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Portable Devices / Re: Two Way Playlist Sync (phone and computer) using MBP and M3U file types?
« on: February 07, 2019, 01:34:49 AM »
I'm looking for the same solution, glad I'm not the only one.
I think I've narrowed it down to Android using it's MediaStorage Framework for playlists instead of .m3u or something like that. As a result, your playlists are stored in a database. Now, if someone smarter than me could write an app to access that storage and convert the playlists there into .m3u files, and probably do it periodically (check every hour or so for changes?) then it would work. If this is possible. It does seems like apps can read and write .m3u files just fine.
It seems like Android music players load the .m3u then save that info to the MediaStorage, and never save any changes to the original .m3u file. I found one obscure old (2013) media player that claims to write to .m3u but it was too clunky for me to even try (its called MortPlayer and its far from Material Design)
I think I've narrowed it down to Android using it's MediaStorage Framework for playlists instead of .m3u or something like that. As a result, your playlists are stored in a database. Now, if someone smarter than me could write an app to access that storage and convert the playlists there into .m3u files, and probably do it periodically (check every hour or so for changes?) then it would work. If this is possible. It does seems like apps can read and write .m3u files just fine.
It seems like Android music players load the .m3u then save that info to the MediaStorage, and never save any changes to the original .m3u file. I found one obscure old (2013) media player that claims to write to .m3u but it was too clunky for me to even try (its called MortPlayer and its far from Material Design)