A Recent Update Reset My Device Playlists to PLA Format

[frankz]

Just a heads up.  I don't update MB as faithfully as I should so I don't know which update started the issue, but after updating my main install yesterday all of my playlists for portable devices (Edit->Edit Preferences->Devices->Select Device->Settings) were changed from M3U8 to PLA.

Simple enough to change them back, but I was going nuts trying to figure out why PowerAmp wasn't picking up my updated playlists and figured someone else might be going through the same thing.  PowerAmp doesn't do PLA.

[Steven]

did you toggle between using v3.4 and v3.3?
And did you notice after doing a sync where it did actually sync with .PLA or did you discover the change simply when looking at the settings before synching?

[frankz]

I may have opened my library in 3.4, but if I did, I did it in a separate portable install.  I did not overwrite the main (installer) version of 3.3 that I use to sync with 3.4 at any time.

It synched the PLA files.  I couldn't figure out why PowerAmp wasn't picking up my playlist changes yesterday.  Today, I looked in the playlist folder and saw PLA files from today and the last M3U8 from 4/13.  That's when I opened MB and saw that the playlist type was changed to PLA.  I thought I may have done it by mistake without remembering going into the settings, but it was the same in all my devices, even devices I no longer have and haven't looked at in MB for some time.

Might it have been the debug version?