I had a question regarding the music playlists on this phone and really any android phone that is rooted. Whenever I switch roms and wipe data I lose my music playlists.. I have alot of music and its a real pain always recreating my playlists. I was wondering if there was a way to save them?
I can't really help but I'd also like to know the answer so I'm just giving you a free bump.
it would also be nice to know if there is software we could use to organize our playlists on the computer and have it saved there.
I think titanium backup will save them for you - the entry I'm looking at is:
[PLAYLISTS] Media Storage 2.2.1
and it's in system data. It seems to work for me usually but not always.
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I am trying to figure out how to backup the playlists I have made in the HTC Sense music player.
I am pretty sure it is just a DB file somewhere on the device. Can anybody tell me what file?
Stock / Rooted ICS OTA Rezound.
I know My Backup Pro will allow you to backup playlists. I did this prior to upgrading my phone to ICS. I was able to restore the playlist, however for whatever odd reason, the restore process never seemed to finish. It just sat there at 0%, I left it alone for about 5 minutes, then decided to force kill it. Despite that issue, the music app had my playlists restored and the music played without any issues.
So I recently flahsed CM10 onto my Evo but now it doesn't seem to locate my google play music which is stored locally on the phone. How can I get play to access the data on the phone? And/or where is the data located? Ideas?
Thanks in advance
elitelimfish said:
So I recently flahsed CM10 onto my Evo but now it doesn't seem to locate my google play music which is stored locally on the phone. How can I get play to access the data on the phone? And/or where is the data located? Ideas?
Thanks in advance
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The Google music music data should be stored on the sdcard, /sdcard. Based on the information you provided, that you recently switched to CM10, I'm wondering if this might be part of the issue.
Generally, when loading a new ROM, the instructions indicate to wipe the /data partition. The data partition might be where Google Music stores settings/location information such as, xyz song is stored on the sdcard. If this information was wiped, Google Music, might not know there is music stored offline on the /sdcard and might not know which account to associate the music with.
If you made a backup prior to flash CM10, you could pull out the actual data files for Google Music and restore those. My guess is that might help Google Music *remember* where it stored your offline music!
There might be another way around that issue, or other methods. Hopefully people will post up what they know/have experienced. Hope that helps!
Ya I think you're right. Before when I was swapping between ROMs my music would still be there when I reflashed Sense but it's gone now. Just going to redownload all of it.
[Q] Strange Issue: Stock Music Player loses Playlist & Settings after every reboot
I'm on Stock ICS and every time i reboot my SGSIII, the stock music player loses all my playlists and settings. I've got the same issue on JB (DLIB).
Can anyone help me with this please? Or can anyone tell me, where the stock music player stores the Playlist? Did a forumsearch, but i only found this old an unanswerd thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=979931
Thanks!
Anyone?
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I have seen this on through LI8 leak but with the AOSP music player on the market, really annoyed me.
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I don't have this issue, but similar... after I play a music, if I disconnect the headset after a while (can't say how long) when I plug again the headset, the music starts not from the point were was left, but from the start. This also happens if I restart the phone!!!
I don't get it... is this right?!? Is this a bug or a "feature"?!?!
Samsung, were are in 2012!!! My previous music players, google music and sense player did this!!!
Apologies for bringing back an old thread, but I'm having a similar problem where the playlists in the stock music player app never seem to retain their songs after plugging the phone into a PC to do some backup or synching for example. This is on the 4.1.2 BTU update. Anyone know of any ideas on how to fix it? I have tried dismounting the SD Card (Where all the songs are) and reinserting it.
I am experiencing the same problem. The actual playlist doesn't get deleted but the contents of all playlists gets deleted. It's caused by the external SD card getting unmounted. I found out that if I bump my phone (eg. by putting it down on a table a little too hard or throwing it on my bed) my external SD card will sometimes get disconnected briefly (a warning message does get displayed at the top in the notification area but it just flashes by briefly so you might miss it) and after that all of my playlists have been emptied out. To prove this is the cause I tried to unmount the SD card manually via Settings and the same thing happened to the playlists. Also when you connect to a PC I believe the SD card gets unmounted from the phone so it can be accessed via the PC. The strange thing is the playlists don't seem to be stored on the external SD card. I took my SD card out of my phone and plugged into my PC and did a search. Couldn't find any playlist files. There is a folder on the internal storage card called Playlists and I can see a bunch of files in there that have the same name as all of my playlists. These files don't seem to store the actual playlists though because they are all emtpy zero length files and their modification data is set to the the day I first created the playlist even though I have added songs to the playlist since then.
Can anyone please provide an explanation of how the stock player stores playlists or how to back them up? I would like to at least be able to backup my playlists in case they get cleared out again.
Oyyyy
Well that blows. My s2 didn't do this, my s3 sure does tho. Sounds like when the SD is unmounted, it notices files no longer exist, and removes them from playlist. Definitely supports my hatred of the Nexus line (no SD card so Google likely just overlooked this).
Anyways, I read this as a some-what fix:
"I use MyBackup Pro to save my playlists, it does a really good job but have just recently changed all mine to M3U playlists which I store and update on my PC. I just move them to my music folder on the sdcard of the phone and my media players (mixzing, stock player, amazon mp3 and google music) all recognize them. This save me a lot of hassles if something gets lost or not backed up right."
I haven't tried yet, but it's better than having to re-create playlists I suppose.
Pro-tip: Create a tasker/local/NFC launch to backup playlists weekly/ whatever
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and just stumbled upon this post... I unmounted my SD Card and then re-mounted and bam... The playlist on my stock music player is gone. I tried to restore data only from Titanium Backup and MyBackup Pro. No luck... will now try to restore just the data partition image which I made a few days ago.
Hopefully this will bring it back, if not, will have to do a full Nandroid Restore.
This should not happen if I choose to unmount and then remount the sdcard to refresh data.
I have done this by accident again, even knowing that this would happen. Back to the drawing board.
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I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and just stumbled upon this post... I unmounted my SD Card and then re-mounted and bam... The playlist on my stock music player is gone. I tried to restore data only from Titanium Backup and MyBackup Pro. No luck... will now try to restore just the data partition image which I made a few days ago.
Hopefully this will bring it back, if not, will have to do a full Nandroid Restore.
This should not happen if I choose to unmount and then remount the sdcard to refresh data.
I have done this by accident again, even knowing that this would happen. Back to the drawing board.
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I sincerely doubt a Nandroid restore is necessary, just delete all music off the phone/sd card, and send the playlists to the phone again...I've done this several times.
No idea why it keeps happening, it is annoying, but I have all the playlists stored in Winamp, so I just send them to the SD card, and I'm back up and running in short order.
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I sincerely doubt a Nandroid restore is necessary, just delete all music off the phone/sd card, and send the playlists to the phone again...I've done this several times.
No idea why it keeps happening, it is annoying, but I have all the playlists stored in Winamp, so I just send them to the SD card, and I'm back up and running in short order.
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No disrepect, but it does not make any sense to have to delete all of my music to restore a playlist. I do not use Winamp so not a viable solution for me. I found out that the default players can see playlists under the internal sdcard card, music, then playlists folder. As I said I have a T-Mobile Note2.
The reason my for post was that Playlists should not be lost when unmounting and re-mounting of your external sdcard.
Hi,
While changing roms, obviously the Playlist's for the stock music player are deleted, and i can't sync playlists back again even through Kies (even when stock kies wouldnt work with playlists)
What i would like to know is, if there's a way for me to export my playlists and reimport them into the STOCK Touchwiz music player once ive flashed a new rom (i always use TW). I like the stock player and would rather not change if possible
Its a really annoying issue (especially when mixing funk with hip hop -> doesnt work! )
Cheers
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if u are rooted and use titanium backup then your playlists can be saved.
usually under the name "media storage(followed by android version)(playlists)"
i.e mine is listed in TB as "Media storage 4.1.1-...XXDLIB(playlists)"
I looked into this myself a few weeks back and found this to be the easiest method. But if you want to get technical the file you want with a root explorer is "Data/data/com.android.providers.media"
Awesome thanks man.
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