playing music directly from "my files" folder and external sd card

[human]

Hello everyone, I have an SIII but no one seems to be viewing those forums so I thought I would ask here. I've always stored my music in folders sorted by artist and never bothered with tagging as long as the file names started with numbers. I have over 300 gigs in music so I'm not about to start tagging now. my 32 gig sd card has 4500 music files.

The music player doesn't play nice with my sorting - artist view winds up showing the same artists 10 times or sorts out compiltation albums while folder view has every single album (300-400 or so) sorted alphabetically.

I would like to go into the external sd card and play directly from there. I can do that, but only a single track will play and you can't use any other apps or browse when the track plays. Am I stupid or something?

This is the main reason why I've always used Cowon music players or my sansa clip, I can simply go into folders and play. I have media monkey and love it but even there I use the folder directory.

Any ideas or help appreciated! Oh and I hate dealing with synchronization on any device because it never works like I want it to . . . or simply takes way to much effort to work properly.

[human]

So I'll answer myself. Installed Poweramp free trial and that seems to work I guess I'll have to shell out the 5 bucks. Once you have it go into settings, scan everywhere. Now for some reason it will leave out the main "Artist" folders i have and simply list all the contents. To fix this I went into settings / music folders / umselected anything not on the sd card and then selected one of the sub directories (which was automatically "set" as unselected) on the card and that automatically selected all the rest. So decent enough fix for me. I guess album listings are ok when you have 20-30 albums but with 300-400 it's a pain (some discographies for one artist have 20-30 albums)


link to another discussion on the topic: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...1296956&page=2