Hey people,
I'm having issues syncing playlists from my computer to my phone.
Been searching all over the net for a proper solution but no luck with this.
Here's my issue;
Basically when i sync playlists from my PC to my phone, it saves the playlists on my phone as .PLA format.
Now the only player that actually reads those playlists is my stock player.
I have tried several android players, but non of them will recognize the playlists.
On my PC for syncing i have tried
-WMP
-Winamp
-MediaMonkey
-DoubleTwist
All of these create playlists in PLA format on my device when transferring them, which wouldnt be a problem if i wanted to use the stock player.
As for android apps/media players i have tried:
-Cubed
-Winamp
-Mort Player
-Media PlayerPro
-Mixzing
-Astro Player
When i create a playlist using any of the apps on my phone, every other app is capable of reading them.
However, the playlist file can not be found on my phone, or my SD card. so i have no clue what format they are saved to, or where they are saved too.
I'm basically looking for a way to transfer my playlists from my computer to my android phone, and have the other apps actually read the playlists.
The phone im using is the Samsung Galaxy S.
Been trying to work this out for days now, but with no success what so ever.
So if there is anyone that has a clue on how to get this done properly, id appreciate it.
For those of you who have had these problems (which is a number of you, as I found out after a quick search), I had the same problems and found a solution after tinkering about. The alternative, deleting all old music and resyncing, often still gave me problems so I'm hoping this will be helpful. If anyone has found a more elegant solution, please share it.
Step 1: Create a NEW Playlist in iTunes WITH A UNIQUE NAME THAT YOU HAVE NEVER USED BEFORE.
This is important. For whatever reason, the music player will assume a playlist with a name you've used in the past is already synced and it will ignore it. It also has to be a NEW playlist, not an old playlist that you rename. I used "Test1", "Test2", etc. Don't worry, you'll be able to change it to something else later.
Step 2: Add one song to the playlist that you do not actually want in the playlist.
Again, important. When you sync in the next step, the playlist that appears in google music won't contain the song you added.
Step 3: It may take a minute or so for the playlist to appear in the list of playlists to sync; wait until it is visible and then sync the playlist with google music manager.
Step 4: Wait for the Playlist to appear in google music. It will appear as an empty playlist.
Step 5: Remove the song from the playlist in iTunes and wait for the playlist to disappear from the list of playlists to sync in google music manager before syncing the playlists.
Empty playlists are not recognized as syncable so they will eventually disappear from the list of playlists that you can sync.
Step 6: Add ANOTHER song you do not actually want in the playlist
Again, when you resync in the next step, the song will not appear in the playlist on google music.
Step 7: Wait for the playlist to appear in google music manager, and then resync.
Step 8: After the playlist appears again in google music, add all the songs you actually want in the playlists, and sync the music manager.
You might have to sync a couple times and/or wait a couple minutes, but eventually, you will see that the songs are being added to the playlist in google music.
Step 9: After your songs are added, you can rename the playlist both in iTunes and in Google Music. It will still sync properly if you add and/or remove songs from it.
This is really annoying issue that keeps happening ..over and over and over again. Is there no solid fix? Anyone confirm this working without occurring again?
Thanks for posting this but I've tried this and it doesn't appear to work. I get all the way down until the part where I add the music I want on the playlist but my playlist doesn't sync.
Question though, your instructions miss out what to do with the last song you add to your playlist that you don't actually want on the playlist. Should this be deleted before I add the songs I do want on the playlist or after? Also, do I require do to this for all my playlists that have the duplication issue?
The duplication issue is driving me insane. So if anyone can help it would be much appreciated. Thanks.
I also have this issue. I have 3 or 4 songs duplicated in my library. So annoying.
Has anyone tried third party apps like DupeOut?
Still a bloody issue! Fix this **** google it's horrible
Yep...still happens. Solution above helped for a while, then back to this crap again.
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My Google music manager would upload the songs, upload the playlist name, but the playlist remains empty. This only started the beginning of this month and its driving me nuts! I use itunes to upload the playlists and I have un and reinstalled both itunes and music mananger several times hoping to solve the issue.
Can anyone shed some hope onto my problem?
robindra said:
My Google music manager would upload the songs, upload the playlist name, but the playlist remains empty. This only started the beginning of this month and its driving me nuts! I use itunes to upload the playlists and I have un and reinstalled both itunes and music mananger several times hoping to solve the issue.
Can anyone shed some hope onto my problem?
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This is the same problem I'm having. Google Music Manager will upload all my songs as well as upload the playlist name, but in Google Music, the playlist will remain empty.
Google Music Manager is such a buggy app and has been from the beginning!
JDStone said:
This is the same problem I'm having. Google Music Manager will upload all my songs as well as upload the playlist name, but in Google Music, the playlist will remain empty.
Google Music Manager is such a buggy app and has been from the beginning!
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Same here. I have tried removing all music and playlists online, clearing app data on my phone and tablet, uninstalling music manager and all preferences and files, created new playlists in iTunes and re-added the songs (even removed all music from iTunes and re-imported it), rebooted, re-installed music manager and tried to upload things again, everything uploads but my playlists are *STILL* empty. I have tried this from Mac Mavericks and even Windows 8.1. It was working perfectly fine a couple weeks ago, wonder if Google updated something that broke the playlists from populating. I sent them an e-mail, but haven't heard anything. Granted, it's a free service and you get what you pay for, it's frustrating to see a service with such great potential fall short because of a few bugs. I kind of wish they would come out with their own offline music player that would interface directly online, so I can get rid of iTunes once and for all!
Hello, i have a pretty messy music library with few tags set just a bunch of songs thrown together in a folder due to multiple migrations etc. I just execute Linux commands to look for mp3 files and send them all to one folder since its the easiest method.
I wonder if there is a player that displays the images that are inside of each music file instead of selecting the one in the first one and set it all as one single album and has audio balance.
To illustrate I can have separate songs with their album image attached inside my folder for 100 songs but my music player using the built-in music library feature of Android select the first song and use that image as the album image for all the songs when the album tag is unspecified. There are players which, however, does not do this and respect what image is attached to the song. An example is the music player for Huawei Honor. But I have recently gotten hearing issues and I need a player that does this with audio balance, which the Huawei one doesn't.
All tips that might help is appreciated as always. I have tried players like Shuttle and Blackplayer without luck so far.
I guess I will get comments such as "Just clean up your tags" but I'm not the type to tag songs as I tend to listen to a bunch of less-known electronic artists that are not really possible to locate in any music identification database (I'm sure it has your pop, rock and classics though...) The reason I have gotten rid of the tags over time is because I got a lot of ugly albums containing only one to around five songs depending on the EP.
EDIT: its worth noting that it might work to make a seperate folder for all the individual songs, but that sounds like a horrible fix to me.
I'm sure somebody can relate to my situation, it is not easy to dig through the mess of music apps out there.
Hi,
I suggest asking for opinions here,
Android Development and Hacking > Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting > [Ask Any Question][Newbie Friendly]
Or just searching Google Play store for different music players and try some out.
Good luck!
Hi,
I have around 900 songs on my phone. I have tried to create playlists on Google Play music but somehow it disappears and I am forced to create them again. So would just like to know if there are any music players that have back up support for playlists.
Alternately, can someone tell me where exactly is the playlists stored so that I can manually back up the same.
Phone - One plus 2 (Rooted)
OS details - Marshmallow 6.0.1 with Oxygen ROM - 3.0.2
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I have a simple question that I may just need a different app. But, I am using poweramp to play flac playlists and the issue is that I cant find a way or another app to make playlist folders. Eg I have several 8 playlist of audiobooks from one author. Instead of seeing all 8 in addition to all the other playlists I have, I would like to create a playlist folder with the authors name. within this folder will be the other playlists. I tried searching but there does not seem to be an app to do this. Itunes does this easily and syncs it to any idevice as well.
Which device?
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Which device?
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Galaxy Note 4. Not rooted.