Music players don't find playlist items

[aschratte]

Hi,

here's my problem: m3u playlists working well with different music players on my PC are incomplete on my Android mobile. Affected are mp3 files stored below a certain folder level allthough all paths are relative to the folder where the playlists are located.

Examples:
All music folders (individual folder per album) are stored in extSdCard/Music, the playlist myfavourites.m3u is located there as well and behaves like that:

#EXTINF:239,OnlyOneAlbumOfArtist - 8 - EighthTitle
OnlyOneAlbumOfArtist\EighthTitle.mp3
==> works

#EXTINF:286,FirstAlbumOfArtist - 8 - EighthTitle
Artist\FirstAlbumOfArtist\EighthTitle.mp3
==> does not work work

The album playlist OnlyOneAlbumOfArtist.m3u is located in
OnlyOneAlbumOfArtist, i.e. on the same level as the mp3 files ==> works

The album playlist FirstAlbumOfArtist.m3u is located in
Kuenstler\FirstAlbumOfArtist, i.e. also on the same level as the mp3 files ==> does not work

I tried PowerAmp, PlayerPro and WinAmp (on Android 4.1.2), always the same behaviour, on Windows with WinAmp, WMP and applications like MP3tag no trouble whatsoever.

I'm here as it seems that this is an Android specific issue.

Any ideas what causes this issue (and how I could circumvent it without changing my folder structure and many many playlists) welcome.

 

[argedion]

Where are the playlist created at? On the device or on the computer?

 

[aschratte]

On the Computer, partly manually, partly using PlaylistCreator, partly with MP3tTag.

 

[foresterdk]

I have a lot of play lists, best of..., favourite..., etc. Made on PC using file manager and stored on my phone as folders. My app for these is Music Folder Player free. No other player seems to do this. They don't recognise user-created folders. Give it a try

 

[aschratte]

Hi foresterdk,

it's not a matter of folder recognition - all artists are shown in the library no matter where located. It's a problem of accessing folders below a certain level using a playlist and it's independent of the way I created the folders and playlists.
Nonetheless I'll try the player you propose, maybe it works as an alternative.
Thanks a lot.

 

[aschratte]

OK, been there, done that, player works throughout all folder levels. That's another indicator for an issue in processing file location information of .m3u files in an Andoroid environment.