Androde help

I have Androde icecream sandwitch 4.0 on my Tablet and use the Default Music player.

I have music on my SD card in a folder called Club Music.

So I made a m3u playlist in Notepad I have win 7. and yes I have show File Extantions turned ON.

I put the code in the text file as so

#EXTM3U
Club Music\take it off.mp3
Club Music\something like a party.mp3
Club Music\Futuristic Lover.mp3
Club Music\somebody told me.mp3
Club Music\Obsession.mp3
Club Music\Hypnotized.mp3
Club Music\ojos.mp3

And I saved it as playlist.m3u and put it in the same folder as my music on the SD card.

And yes I can see it on the Tablet but when I tap the Playlist it says
File Not Recognized.

Am I doing something not right I just wanted to see ho I could code an m3u file in Notepad and have it work on the Tablet?

 

I generally make m3u's for various systems, (though not Android, yet,) without a problem using relative addresses like that, but some players prefer absolute ones, including the drive designation.

I doubt that the player can't read songs from SD cards, since I assume that's what it's designed for.

You could try adding a line

Code:

#EXTINF:[i]length[/i],title

before each item, replacing length with the length of the song in seconds, and using the song's title.

Can the player save a playlist, even with just one song if that's easiest, so you can compare it to yours?

Someone in the mp3 player/gadget section may be able to give more specific advice for Android 4.0's default player.

 

Sorry to double post, but I just found this, from http://www.gomobi.org/tips/creat-music-playlists-for-android-mobile-phones.html

So, I would try removing the "Club Music\" part of each line in your playlist, leaving just the file name. The example playlist they give doesn't even have #EXTM3U at the beginning. If you have any files with non-Latin characters, (that is, symbols not on the keyboard, letters with accents, etc.,) make sure it's encoded as utf-8, otherwise regular Latin-1 or ASCII should be compatible if you only use "normal" characters.

 

Thank you for geting back to me but I have to as UTF-8 is Un Incoed Text just like ASCii so why did you want me to make my Playlist in UTF-8 for Androde?

Is ASCii and UTF-8 the same or how are they Diferant?

And 2.

This is how my playllist is
#EXTM3U
#EXTINF:214,003_Kesha - Take It Off
E:\Audio\MP3s\Club Music\take it off.mp3

And if I am understanding you right you are telling me to make it look like this

take it off.mp3
sos.mp3
something like a party.mp3

And so on and just keep the list of songs I want in the playlist and then save it as .mu3 am I right?

 

Like I said, I don't have experience with Android playlists. My first post was from my experience with m3u playlists in general. My second post gave advice according to a link I had found, (and some others that were less detailed,) that seemed to tell how the playlist was handled on Android. You may want to ask in the mp3 player and gadget section if this doesn't help.


The only real difference between utf-8 and ASCII is that utf-8 extends ASCII with more characters. (ASCII only has 128 defined characters. Modern computers often use at least twice that many. Windows' common character set 1252 and ISO-Latin-1 each have 256 characters, ASCII plus 128 extra characters. utf-8 was designed to be ASCII+representations for countless characters. All of these share ASCII as a subset, so as long as only ASCII characters are used, these are basically all the same.) As long as you use only true 7-bit ASCII characters, (upper and lower case letters, numbers, and most if not all keyboard symbols,) computers often can't tell the difference. If you use any non-ASCII characters, such as math symbols, accented characters or those of another language, it will easily be misread if you don't use the correct character set encoding. ASCII can sometimes refer to a character set with more characters, when mostly ASCII ones are used. The others can be called extended ASCII, and are not part of "pure" ASCII. This definition can cause confusion when extended ASCII is used.

I didn't see any non-ASCII characters in the playlists you have given so far.


According to the referenced site, Android's music system is different from most other systems I've made m3u's for in the way it scans for media. Android apparently scans before it loads the playlist, then chooses the playlist items out of known media by filename, without using the path. According to that site, the m3u is just a list of file names to play, regardless of where they are on the SD card. That is what you gave, so according to the advice I have found, that's supposed to work. Yes. If it doesn't, the problem could be the character set or something I don't know about. If it's the latter, you might want to ask in the mp3 player and gadget section.