This way, you can edit the m3u file with a text editor (e.g. To save, use the three dots menu beside the playlist. Update 2: After a long research, I found a music player "Muzio" in the Google PlayStore which can save internal playlists as text file ( *.m3u) and load them later (the player uses Muzio/Playlist Backup directory on your internal storage). Update 3: With Samsung Music, it can be done (Android 12 latest Music release of Samsung Music App V 16.2.27.5). (where extSdCard stands for a CID like F987-5432 and #EXTINF:123, Sample artist - Sample title is metadata, see M3U playlist format) #EXTINF:123, Sample artist - Sample title /storage/extSdCard/Sounds/Sample.mp3 Here's an example of a M3U file, note that relative paths (like Sounds/Sample.mp3) are allowed as well (if the player supports them): m3u playlists)? Phone Playlist -> M3U file ( Note: The other way round it is possible, as this forum postĮxplains). Or do you know if there is a tool available (for Android, or for Windows reading it from the mobile phone) converting the playlists into a compatible text format (like. To summarize my question (one of the options below would help me):ĭo you know how I can backup the playlists on the phone and then extract the file/path info contained in them in Windows? Phone Playlist -> Windows PC -> Extract Path/Filename to text file N.B.: The smartphone is able to read and import *.m3u playlists (via the player's "Music Square" menu - context menu "Library update"), but cannot modify them (if you add titles, they will only be available in the smartphone, the *.m3u file isn't changed). I found this interesting question, which explains that Android stores playlists in SqlLite databases, but unfortunately, on my Samsung phone I could not find the database file (although there is a folder Computer\GT-I8190\Phone\Android\data\ which should contain it, but no databases subdirectory and no database files). Samsung Kies also did not work for me, it does not seem to support the playlists created on the phone. Also, if I connect the SDHC card via cardreader, the files aren't useful. The phone has a playlist folder, containing the Playlists, when I use a USB cable to connect it to the PC, I can see them ( *.pla files) but they have 0 bytes and cannot be copied. path filename etc) to be able to edit the path to make them usable again. Now I am looking for a way to backup the playlists or at least their content (i.e. Samsung Music) can't find them, because it doesn't look into the new path ( /storage/F987-5432/.). storage/F987-5432/MyMusic/RickSpringField-LoveSomebody.mp3Īnd your playlists are all empty because every single entry still starts with the old path /storage/A15F-1234/., and the player (e.g. (where E: is your old, F: your new card in this example)īut when you put the new card into your mobile after copying, your file will be at Once you copy the file to the new SD card, it will be onį:/MyMusic/RickSpringField-LoveSomebody.mp3 storage/A15F-1234/MyMusic/RickSpringField-LoveSomebody.mp3.Į:/MyMusic/RickSpringField-LoveSomebody.mp3 This becomes important because the music player stores the files of your playlist as absolute path, e.g. Note that this is a virtual folder and it cannot be renamed. storage/F987-5432/, hence the player is looking for the old path as stored in the playlist and don't find the files anymore! So your original SD card has a root path likeĪnd when you buy a new SD card, its CID is different, so the root path changes, e.g. The reason for this issue is that Android mounts SD cards as /storage/UniqueId where UniqueId is a hex number (the serial number or CID of your SD card), e.g. This is especially annoying if you want to replace the SDHC card by a bigger one and want to backup all files including playlists from the old one Removing the SDHC memory card (after turning off the device), and re-insert it later, causes the MP3-player to forget all files in the playlists which I have created.Playlist information is lost when doing this: path and filenames) I've created on Android's builtin MP3-player, to copy it with the MP3 files to a bigger SDHC card. I like to extract playlist information (i.e.
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