topic Re: Cannot delete playlist from Walkman in Z Series

Cannot delete playlist from Walkman

marky_mark — Sat, 31 May 2014 13:04:00 GMT

Hi -

Just got a Z1 compact and went to put my micro sd card from my old phone into the sony. Everything is fine except i cannot delete playlists from the My Playlists section of Walkman. The playlists have no content in them, i can't add content to them, and i can't delete them. How do i get rid of them????

Suspect they have to be on the SD somewhere but cannot find them by searching the name or the file type .m3u. Any idea how i find and delete these ghost playlists??

thanks in advance!

Re: Cannot delete playlist from Walkman

_alexdon_ — Sat, 31 May 2014 13:11:55 GMT

try this: settings-apps-all-media storage,force stop and clear data.Restart.

Re: Cannot delete playlist from Walkman

marky_mark — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 01:19:34 GMT

Cheers! Problem solved instantly

Re: Cannot delete playlist from Walkman

_alexdon_ — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 07:43:35 GMT

Indeed.

Re: Cannot delete playlist from Walkman

tb — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 22:13:45 GMT

Beauty thanks worked for me too

Re: Cannot delete playlist from Walkman

FeargalÓG — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 01:17:37 GMT

Hi,

I'd just like you to know that havin already tried EZ File Manager and manual deletion via USB I still couldn't delete certain non-working tracks from the Walkman app, and although I thought your advice seemed potentially dangerous, I tried it as you're a moderator so I trusted it was some 'combination' that was safe. Anyway, long story short I wiped all the media on my phone and SD, of which there was plenty, amassed over a lot of time (the music in particular).

If I can't retrieve backups of the music, I'll be very angry with you. (The photos and videos were mostly backed up recently). I don't know if this was some weird, cruel joke for frustrated clueless phone users (not thinking straight late at night, in my case) but if it was, you've caused me to delete everything, and I hope you're happy with yourself.

-Feargal

Re: Cannot delete playlist from Walkman

barani — Wed, 13 May 2015 07:58:37 GMT

THANKS ALOT

Re: Cannot delete playlist from Walkman

_alexdon_ — Wed, 13 May 2015 10:24:27 GMT

Anytime.

Re: Cannot delete playlist from Walkman

Ceekay — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 10:21:15 GMT

What exactly does this delete?

Re: Cannot delete playlist from Walkman

_alexdon_ — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 10:25:32 GMT

Nothing,it only reindexes the media on your device.

Re: Cannot delete playlist from Walkman

T800 — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 18:49:12 GMT

@alexdon wrote:
try this: settings-apps-all-media storage,force stop and clear data.Restart.

Thnx So Much Dude It Worked Perfectly I Though i have and Xperia S ^^

Re: Cannot delete playlist from Walkman

JakovSmirnov — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:30:04 GMT

How is this good?

I pay $250 for a phone from Sony of all companies who cannot even include a way to clear the"Now Playing" list without clearing app data storage in Settings FFS?!

Or dear Sony customer you can delete eachand every of 300+_ songs individually! Enjoy mr customer!

Once I do as Gayfdalf say all data is rendered inaccessible from the music player on the phone. Again FFS.

Re: Cannot delete playlist from Walkman

LastDragonborn — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 14:42:36 GMT

Works alright, but my xperia x5 premium didnt show any media at all for 10 minutes, i think everything came back but it was slow.

Re: Cannot delete playlist from Walkman

cobbler — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 09:38:18 GMT

I have the very same problem on the latest music app from Sony, I am just about to attempt the solution on this thread, may I ask, is it nessessary to force stop but do the rest as per the accepted solution?

Reason for asking is that I am always worried to force stop an app.

EDIT:

Ok, I looked in the Play Music app that came with the phone and I saw the three items in the playlist there, it had an option to delete and I don't see two of them now on the Music Sony app, but one still remains.

Edit:

Ok, went for it as per solution and it worked, thanks for this forum.

Strange though that the Play Music app managed to get rid of 2 of the items, I imagine that the Play Music app might have been the culprit for those two items but hey at least the solution worked and they are gone.