Random playlists

So as you all know walkman can't create playlists by folder so I used a 3rd party app to do it. However I was still not able to do it so walkman could recognise it. In the end however I created the wanted playlists but a new problem appeared. Here's the screenshot from my Z2:
Can someone actually tell me how I can find and delete these random 03344640-1c69 etc etc playlists. Where are they located? I tried using Clean Master app to clean junk but it didn't help. Any apps or other things out there that could help me here?
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First I tried creating playlists using My Playlist Maker and selected SDcard folder. The app itself told the playlists were successfully created but I didn't see them to appear. Then I tried doing it again and again the same. Now as you mention that 3rd party apps can't write to SD maybe that's why I was not able to create the playlists.
Later, I connected my phone with USB and created playlists with Playlist Creator on PC and put them on SDcard. I was able to create all the playlists I need but at the same time on Walkman app those random numbered playlists also appeared. So now I don't know if this is related to My Playlist Maker or Playlist Creator or none at all. However I can see that those random playlists are on internal memory as I tried to remove SDcard and my created playlists disappeared on walkman but the random ones stayed.

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prusti wrote:
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