Playlist? What Playlist?

[kerravonsen]

Have solved my android playlist problem! What problem? The problem that I want to be able to create .m3u playlists on my computer, copy them over to my phone, and play that playlist on my phone. But, hey, all these music players that CLAIM to support playlists only mean that you can create playlists by manually adding one song at a time, inside the app. What a waste of my time!

But I found a simple music app "Little Music Player" which understands .m3u playlists. I do have to convert the playlists so that they point to the files as they are on the android device rather than on my computer, but that's easily scriptable. Which I did.

This problem moved to the top of my to-do list because of another problem: my new bluetooth device which plugs into my stereo system to make it bluetooth enabled, so that I can send music to it via bluetooth. Which I thought I would do via my computer. But it doesn't work. Oh, the computer thinks that it's connected, and the bluetooth device beeps correctly to indicate that it's connected... but no sound comes out. On the other hand, my phone connects to the bluetooth device with no trouble.

Hence, wanting my existing playlists to be able to be played on my phone, so that they can be played on the BIG SPEAKERS of my stereo system instead of the tiny speakers which are on my computer and/or phone.

So yay!

Comments

[thewayne]

That sucks about the play list editing. Yeah, everyone wants you to use /their/ method, user convenience be damned.

My last two receivers have built-in BT receivers, never had a problem connecting my phone to them. I have more of a problem /disconnecting/ my phone to get it back into an A/V mode! But it is nice to crank Pink Floyd through my B&Ws!

[kerravonsen]

Yeah, my stereo system happens to be 35 years old, built long before Bluetooth was invented. Hence the need to buy a separate Bluetooth device to plug in to it. Now that I think about it, it is rather amazing that music technology has stayed compatible with itself for that long! But RCA cables are still the standard, and they still work.

The primary motive for me to get it all connected up via Bluetooth is because the CD player in the system stopped working recently, even though everything else does. Okay, the record player stopped working too, a few months ago, but I can get a replacement record player (just did, in fact). Looked online but I could not find a separate CD component to plug in to the existing system, not without throwing everything away and getting an entirely new system, which seemed rather a waste if I couldn't work around the problem. Which I now have, since my entire CD collection is already ripped to MP3 and is on my computer, and a subset of that is on my phone.

[thewayne]

I replaced my Marantz a decade or so ago, it had developed a problem.  Bought an Onkyo from an Amazon yard sale (can't remember the name of the mailing list off-hand) that was a refurb.  Main reason that I got it was that it had an HDMI switch built-in, which I really needed.  Turned out to be a very bad purchase, a couple of years later the switch failed.  I was able to get it repaired at a local stereo repair shop, but the repair didn't last.  Replaced it 2-3 years ago with a really nice Sony A/V receiver from Best Buy and have been very happy with it.  First piece of Sony audio equipment that I've bought, in the past I've never had that great an opinion of their gear.