Hi,
I'm kind of at my wit's end with this problem; I've gone to so many places to try to find a solution.
I recently got a Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, intending to upgrade from the samsung Galaxy S5. I LIKE it, but there's one big snag, I have horrible problems making playlists from sound files in the device's music folder.
Windows PC: I can easily transfer the files onto the phone. It's making the playlist for my files that's the problem. These are specialty spoken word recordings that I make myself and get from other hobbyists, so a music streaming site wouldn't be of much use.
What's happening: With the S5, I could click on the .pla playlist in question within the music folder, a primitive yet useful editor would pop up and I'd be able to easily send as many files as I want up to the top of the playlist, so I can reorder it from there.
The Note 20 Ultra; Attempting to do the same thing. It looks like the same primitive editor, but it's .m3u, not .pla. I tried dragging a .pla file into the phone, but it wouldn't let me. At first, I'd be able to make fresh .m3us from my PC, but they'd quickly become 'invisible' to the pc. I.e. the editor would show nothing, although there were files listed. The music apps would be able see them. I wouldn't be able to add any more files from the pc to that playlist, or else the playlist would be truncated. I only had the phone less than a month; it started out with oneui 2.5, went to 3.0, then 3.1. Now, I can't make any fresh m3us from the PC. The editor comes up and seems to work, but the playlist file won't really save. Example, if it's 0kb it'll stay 0kb.
I'd much prefer to do it on the pc, but I could edit the playlist from an app if the app would conveniently show recently added files AND I could quickly send multiple files from the bottom to the top. When the playlist is 400 items, toggling one by one isn't really an option. Player Pro DOES check the recently added box, but doesn't seem to toggle multiple files up/down at once. It's a moot point since Player Pro now seems to be a buggy, useless mess with Android 11. It constantly freezes.
I'd really like to quit lugging two phones around. Since the mp3 player is 80% of my phone use, it's kind of important to me.
I have; tried multiple USB modes with the phone (no difference), tried to make the phone's m3u playlist via external PC programs (winamp and similar) - they read the playlists, but new files don't seem to take hold.
I suspect the problem is permissions. If I could use it more like a full USB device, the problem would probably be solved.
What can I do? Is there some other workaround? I.e. having the files still on my phone, but a playlist file in the cloud?
An m3u is a glorified text file. It's rather frustrating that I'm having such problems with such an old technology. I have no such problems with m3u's on the pc.
I'm kind of at my wit's end with this problem; I've gone to so many places to try to find a solution.
I recently got a Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, intending to upgrade from the samsung Galaxy S5. I LIKE it, but there's one big snag, I have horrible problems making playlists from sound files in the device's music folder.
Windows PC: I can easily transfer the files onto the phone. It's making the playlist for my files that's the problem. These are specialty spoken word recordings that I make myself and get from other hobbyists, so a music streaming site wouldn't be of much use.
What's happening: With the S5, I could click on the .pla playlist in question within the music folder, a primitive yet useful editor would pop up and I'd be able to easily send as many files as I want up to the top of the playlist, so I can reorder it from there.
The Note 20 Ultra; Attempting to do the same thing. It looks like the same primitive editor, but it's .m3u, not .pla. I tried dragging a .pla file into the phone, but it wouldn't let me. At first, I'd be able to make fresh .m3us from my PC, but they'd quickly become 'invisible' to the pc. I.e. the editor would show nothing, although there were files listed. The music apps would be able see them. I wouldn't be able to add any more files from the pc to that playlist, or else the playlist would be truncated. I only had the phone less than a month; it started out with oneui 2.5, went to 3.0, then 3.1. Now, I can't make any fresh m3us from the PC. The editor comes up and seems to work, but the playlist file won't really save. Example, if it's 0kb it'll stay 0kb.
I'd much prefer to do it on the pc, but I could edit the playlist from an app if the app would conveniently show recently added files AND I could quickly send multiple files from the bottom to the top. When the playlist is 400 items, toggling one by one isn't really an option. Player Pro DOES check the recently added box, but doesn't seem to toggle multiple files up/down at once. It's a moot point since Player Pro now seems to be a buggy, useless mess with Android 11. It constantly freezes.
I'd really like to quit lugging two phones around. Since the mp3 player is 80% of my phone use, it's kind of important to me.
I have; tried multiple USB modes with the phone (no difference), tried to make the phone's m3u playlist via external PC programs (winamp and similar) - they read the playlists, but new files don't seem to take hold.
I suspect the problem is permissions. If I could use it more like a full USB device, the problem would probably be solved.
What can I do? Is there some other workaround? I.e. having the files still on my phone, but a playlist file in the cloud?
An m3u is a glorified text file. It's rather frustrating that I'm having such problems with such an old technology. I have no such problems with m3u's on the pc.
