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Portable Devices / Sync with my Android stopped working. Not sure how to troubleshoot

« on: July 15, 2021, 04:45:16 AM »

It has been months since I've synced, but it was working then.  I plug in my Android phone and change the USB option from charge-only to File Transfer and I try to sync and I get a fairly blank window popup titled "Aborted" that says "Synchronising files scanning device..." but at the bottom it says, "the data is invalid (Exception from HRESULT: 0X8007000D)"

I tried searching that term and found nothing helpful.

I don't really know where to start.  I've uninstalled and reinstalled (now latest) MusicBee and I've removed and re-added the device in preferences.  Clearly MusicBee sees the device, and I can certainly interact with the device from Windows (move, delete files, etc).

Any thoughts on what to do?

I don't know if this is important but the phone is a OnePlus 6 running Android 10.  I'm on Windows 10 (I keep it up to date).

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MusicBee Wishlist / Randomize the first entry in a playlist

« on: November 27, 2020, 07:48:46 PM »

With questions/posts going back 8 years, this seems like such a simple thing with large capacity to annoy!

Random should mean random.  Not random only after the first song.

I *think* I've come up with a simple solution, but I don't know how you'd implement it without expecting the user to do it manually.

Could there be an option to automagically insert a 1 second "blank" mp3 file to the top of the playlist?  That's what I've done manually and it certainly works.  Now when I play the playlist, it still plays the first song everytime, but I don't care because it is only 1 second long.  Everything is randomized after that.

Meanwhile, I have no problem doing it manually myself.

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Portable Devices / Almost there? Sync ratings by wifi using Player Pro?

« on: October 11, 2020, 07:57:18 AM »

I'm trying to get song ratings from my phone to my MusicBee database on my PC.

Method 1 works:  I use PlayerPro and change the Ratings system to MusicBee.  Pros:  half stars works, and I can successfully achieve what I want BUT... Cons:  wired transfer only and I have to manually copy over gigabytes of music.

Method 2 works:  I use PowerAmp + MusicBee wifi sync app.  Pros:  WAY faster sync (I imagine it is sending only the rating and not the whole file?), and it works by WIFI (so much more convenient).  Cons:  I don't really like PowerAmp; half-stars don't work


What I'd like is to continue using PlayerPro, but with MusicBee wifi sync.  Is there some combination of settings that will allow this?  Since PlayerPro saves ratings in native MusicBee format, I'm surprised it doesn't "just work".  But it doesn't... I get "nothing to sync".

Thanks.