-folder-play/?do=findComment&comment=79379 ) and I tried renaming my Adele folder to 1 Adele as a test, and the Play button then worked correctly inside it, playing the subfolders 21 and 25 in order as expected, so he does seem to have hit upon the problem.

 

With regards to sorting, when in Folders Hierarchy and using By Filename sorting, drilling down into 50 Music I still still see the following folder order, whereas I would expect to be seeing the [Songs] folder at the end of the list.

10cc
[Songs]
ABC
Adele
(...etc...etc... down to...)
War of the Worlds

My naming logic in Folders mode is to use folder names starting with regular parentheses "(" when I want to push an item to the front of a list - i.e. before numeric and alphabetic folder names - and square brackets "[" to push something after the end of the main alpha list. As shown above, Folders Hierarchy is still not working that way. I don't use any lower-case folder names by the way.

Andre

[Squeller]

On 11/7/2019 at 6:06 PM, maxmp said:

I can’t reproduce any issues with playback button in build 852.

It's still exactly as I described. Have a folder "Hello" with subfolders in it and a folder "00" beside the Hello folder. Go into Hello, press play and it plays 00 contents instead Hello subfolders. 

[Squeller]

I will rename all folders and subfolders to lowercase, ugly, but I hope it works. Will report back. 

[Squeller]

5 hours ago, Squeller said:

I will rename all folders and subfolders to lowercase, ugly, but I hope it works. Will report back. 

Don't do it, it's not worth it. a) Still weird playback, b) TotalCommander Android fails at some point, c) now I have 50 percent lowercase folders, ugly. I accept the button to not work. 

[Squeller]

Still broken.

[andrewilley]

I've checked, and yes this issue still appears to be present in latest build.

@maxmp it seems to be related to situations where some containing folder names start with either uppercase letters and/or numbers (it's a bit hard to be 100% certain). To demonstrate, a simplification of the folder structure that I have which causes it is as follows (obviously there are lots more folders and files, but this structure should suffice for testing):

/MusicFolders/
    50 Music/
        [Songs]/
            FirstSong.mp3
            SecondSong.mp3
            MoreSongs.mp3
        Adele/
            19/
                01-Adele19Song.mp3
                02-AnotherAdele19 Song.mp3
                03-MoreAdele19Songs.mp3
            21/
                01-Adele21Song.mp3
                02-AnotherAdele21Song.mp3
                03-MoreAdele21Songs.mp3
            25/
                01-Adele25Song.mp3
                02-AnotherAdele25Song.mp3
                03-MoreAdele25Songs.mp3
 

In Folders Hierarchy mode, drill down mode into the Adele folder so you can see its subfolders (19, 21 and 25) and tap the Play icon. What you would expect is for all of the songs in the album 19 to play, then 21 and 25. What actually happens is the first track in the [Songs] folder starts playing, and that folder continues.

Andre

[maxmp]

@andrewilley thanks for the details, I will try to test and reproduce this shortly.

PS Fixed for the next build.

[andrewilley]

Thanks Max, working fine in build 860 for my test case of the Adele subfolders.

@Squeller - are your example cases working in 860 too?

Andre