Icharius Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Hi I don't know if this a bug or something else, but everytime I format the external card and recopy every song, the playlist become emptied. The last time I attempted to export them first then proceeded to delete them from PAP and reinstalled the app, the songs are there and are read by the app, the playlists cannot be imported again and even if the folders are selected and did a full scan the playlists now doesn't reappear in PAP. Playlist are in format m3u8 and pla Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingdutchman Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 When you delete music and reinstall it, Poweramp and android will rescan your device. Pa will rebuild its internal database with the tracks it finds. Even if you copied the tracks back in the same location, pa will treat these as new tracks and reassign new internal keys to each track in its database. Your old pa internal playlist are therefore no longer valid. However, exported m3u playlists are external to pa and android and hold the fully qualified path to the track. Assuming you copied your music in the same location, pa will be able to play these. In the case where you copied your music to a different location, pa is able to import the m3u playlists, it will create a new internal playlist with the same name. My app New Playlist Manager (inspired by pa) also has this import capability Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icharius Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 Thanks for the explanation I have/had 63 playlists and currently using a 32gb card partitioned with Aparted and used as internal memory aswell with link2sd. Therefore I am pronned to reformat the card every now and then and I need a permanent solution or workaround for this. I understand that m3u will work, but PA exported the playlist to m3u8. Will your app work with this format as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingdutchman Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 M3u and m3u8 are essentially the same thing. It may be a good idea to reboot your device after a recopy so that both android and pa can complete a rescan.Ps my app creates native android playlists which you then export to m3u format to play with pa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icharius Posted November 23, 2015 Author Share Posted November 23, 2015 Thanks for your promptly responses. Please link me your app so I can check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 If you remove the card with the device off, and do not reboot until you have re-inserted the refreshed card, you might get away with it (depending on whether the copying program that you use maintains all of the file's time/date stamp information). However as Theoklink points out, they could be treated as new songs if Poweramp thinks they are fresh files with the same name. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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