DemoD Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 Running Poweramp on a Android 6.0.1 and noticed that when I create playlists within Poweramp, they are not visible in other apps like Sonos. Tried the export setting but that does not work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingdutchman Posted September 20, 2016 Share Posted September 20, 2016 Poweramp does create playlists in its own database so yes, you do not see these with other apps. However, Poweramp allows you to export the playlists as .m3u files which are picked up by other music apps. .m3u is an accepted standard for playlists. Have a look at my app New Playlist Manager which has a lot of integration with Poweramp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 Poweramp's Export Playlists feature uses the .M3U8 extension (for UTF-8 character-encoded files). If that is not picked up by your other apps, changing the file to simply ASCII text .M3U Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elusive Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 On 09/21/2016 at 5:29 PM, andrewilley said: Poweramp's Export Playlists feature uses the .M3U8 extension (for UTF-8 character-encoded files). If that is not picked up by your other apps, changing the file to simply ASCII text .M3U Andre How to do that? Poweramp only export .m3u8 playlist and apparently simply rename them to .m3u doesn't work. Is there any methods to change file to ASCⅡ .m3u? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrewilley Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 The only difference between M3U and M3U8 is that the latter uses a larger Unicode character set (called UTF-8) rather than the original, but rather more limited, ASCII set. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U for more info. In many cases you can simply change the file extension, but otherwise if Unicode text is not supported by your other apps for some reason, just cut and paste the contents into a text editor and re-save it as a regular ASCII .M3U file. The content should be lines of plain text either way, but the ASCII version will not support as many international characters, etc. The actual format can be really simple, just a long list of paths to your song files, e.g:/storage/extSdCard/MusicFolders/Singles/Find My Love - Fairground Attraction.mp3 /storage/extSdCard/MusicFolders/Singles/Fire with Fire - Scissor Sisters.mp3 /storage/extSdCard/MusicFolders/Singles/Fireflies - Owl City.mp3 /storage/extSdCard/MusicFolders/Singles/Get Lucky - Daft Punk feat Pharrell and Nile Rodgers.mp3 If you want to make your paths 'relative' (i.e. more portable) you can remove some or all of the initial path information, but you must then place the actual M3U file in an appropriate location so it can find the files as per their new descriptions. e.g. I could save the above playlist within my 'MusicFolders' folder, and change the individual entries to:Singles/Find My Love - Fairground Attraction.mp3 Singles/Fire with Fire - Scissor Sisters.mp3 Singles/Fireflies - Owl City.mp3 Singles/Get Lucky - Daft Punk feat Pharrell and Nile Rodgers.mp3 By default, Poweramp uses the full absolute paths (first example), which should work wherever the playlist file is saved on a device - just as long as you don't change the specific folder locations that the music files are stored in. Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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