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Portable Devices / Re: Slow Sync with Android Device

« on: August 22, 2022, 02:59:02 PM »

So, after the original suggestion by BoringName to copy music onto the device first before doing a Wifi Sync, I tried it and it worked a lot quicker.
It doesn't seem to be as quick now, although that could be due to a bigger bulk of songs being transferred.
It has also failed every time, without passing 20%.
But another issue has arisen: my player has now duplicates of most of the artist starting with A and beyond.

So I think my player has read my SD card and updated the player. And then when I do the Wifi Sync, it's then started re-copying all the files?

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Portable Devices / Re: Slow Sync with Android Device

« on: August 19, 2022, 04:46:41 PM »

So it didn't work immediately, I had to try a few different paths, delete a few seemingly useless folders.
But eventually, it synced and worked, and I now have playlists on my players!

My original and ABSOLUTE BANE OF MY LIFE, is that I still get duplicates FROM the playlist songs appearing in the albums from the artists.
But hoping that's because I haven't yet done a 'big sync' with the music I've transferred to the SD card.

So will report back when I've done that, although I'm getting the classic "a non-recoverable error occurred...." at the moment.

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Portable Devices / Re: Slow Sync with Android Device

« on: August 16, 2022, 04:22:02 PM »

Lol, the wonders a fresh pair of eyes can do.......
Well that was stupid of me!
The SanDisk is my new SD card, replacing the Samsung one.
Right, I'll try it all again and get back to you!
Thanks 

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Portable Devices / Re: Slow Sync with Android Device

« on: August 16, 2022, 03:53:31 PM »

Here you go dude!

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Portable Devices / Re: Slow Sync with Android Device

« on: August 16, 2022, 12:33:39 AM »

I followed your advice and did that.
Created the "playlists" folder, then tried again. But it hasn't worked. The folder is empty after a sync!

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Portable Devices / Re: Slow Sync with Android Device

« on: August 14, 2022, 01:24:55 PM »

Right, so I'm not interested in Reverse Sync.

Just need to figure out how to get my playlists properly sorted now.
The files are copying, but I guess not the playlist file that's supposed to organise them into a playlist?
There's no playlist folder on my phone/SD card.

In my device settings, on the fly conversion is blank.
In my library settings - playlists:
Exported Playlists is set to M3U. Which has definitely worked before and should be fine no?
'use relative file paths' and 'use unix paths convention' and 'map base file paths in exported playlists' are all unticked.

In my device settings, in playlist storage, how should I have that set?
I've currently got it as Samsung Memory Card\music\playlists\
I've not ticked 'create a sub-folder for each playlist and its tracks.
Save as M3U.
And 'use relative paths' is ticked.
(I should probably send a screenshot, haven't quite figured out how to do that here yet...).

Again, thanks for your continued help!

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Portable Devices / Re: Slow Sync with Android Device

« on: August 11, 2022, 09:38:36 PM »

The tracks did copy, but they don't appear as "playlists" in my music players (trying both Media Monkey and Omnia).

What format is the playlist that's being synced?
Have you confirmed that the player(s) on the phone can accept that format?

GoneMad and PowerAmp are the two Android players that allow reverse syncing via MB's WiFi Sync app. Since both have free trials, I suggest trying one or both and see if you get better results.

I have had these same playlists on both Omnia and Media Monkey before.
It's worked before.

As for the playlist format? What do you mean?
How do I find that out?

And what's reverse sync? Should I need that? I don't care about plays on my phone affecting MusicBee on my laptop and such.

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Portable Devices / Re: Slow Sync with Android Device

« on: August 08, 2022, 02:55:09 PM »

You mean copy the songs/folders/files onto the SD card, regular standard transfer, and THEN do the wifi sync (should one always do "preview" instead of "sync now"?).

Yes, copy them manually with a regular transfer. When I first changed over to musicbee from itunes I found a lot of inconsistent tag data especially with the album artist field. So while that was getting fixed up I would do a preview to get an idea of how long it's going to take. But don't bother so much now. From what I have seen, playlists get re-synced every time.

I assumed you were just copying your entire library over which should make it easy. Just copy everything in your music folder on the PC to the music folder on the android device. If you are only syncing a playlist that makes things more complicated as you will need to copy over all the individual songs in the playlist and maintain the folder structure.

Once you have copied them over, run the wifi sync. That will sync your playlists (copy them to the device) and check all the songs in the playlists are on the device, if not it will copy any over that you missed.

If you didn't miss anything, the wifi sync should be pretty quick.

I was actually doing a playlist based sync. My entire library is too big. So I created a playlist "For Phone" just to transfer a big bulk of music, alongside my 'normal' playlists.
I opted to JUST try that "For Phone" playlist first, with about 40g of music. And I transferred the specific artists first onto the SD card.
You were right. It was much much quicker.

Then, I ticked a few more common playlists, without transferring the files beforehand, thinking I'd do them one by one or two by two, even if it takes longer (because copying over the individual songs and maintaining the structure seems very annoying).
The tracks did copy, but they don't appear as "playlists" in my music players (trying both Media Monkey and Omnia).

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Portable Devices / Re: Slow Sync with Android Device

« on: August 07, 2022, 10:55:37 PM »

Same advice as above. Cancel what's happening now and continue by using WifiSync.  It will pick up where you left this sync off.

They are already doing a wifi sync. 420gb is a lot but it's going to be over 50 hours which is quite slow. I think mine took around 8 hours initially and that was over 250gb.

I would copy to the SD card manually then do a wifi sync. Just be patient because it will probably show the loading thing for quite a while as it calculates what needs to be synced. It will still sync all your playlists just fine if you do it this way.

edit: once the bulk of your library is on the SD card the wifi app is very quick compared to a wired sync. I think this is due to how the files can be accessed. When you plug it into the PC, it's basically like a USB stick and MB has to scan the folders to find what files are already on it. It's a slow process. The wifi app has direct access to the file system on the phone so it can determine what files are already on the SD card quite quickly.

Hey dude, thanks so much for the reply (and Frankz!).

Just to get this straight before I try it.
You mean copy the songs/folders/files onto the SD card, regular standard transfer, and THEN do the wifi sync (should one always do "preview" instead of "sync now"?).
If so, I'll give it a shot.
I assume I'll need to make sure the correct albums and songs are transferred before syncing, otherwise I'd get an error?
Oh wait, I guess, it would just transfer them through the sync then...
I'll try it with a smaller batch first maybe?

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Portable Devices / Re: Slow Sync with Android Device

« on: August 06, 2022, 11:24:12 PM »

Hi there, not sure what the policy is on hopping onto/using already existing threads, but a new thread would literally have the same title..!

I'm doing a Wifi Sync as I type, it's been 5 hours, and 9% done.
Gonna take a while 

It's nearly 20K songs, it's 420gigs.
That's big I know, I read on another thread that 120gigs took someone 6 hours, which makes my 420gig speed at the moment make sense.

I guess what I'm wondering is whether there's a quicker way?
If I transfer the files and folders through USB straight onto my SD card (brand new grade 1!), it would take less than an hour.
But the whole point of me doing it this way is so that the playlists sync properly with the android player and I don't have duplicates.

Should I just wait it out?
If I press "Stop", will anything have transferred?
Should I do it in shorter bursts perhaps?

Sorry for the deluge of questions! I'm always so inexperienced and VERY curious about how it all works.
I don't have on-the-fly conversion ticked, or 'create a sub-folder for each playlist'. Figure that would increase the time by a lot!

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Skipping Tracks stay paused if Pause is active

« on: March 02, 2022, 03:26:44 PM »

Hey Hiccup,

Thanks for the reply!
I've never heard of AutoHotKey, I might give it a shot.
My next is actually set to my keyboard right arrow and pause is set to spacebar.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Skipping Tracks stay paused if Pause is active

« on: March 01, 2022, 12:51:54 PM »

Wasn't sure how to word the title there...!

Hope this isn't too petty for the wishlist, figure it might be an easy option but what do I know about how it all works!

Basically, this is for when I've got my whole library on shuffle and want to skip through a few tracks to find the right song (that fits my moooood). So if the current song is paused, when I skip tracks it stays paused until I hit play again.
Think it's ingrained within me from players from my past..

That is alllll, thank you!

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Questions / Re: Skip to next track stays paused.

« on: March 01, 2022, 12:45:48 PM »

Completely forgot I posted this!

Thanks for your reply Mayibongwe!
Didn't know there was a wishlist!
I'll do that now, thanks.

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Questions / Skip to next track stays paused.

« on: February 22, 2022, 12:58:35 PM »

Hello everyone,

Just wondering whether there's a way to STAY PAUSED when I skip to the next track when my current track is paused?
So the next track doesn't start automatically?

Thanks!

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Portable Devices / Re: Duplicate songs from Playlists

« on: February 19, 2022, 10:26:34 AM »

Hey guys, so first of all, I had downloaded a player called Omnia a little while back whilst I was trying to figure stuff out, and after rescanning everything on it, the playlists are there and seem to be in order.

This does seem to be a MediaMonkey issue now, you're right frankz, MusicBee has done its job!

And to answer your question Phred, previously, when I'd manually transferred playlists and folders through file explorer onto the SD card, without using MusicBee, the playlists worked on MediaMonkey, so it CAN read M3U playlists.
But then I would get the duplicate files that I'm trying to avoid in the first place!

For now, I'll just start using Omnia and see how I get along with that!

Thank you both SOOOO much for your help, learnt quite a few things through this! And enjoying having my phone synched through Wifi now with MusicBee!