Hey Guys,
So I'm using the latest version of poweramp on my s3. On the older version I'd had on my s1 I was able to import a playlist that I emailed to myself (probably exported from itunes or something) and it showed up as a file based playlist within poweramp and worked fine.
In the latest version on my new phone I am trying to do the same thing but I can't seem to do so. I go to import playlist but it seems to only try and import a system based playlist (I assuming it's looking in my stock music app) and doesn't give me the option to import a file based one as before.
Does anyone know of a work around, or am I doing something wrong? I hate to say I really don't feel like having to re-establish my playlists from scratch?
Or, if I can import it into my stock music app and then into poweramp? I don't use samsung kies at all.
Go to music folders , then tick " Playlists" and it should do the thing. Its working for me at least.
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Hey guys,
I've got an odd problem with samsung stock music player on my note 10.1.
Every playlist I add to the device is (dis)played upside down. At first i suspected isyncr, which i use to sync my Itunes with the note, to be the problem - but it turned out it is not.
I already did the following:
checked the m3u playlist isyncr generates with a text editor - everything fine
cleared data of stock music player
cleared data of "media storage"
created a playlist with a 3rd party player (amazon) => reverse order in samsung player, correct order in poweramp, player pro
created a playlist with samsung player => reverse order in 3rd party players (amazon, poweramp, player pro)
searched the internet and xda
asked samsung support for help - twice
Internet knows a similar problem with samsung fascinate without any solution, here on xda i found an old thread which i suspect describes the same problem on a different device (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1404735), but also without a solution or idea.
I can hardly believe there is such a bug in the stock music app and hardly anyone steps into it. I also find it hard to believe that samsung had this bug in Fascinate's music player, fixed it in the Galaxy S2's (which i also own and doesn't have this problem), just to re-integrate it in the Note 10.1.
Samsung support is not able to give any qualified answers and rather tries to force me to use kies (which I even tried, but despite its poor performance cannot help me with this problem). I will, however, try to ask them a 3rd time.
The Problem existed in ICS ROM as well as in Jelly Bean, which arrived about 2 weeks ago (XXBLJ9).
Any Ideas what I could try next?
If you read this and don't know an answer either, you can still help me by verifying the problem on your note 10.1 - just create a playlist with for example amazon mp3 (playlist, not album) and open it with samsung stock music player. Would be great, thanks in advance!
Greetings,
Oliver
Okay...seems like nobody has an idea how to solve this...no problem.
You can, however, also help me by just trying it out, takes about 1 minute of your time...is nobody using the stock music player and any other player?
As Internet isn't full of complaints, i suspect that it could be a configuration specific problem with my note. I am willing to wipe it in that case, but as it is not rooted i've got to restore its current state manually after that - which might take some hours So I just want to make sure that there's a chance that wiping helps me with my problem.
Anyone? Can (or can't) you confirm my problem?
Thanks and Greetings,
Oliver
Same issue on Samsung Droid Charge
OliverB82 said:
Okay...seems like nobody has an idea how to solve this...no problem.
You can, however, also help me by just trying it out, takes about 1 minute of your time...is nobody using the stock music player and any other player?
As Internet isn't full of complaints, i suspect that it could be a configuration specific problem with my note. I am willing to wipe it in that case, but as it is not rooted i've got to restore its current state manually after that - which might take some hours So I just want to make sure that there's a chance that wiping helps me with my problem.
Anyone? Can (or can't) you confirm my problem?
Thanks and Greetings,
Oliver
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Hi,
I have had my Samsung Charge since it came out. That problem has always persisted on my device. I find it extremely frustrating as the point of a smart phone is that it is multiple devices. I would like this to be my main music player as well since it has an external 32gb SD card and so can hold quite a bit of music.
I am not a developer (I do do technical support), just decided I am trying to figure out - AGAIN - why it does this. I just downloaded a trial of PowerAmp. Don't know if this might help you figure out the problem. Power Amp shows my synced playlists from Windows Media Player not as a Playlist but as a music folder under folders. So far I have synced just one playlist as a test. In the folder in powerAmp, it is in the correct order. In the stock music player it is in reversed order.
I paused in typing, and after syncing multiple playlists at one shot, the list in Poweramp is garbled. The first try created a single folder with all the songs from the playlist in correct order. Now with the sync of multiple lists, I do have a couple like above but the rest either didn't come across or the music came across but not the playlist. The stock music player also has just some not all of the playlists I synced. The music is all in reverse order.
To me this suggest that problem is with the implementation of the sync on the device itself, given you have the same issue. My guess is it reads and writes the playlist from bottom up. I think there is also a burrering problem since it never seems to bring all my lists over and if that happens only some of the music.
Hope this helps, would like very much to know if you find a solution. Samsung is close to losing me as a customer over this. I care less about browsing and connectivity and more about multi functionality. A music player that works is important to me, and am considering an HTC or maybe even an IPhone (!!!) next time around just because of this - and my next upgrade is in 60 days. I HOPE YOU ARE READING THIS SAMSUNG!!!
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dakatisbak said:
Hi,
I have had my Samsung Charge since it came out. That problem has always persisted on my device. I find it extremely frustrating as the point of a smart phone is that it is multiple devices. I would like this to be my main music player as well since it has an external 32gb SD card and so can hold quite a bit of music.
I am not a developer (I do do technical support), just decided I am trying to figure out - AGAIN - why it does this. I just downloaded a trial of PowerAmp. Don't know if this might help you figure out the problem. Power Amp shows my synced playlists from Windows Media Player not as a Playlist but as a music folder under folders. So far I have synced just one playlist as a test. In the folder in powerAmp, it is in the correct order. In the stock music player it is in reversed order.
I paused in typing, and after syncing multiple playlists at one shot, the list in Poweramp is garbled. The first try created a single folder with all the songs from the playlist in correct order. Now with the sync of multiple lists, I do have a couple like above but the rest either didn't come across or the music came across but not the playlist. The stock music player also has just some not all of the playlists I synced. The music is all in reverse order.
To me this suggest that problem is with the implementation of the sync on the device itself, given you have the same issue. My guess is it reads and writes the playlist from bottom up. I think there is also a burrering problem since it never seems to bring all my lists over and if that happens only some of the music.
Hope this helps, would like very much to know if you find a solution. Samsung is close to losing me as a customer over this. I care less about browsing and connectivity and more about multi functionality. A music player that works is important to me, and am considering an HTC or maybe even an IPhone (!!!) next time around just because of this - and my next upgrade is in 60 days. I HOPE YOU ARE READING THIS SAMSUNG!!!
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Hi Oliver,
Just discovered that my Amazon MP3 cloud player has all my playlists I just synced (except one) and the songs are all in the correct order. This is confounding to me as I previously had the same reversed order issue in this player. Not sure if it has anything to do with the fact that I went into the file system dorectly and deleted all the contents from themusic related folders before doing the sync for that one then multiple lists. Not sure what happened with that one list, might be related to the fact that it is a custom CD mix ( old school club music, I need the beats for running!). Am going to try syncing that list as I really like the music that's on it. This would seem to contradict my thinking above though. Seems the issue is with the Samsung stock music itself, not the sync. HTC/Apple here I come...
Galaxy stock mp3 Player
I have Samsung Fascinate and it has the same problem with stock mp3 music player. Songs on playlist are reversed. I also tried a few other players but they are not convenient.
So as previous says we can use Amazon mp3 player and widget. It works good for me. It remembers when I paused and even after reboot. So decided use it. It doesn't interfere with other programs (I use in my car navigation app - Navigon). So its very convenient listen music and have navigation.
While on 4.0.4 on my 8013 Note music files were organized under the album option alpabetically and all was great!
Now using any ROM above 4.0.4 the default music player no longer organizes it alpabetically, WHY!!!?!?!?! This is driving me nuts. I am not sure where to really begin to fix this. I have deleted all folders and then tried putting them on again but no go.
shrek4224 said:
While on 4.0.4 on my 8013 Note music files were organized under the album option alpabetically and all was great!
Now using any ROM above 4.0.4 the default music player no longer organizes it alpabetically, WHY!!!?!?!?! This is driving me nuts. I am not sure where to really begin to fix this. I have deleted all folders and then tried putting them on again but no go.
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The only fix that I could suggest is playerpro, as I see no option for resorting albums alphabetically in the stock app. I stopped using as it ignores folder structure on nearby devices and you end up with a huuugeee list of songs, rather than album folders.
Doesnt solve you issuse, but it might be your best option.
dhd1802 said:
The only fix that I could suggest is playerpro, as I see no option for resorting albums alphabetically. I stopped using as it ignores folder structure on nearby devices because you have a huuugeee list of songs, rather than album folders.
Doesnt solve you issuse, but it might be your best option.
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The only reason I like the stock player is the widget. I have not found a replacement player that has a widget that is as good.
Dont use the widgets myself, though these are the playerpro ones.
Goodluck with finding a fix though
What makes no sense is on my galaxy Note 2 running 4.1.1 everything is fine and normal.
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I have been diggin into xda to see what I could do about syncing my nedia into my device using itunes or something like that and found this post:
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I like the sound of this.
there are lots of people who slate iTunes, but after having an iPhone and moving to Android. I would suggest that people have not used iTunes fully. My wish list
Program
Links to podcasts (text, mp3 and video)
Option to auto download podcasts as above
Integrated music player
Integrated music ripper
Folder updater for album art, meta data etc
Integrated video player
Integrated video ripper
Plug phone in
Option to auto start a program
Option to auto sync
Option to auto check for update
So far if I want an auto sync comparable to iTunes I need a music client, video client podcast client and for backups, I need to root my phone and do it on my phone.
It is easier to have these clients on my phone but still not as easy.
Cyanogen mod do have an updates button in the settings. This could be given a short cut on the home screen. One click (check), one click accept. Phone auto reboots and updates. I believe this is only set up for release candidates though.
The confirm bit on cwm. in the clock work mod folder add a file called
.noconfirm
if I remember correctly this gets rid of the multiple no, no, no, no etc.
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What do you guys think about that? Any developer could explain if is possible and viable? I really like to keep my library in order, with album art, songs named correctly, etc and it could be awesome to just sync a Playlist from iTunes into the phone and keep it synced everytime i plugin the phone.
The steps would be like that:
Open iTunes and set your library up with covers and music info
Create a new playlist with all the music you want into your CyanogenMOD Android Device
Open the CM Sync (name sugestion) and select which (one or more) playlist you want to keep synced into your device
Let it sync and we are done.
CM Sync could have more option too, for example:
Auto updater for official supported phones using the built-in updater script of CyanogenMOD;
Organize launcher icons
Simple video converter to make sure you dont put a video with more pixels than you have on your phone
(Can you guys make more suggestions?)
I really like the music player I got from F-Droid called Vanilla Music player. Then interface just makes sense to me. But it seems not to be recognized as a player by my Verizon GS3 ICS phone's OS. When I tell Dragon Mobile Assistant to play a song, I get a pop-up asking which player to use, with an option to set the choice as default. The original players from Samsung and Verizon are there, as well as a podcatcher I installed, but not the music player I like to use. Originally, I thought it might be because I side-loaded it through F-Droid, but I found the same one in the Play store and installed it, and the problem persists. Is there a way to force Android to recognize the player as a possible option for playing music so that I can select it as default? Or even a way to set it as default in the first place? I can use the settings in Application Manager in settings to remove apps from the list of possible default apps in the popup dialog to select the default, but I'm not sure how to add an app.
Thanks in advance!
Maybe clear cache for dragon? It might have cached what players were installed when you first ran it. Other than that I'm not sure. Reinstall dragon or there's something about the vanilla player that isn't coded properly in one of the 2 apps I'd think.
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Bump, I have the same problem?
I'm trying to ditch my iPhone, but since I rely on iTunes this seemed impossible to accomplish until I discovered Google Play Music. So I uploaded all my 8,000 songs to the server, no issues.
I rely very heavily on playlists (I have 600+ playlists in iTunes). My playlists also uploaded, but they are blank!!!
When I go to the web player site, the playlists are all blank. And my Nexus 5 device playlists are also blank. Here's what's odd: the playlists on my Xperia Z1 are all full and in perfect order. What gives?!
I deleted my library from Google Play Music and deleted my playlists manually, one by one which was quite painful, and uploaded everything again same result.
Anyone run into this issue or have helpful suggestions? I have already tried everything Google support suggested to no vail, so I turn to the experts
I'm having the same exact problem. Which OS are you running? It might have something to do with that. I'm using a Mac running OSX Mavericks. I hope someone can find a solution. Other research I have done suggests this problem has been occurring for quite some time. If you refer to my link below it shows a similar thread dating from years past. Some of the replies mention the same problem. Unfortunately for now they all seem to be a dead end.
http://androidforums.com/android-media/512896-google-music-wont-let-me-upload.html#post6458599
ssindi said:
I'm trying to ditch my iPhone, but since I rely on iTunes this seemed impossible to accomplish until I discovered Google Play Music. So I uploaded all my 8,000 songs to the server, no issues.
I rely very heavily on playlists (I have 600+ playlists in iTunes). My playlists also uploaded, but they are blank!!!
When I go to the web player site, the playlists are all blank. And my Nexus 5 device playlists are also blank. Here's what's odd: the playlists on my Xperia Z1 are all full and in perfect order. What gives?!
I deleted my library from Google Play Music and deleted my playlists manually, one by one which was quite painful, and uploaded everything again same result.
Anyone run into this issue or have helpful suggestions? I have already tried everything Google support suggested to no vail, so I turn to the experts
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Very interesting, that post was created almost two years ago and still no fix?! How typical of Google, let's just push out semi finished work, and then ignore reported bugs...
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I'm having the same exact problem. Which OS are you running? It might have something to do with that. I'm using a Mac running OSX Mavericks. I hope someone can find a solution. Other research I have done suggests this problem has been occurring for quite some time. If you refer to my link below it shows a similar thread dating from years past. Some of the replies mention the same problem. Unfortunately for now they all seem to be a dead end.
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'Smart' playlists are incompatible...only 'dumb' playlists from iTunes are supported.
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'Smart' playlists are incompatible...only 'dumb' playlists from iTunes are supported.
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My playlists are all dumb, save the few created by iTunes!
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My playlists are all dumb, save the few created by iTunes!
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I *think* you can re-upload using 'playlists' rather than folder...have you tried that?
Hmm, you can "upload" playlists? I always thought they have to be created manually....
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Hmm, you can "upload" playlists? I always thought they have to be created manually....
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Well...they have to match the collection format in both locations, or they're invalid. Still...try to import Google Music playlists to iTunes and watch all hell break loose. Thankfully i have managed to avoid that abomination bloatware and never bought or owned anything Apple.
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When you say they have to match the collection format, what exactly do you mean? Is there anyway to verify if the formats are matched or mismatched? Obviously my guess is they are somehow mismatched if it isn't working properly. Do you have any suggestions?
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Well...they have to match the collection format in both locations, or they're invalid. Still...try to import Google Music playlists to iTunes and watch all hell break loose. Thankfully i have managed to avoid that abomination bloatware and never bought or owned anything Apple.
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You have to open a playlist file in Notepad and look at the path. A good playlist editor will allow you to save the playlist file as 'relative'.
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You have to open a playlist file in Notepad and look at the path. A good playlist editor will allow you to save the playlist file as 'relative'.
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Thanks, I'll give it a try
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Google Play Music iTunes Empty or Blank Playlist Issue Fixed!
Alright, So after a stroke of luck, I've managed to solve the blank playlist issue, at least on my device (2010 Macbook Pro running OSX Mavericks)
The steps are not complicated, there are just a lot of them, also scroll to the bottom to see a short cut that might work before going through all the steps.
The apps I used:
AppCleaner
Can be found here: http://www.freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
or here: http://download.cnet.com/AppCleaner/3000-2248_4-10867510.html
(watch out for CNET's bloatware, do the custom installation of their downloader and un-click all the add-ons)
So here's what I did:
**Deleted all of my iTunes playlists from Google Play Music using the Web Browser Interface
**Exited out of Google Play Music Manager and used AppCleaner to search for and move all the related files to the trash
(Related files being):
MusicManager app located at /Applications/MusicManager.app
com.google.musicmanager.plist located at ~/Library/Preferences/com.google.musicmanager.plist
MusicManger folder located at ~/Library/Logs/MusicManager
**Note, it might be hard to delete the app if it is still in use for some reason, to delete it use the "Secure Empty Trash" in the finder menu**
***Reboot the Computer***
***Before attempting the following steps involving iTunes files, it is important to know that this will reset your iTunes and all devices linked to it. More information can be found here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1451
Go into the iTunes music folder on your computer (iTunes must be closed):
**Take the iTunes Music Library.xml and put it on your desktop, put the iTunes Library.itl in the trash (do not get these confused!)
**Reopen iTunes (all of your playlists will be gone, most of your music will be gone), and import the iTunes Music Library.xml back into iTunes using the Import Playlist Feature
**Let iTunes do its thing, this could take a while depending on how much music you have
***Finally, reinstall Google Play Music manager, select the iTunes music folder (or where ever you keep your music) and Voila! your playlists should sync when google play music finishes uploading your library. Uploading should only take a few hours or less since Music Manager is just verifying songs instead of uploading them.
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I realize the above steps are long, but after completing them everything worked again. If I had to guess, the source of the problem lies in one of two spots, the com.google.musicmanager.plist file, or the iTunes Music Library.xml file. If you don't feel up to completing all the steps above, I might suggest:
1.) Uninstall Google Play Music Manager, find and delete the com.google.musicmanager.plist file, then reinstall
2.) Exit out of Google Play Music Manager, complete the iTunes steps listed above, reopen Google Play Music Manger
3.) Try to complete the steps listed by wideasleep1 in the previous post
If you are running a windows computer, the steps should be similar (maybe some files in different locations), but uninstalling shouldn't be as complicated.
Sorry for writing a book, I hope this helps!!