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Why do music players delete my playlists?

Whenever I flash a new rom, I notice my playlists that were on my sd card are deleted.
I know I sometime add a song to the playlist using either Mixzhing or the android music app included with the custom roms, so I am speculating that when this is done the player generates its own playlist, storing it on my phones internal memory in some db file and deletes my old one.

This is a very...VERY...good question. I put a few m3u playlists on my sd card and when I flashed a new rom, gone. I think it has something to do with "Media Storage" because if you delete that in Titanium, your playlists are gone.

ugothakd said:
This is a very...VERY...good question. I put a few m3u playlists on my sd card and when I flashed a new rom, gone. I think it has something to do with "Media Storage" because if you delete that in Titanium, your playlists are gone.
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I actually tried to restore media storage using titanium, but it did not help.
I wonder about changing the permissions on it as a workaround but a pain in the a$$ to not be able to add songs using the music app to your playlist on the fly,

[Q] Offline Google Music when changing ROMs?

When I flash a new ROM and tell Google Music to download some music for offline, is it overwriting the old music I had told the previous ROM to download for offline? Does that make sense? I just don't want 10 copies of each song because I update ROMs fairly frequently.
Thanks.

That's a good question.. I guess the only way to know would be to download some, find the directory they are saved in, then switch ROMs and check the directory for duplicates.

I would imagine google music keeps a record of what it has downloaded and doesn't scan the directory. When you change ROMs this list gets wiped too and thus it redownloads the songs. Of course I could be wrong but I would imagine backing up google music data with TiBu and restoring it might fix the issue?

Each time when you flash a rom or remove the google account from the music app, the system automatically erases everything(music, album art, etc) back to the stone age. So each time when you flash, you gotta download everything again. It's a PITA for me because I have about 10gb of music in my playlist.

deaffob said:
Each time when you flash a rom or remove the google account from the music app, the system automatically erases everything(music, album art, etc) back to the stone age. So each time when you flash, you gotta download everything again. It's a PITA for me because I have about 10gb of music in my playlist.
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Yeah, I'm currently redownloading my 15GB of music with google music. I might just find the directory with all the files and move it, then use a different player or something. I can't deal with redownloading this every time I flash a new CM10 nightly.

/android/com.music or something similar.

ICS problem? Does Mediascanner run anymore?

I've noticed an issue since I've upgraded to ICS. That every single mp3 on my SD is duplicated when my phone boots. This doesn't happen to mp3s stored on my phone.
Is there a way to get the phone to manually rescan the SD card?

I had this problem too and wound up switching to cm9. To fix it in would have to disable the mediascanner service (forgot the actual name), delete its' cache as well as delete the cache for the music app. At that point I would reboot and the music files would be re indexed properly. After a few days, the problem would recur. A workaround is to download poweramp which does not rely upon android's indexing service.
Good luck!
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this is what solve mine:
you need to be rooted. use root explorer or ROM toolbox pro
Go to /data/data
Find and delete folder:
com.android.providers.media (don't worry it will recreate this folder)
Reboot.
Wait awhile because it is rescanning the external SD card
let me know if it worked

[Q] Broke My Stock Music Player Using NotPod

Tried to use a new program (NotPod) to Sync my PC based iTunes playlist songs with my HTC Incredible. It did not work. Normally I drag and drop songs from the PC to the INC. This time I did a Sync, using NotPod, which initially erased all files from the MUSIC folder on the SDcard. Then, I sync'd a couple songs to test. Ouch. NotPod copied folders and files. I never had any sub folders inside the root MUSIC folder. From that point on, the stock rom based music player does not work. I have WinAmp and that recognizes the SDcard and plays the songs, but not the stock app. I tried a Nandroid restore. No luck. All other apps seem to work. I wiped Davlik. That did nothing.
Even the stock songs that came with the HTC (which I never erased) do not display. I can read them with Root Explorer and play them with WinAmp, but the stock music player does not pick them up. I did try to erase the Music folder and then restore it, with no luck.
Not sure why the nandroid restore did not cure the problem. I also used a program called SDRescan. That helps sometimes when some SDcard files are not recognized. I have run out of ideas.
Any thoughts would be helpful.

refreshing samsung music player

Sorry guys if this has been asked.. Any idea to make samsung music player update its music list if we just copy new songs to folder ?
Thanks

Go to Settings, Applications, show system apps, find Media Storage, go to its storage memory used and clear all data.
Reboot the phone and let it rebuild the media list.

So how do you prevent it from happening again? Is there the right way of copying mp3 files so the system will add it properly to the media database?

I'm facing now the same issue ?

Found the solution.. just add music files to internal memory not the sd card now it will appear in Samsung music.. u can move them later to sd card and will work normally

Still having this problem on android 11.