That's fair. Are you rooted? Of so, have you thought copy everything with TiBu, and going through it on your desktop to find the files? If you think they're in a hidden folder, you could try a file explorer that shows them, or emailing the dev of your favorite player to see if they'll tell you.
Great idea! As it turns out, both my phones are rooted, and I had recently upgraded to the Pro version of Titanium Backup (Tibu) on the older phone. The Pro version lets me store multiple backup copies at the same time. And due to some unhappy dealings with a defective SD card in the past, I have also been making backups of the older phone's SD card every week, copying the files to my PC. So I had older Titanium Backup files from the phone at my disposal. I did look through the files saved in the older phone (an LG Ally) Titanium Backup folder, but could not find anything within its compressed archive files that looked like playlists to me.
I decided to try installing Tibu on the Droid X, run a backup of its current apps, and then paste the Ally's SD Tibu folder content into the X's SD Tibu folder, fingers crossed that it would not matter it was a completely different phone and OS version. As luck would have it, those files included a backup I ran on 10/5 in the Ally, which, when I told Tibu to restore PowerAMP and data onto the Droid X from the Ally files, worked!
On the Droid X I now have all my playlists back!
Thanks!
Of course I then made a new Tibu backup of all apps and system data on the X in case I later need them. I don't understand why the programmers of several music player apps have to make dealing with playlists such a cryptic affair, but at least I now know how I can preserve mine. I like PowerAMP because unlike most players it lets me deal with folders and tracks and play them in the order of their file names, in which I always include a track number prefix. I don't like shuffled or randomized track playback. I also have little use for Meta tag data. Most of the time I prefer to play an entire album in the order it was created. Nothing seems more silly to me in music players than having them alphabetize the track names, as so many are inclined to do.
