Booting Android deletes Playlists
 

Hello,

Every time I boot into the BLAZN variant of Android (I haven't tried Vanilla), all the *.pls playlist files stored on my TP2's memory card are deleted. I use these as shoutcast bookmarks for GSPlayer and Kinoma. Does anyone have an idea as to what process might be removing these files, and how I can prevent it from happening again whilst still making the files accessible to Android?

Thanks!

Re: Booting Android deletes Playlists
 

Uh... that sounds odd. I put a command in my froyo.user.conf file that deletes all the *.rec files at the root of my sd...

Where do you store these *.pls files...? If they're just sitting at the root of your sd have you tried putting them in a folder? I've never heard of this before.

Re: Booting Android deletes Playlists
 

Storage Card\My Music\STATIONS\genre\*

EDIT: Forgot to mention that this behavior persists even after I format the card as FAT32 using defaults in Windows 7.

Re: Booting Android deletes Playlists
 

Wow. Well I just reproduced it on BLAZN. Going to see if the same thing happens to ref, very odd.

It's BLAZN. No clue why or how, but on Reference I don't get the issue.

Re: Booting Android deletes Playlists
 

Ah. Thanks for the assurance that I'm not going crazy :thumbleft:

Is there a bugtracker for BLAZN that I should be submiting this to? I noticed on both the XDA and PPCG threads that they're not intended for customer support.

Re: Booting Android deletes Playlists
 

Well I am going to keep testing... This seems very odd to me. I put a ton of other file types in there, and they didn't get deleted... So this is definitely an odd one. I'm not convinced it's only BLAZN at this point.

Re: Booting Android deletes Playlists
 

It's got to be an included app or something that is clearing them out. There is nothing in initrd or rootfs that look at that directory or do any recursive searches for .pls files. I would test it out by putting pls files in there, then remove applications (starting with media players) until they stop disappearing.

Re: Booting Android deletes Playlists
 

So this is very odd. First boot I just recreated the folder structure and threw some .pls files in there. They all got wiped when I booted into BLAZN. Then when I booted reference, I put some .pls files in there with a bunch of other files. Nothing got removed. So I removed everything but the .pls files, booted reference again and nothing got removed. Booted BLAZN again and STILL nothing was removed. All the .pls files were still there.

So it was only that first boot. I don't get it...

Re: Booting Android deletes Playlists
 

Interesting. I wish I could reproduce that somehow, but with my luck those files get hosed every time I boot.

Re: Booting Android deletes Playlists
 

arrrghhh (and Androktasie): Here's another one for you -- maybe related. For some time, my WeatherPanel layout files (*.wpl) have been erased from my SD card after every Android boot! I noticed my Windows PC thinks wpl files are for Windows Media Player -- so this thread title got my attention!

I used to use BLAZN, but now I'm running reference (10/25), with the latest rootfs and kernel (11/8 and 11/3, respectively). It's possible, however, that I'm still carrying an app or other left over file from BLAZN.

arrrghhh -- if you get a chance, can you check if this issue is reproducible for you? Thanks a lot!

Found a fix! Re: Booting Android deletes Playlists
 

Folks,

After some digging, I found a fix! ...or at least a work-around. Create an empty file called ".nomedia" in every folder where Android is deleting "playlist" files. This finally solved my problem of losing WeatherPanel layout (.wpl) files on every Android boot!

I think a .nomedia file tells Android's media scanner to ignore that folder. I'm not sure why Android is deleting playlists, or why it's not consistent across builds. Again though, adding .nomedia files solved my problem with this issue.

Re: Found a fix! Re: Booting Android deletes Playlists
 

Where did you find that?

Haven't given this too much attention lately, as it was inconsistent for me at best...

Hey, a workaround is a workaround. Let us know if it works guys!