The plugin can help to sync music with unrooted Android devices over Wi-Fi.
Description
Its a well known issue that you can't get file access to unrooted Android devices via Wi-Fi and hence can't sync MusicBee with Android devices via Wi-Fi. One possible solution is to setup a local PC folder as virtual device in MusicBee and sync MusicBee with that 'device', then you can use 3d party apps (e.g. Resilio Sync (recommended) or Cheetah Sync) to sync PC folder with Android folder via Wi-Fi. But this solution has one disadvantage: all synced files will be duplicated on PC. This plugin can help in this situation. It will create own virtual device 'Sync Links' in MusicBee and will create hard links or symbolic links to original library media files in some folder on syncing. Hard links/symbolic links occupy very little space on HDD (though Windows Explorer shows the sizes of original files, not the actual sizes of links).
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How to install and use
Extract content of archive to plugins subfolder of MusicBee installation folder (e.g. to "c:\program files\musicbee\plugins"). To configure plugin go to 'Edit> Preferences> Plugins'.
Uninstallation
Go to 'Edit> Preferences> Plugins'. Click 'Uninstall'. Plugin will delete all automatically created files (e.g. settings), but you need to exit MusicBee and manually delete all files that were included in plugin .zip.
License
Do all you want with plugin binary and source code at your own risk.
Plugin status
Working for all users at the time of posting.
Source code
MS VS 2015 project, C#. Most people don't need this:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zdibmnl9s5o0a9c/Sync_Links_2017-02-26.rar
Backup download (Google Drive, all my plugins and their sources)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-D1MoIY406HMzlJVWprYXF1Q0k?usp=sharing
Name | Sync Links |
Author | boroda |
Version | 4.1 |
Category | Plugins |
Published on | September 3, 2016 |
Updated on | July 8, 2021, 8:43 am |
Supports Minimum | MusicBee 3 |
Unless mentioned by the Author, all add-ons and screenshots are licensed under cc by-sa 3.0