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empty playlists?

caste1200 — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 22:25:18 GMT

hello,

since the update, I have empty playlists on my phone, I have all of my playlists twice, one empty and one normal,

I use Windows Media Player to sync my device...

For some reason I cannot delete the playlist, ive been trying to find them but no idea where they could be, already cleared the cache of walkman and nothing happend...

any ideas?

cheers!

Re: empty playlists?

Uliwooly — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 04:36:00 GMT

How did you transferred the music? Through media go ?

Re: empty playlists?

Alexander1 — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:47:01 GMT

Hi,

As I understand, you have to remove the Playlist using Windows media player, If you have used Windows media player to sync your music to the phone.

Re: empty playlists?

caste1200 — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:32:28 GMT

I was able to solve this by opening media go and leting the app scan my phone, it found the empty playlists and I could delet them from there.

Why cant I delete or modify a playlist not created by the phone? thats kinda ridiculous...

cheers!

EDIT:

It did not fix the problem... im getting really tired of all this &%ç*, im going to install a custom ROM this weekend :)... sony, IM REALLY DISAPOINTED and im not the only one.. when are you going to listen to your costumers?

Re: empty playlists?

caste1200 — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 21:07:21 GMT

so no answer yet from sony?

Im loving sony more and more every day

Re: empty playlists?

Alexander1 — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:22:25 GMT

Hi,

Have you synced to playlists to the SD card or the internal storage?

You can try to delete the playlist using a file manager. Open file manager go to internal storage or SD card depending on where you have saved the playlist. Go the the folder Playlist > delete the file.

Re: empty playlists?

caste1200 — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 19:07:13 GMT

hi,

ive done that before.. lets say I have a advance knowledge on computer science...

ive deleted that folder lots of times, I sync my sd card, and the playlists are on the SD card, since when I remove it, all the playlists are gone, when I delete the playlist folder, only the full playlists get ereased... the empty ones are still there, ive searched for the files on my SD card but for some reason I cannot find them, at least not by searching the name of the playlists or songs on the playlists ( with advance search, so searching inside files etc...)

Re: empty playlists?

Alexander1 — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:02:18 GMT

Well that is odd.

I don't know if you have tried this yet but you could try to clear data for media storage and also Walkman. Go to settings > apps > all > media storage/Walkman > clear data.

Restart the phone and wait for the phone to index all media files again.

If you still experience problem, you could perform a factory reset of the phone.

Before a factory reset you may want to backup your information first. Check out this topic for more information on how to:
http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/FAQ/Backup-amp-Transfer/m-p/407253#U407253

Re: empty playlists?

DrCrauser — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:42:43 GMT

Hi,

I've had similair problem and found easy solution. Just install Winamp from Google Play and once you open the app go to the playlist menu and there you'll be able to get rid off of your empty playlists.

Re: empty playlists?

caste1200 — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 20:53:45 GMT

I ended up solving this by using a 3rd party playlists app and delete all of them.

Re: empty playlists?

Alexander1 — Wed, 07 May 2014 14:43:55 GMT

Nice to hear that you find a solution.

Re: empty playlists?

RealT10 — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 01:36:38 GMT

I had exactly the same issue. Here is how to resolve this, on the external SD card there will be a folders called “Playlists” move this to your internal drive.

That’s it end of problem. If you later add or recreate the list just move the content of the "Playlists" folder on your external SD card to the internal drive.