If you have your Music Files stashed away in Folders just like I do and have a huge MicroSD Card that can accommodate almost all of your favorite music and your only qualm happens to be the lack of a good Music Player for your Android Phone then stress not……Help is at hand. I too have been looking at numerous ways and means to make my job simple when it came to managing my music.
Although Winamp for Android offers several good features like desktop sync with Winamp 5.6, 4X1 & 4x2 Widgets, Lock-screen Player, Playlist shortcuts and more, I felt it had one important feature missing and that was about Playlist Creation. The Syncing feature is good but what if we have separate folders for the various genres of music or for the best of your collection or something like that…. think on the lines of Collection ‘A’ being your entire Music Collection and another Collection ‘B’ a Sub-set of the entire collection which has been heavily filtered to accommodate only the very best of music that you own simply because unlike on your desktop, space comes at a premium on Micro SD Cards. In such a cases Playlist creation for Collection ‘B’ becomes almost impossible to add them on a one by one basis. So here is the solution for creating Playlists that can be made use of on your default Music Player or Winamp or most likely any other 3rd party player.
Steps:-
1) Install ‘Winamp’ from the Android Market. It’s a Free Application
2) Search for another Free App called ‘PlayListGenerator’. A very small application @ just about 600KB.
3) Download and Install the App from the Market.
4) Once done, fire up the App and the interface as you will see is a breeze to use. You have just three buttons to click on the Top.
5) Click the ‘Select’ button to choose the Folder where your Music resides. Do note that you don’t have to traverse to the last folder in the Folder structure. Example:- If you have ‘Best of English’ as the Root Folder and then Sub-Folders like ‘ColdPlay’, ‘Bryan Adams’, ‘Hoobastank’ etc, just pointing to the root folder ‘Best of English’ will do.
6) Once selected, Click the ‘Create List’ button and voila your playlist will be created with the same name having been taken as the Root Folder that was chosen viz in this case, ‘Best of English’ and is automatically placed in a location where both your default music player and Winamp can use simultaneously.
7) 7) Deletion of Playlists is also easy with just one button deletion as shown below
8) That’s it. You are now good to go. Play your favorite music through Winamp or any other Music Player.
Simple aint it? Thanks to RDW and Nullsoft who are the developers of these Apps.