playlist empty

[cauerego]

Actual behaviour

the playlists are always empty, including favourites

Expected behaviour

should be able to add songs to them!

Steps to reproduce

1. create playlist
2. add song
3. it stays empty

Environment data

Android version: 10 00WW_2_270_SP05

Device model: nokia 7.2 TA-1196

Stock or customized system: stock

Music-Player app version: 1.3.3 (and all versions i've used before)

oddly enough, got the same issue with vinyl VinylMusicPlayer/VinylMusicPlayer#242

[Starcr0ss]

As far as I know, this is a problem with Android 10. I just got it on my Samsung Galaxy Tab A and now I can't add songs to playlists.
Best workaround: Download the Samsung Music app, if possible. You can use it just for playlist management like I do.

[cauerego]

i'll never ever use anything from samsung on purpose!

funny enough android 11 is indeed not showing this issue on my pixel 3...

i wouldn't say it's "a problem with 10", nor would i wait android to fix it. but for sure it looks to be related!

[cauerego]

using eon player there was an interesting development... it could create a favourites list of its own, but any other playlist, created by it or outside, would bring an error message and not work at all.

edit: and then, after a few minutes, that also stopped working with the same error message! 🤣

fuck android 10.

[Daksh777]

@cauerego It's because of introduction of scoped storage. The only solution is to use a custom database, check this issue which has been reported to Google issue tracker:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/147619577

[cauerego]

@Daksh777 makes sense... and it's also refreshing to finally find a player that do that! retro music (which you are part of, huh).

but android 11 also enforces saf and show no such issue, so that still doesn't feel like the whole story.