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Portable Devices / Help Syncing Playlists – Duplicates Loaded To Device (FULL)
« on: October 02, 2018, 08:17:15 PM »
I’m afraid this likely something that’s been posted before (and I have checked) that has yet to offer a solution to the problem:
Playlist syncing to devices to your device and it causing the song(s) to be duplicated on your device.
There are two separate problems likely with the same cause that I do not know how to get around.
#1 Let’s say I’ve manually added “Cal Tjader – Mood For Milt” to my device (Astell & Kern AK70 if anyone’s wondering) months ago. Later, I decide to create a playlist in MB called “Autumn Jazz Playlist”. I want to sync that playlist to my device so I do… and what happens is on my device, “Cal Tjader – Mood For Milt” is on there twice. Same exact file, no manual changes made to it at all.
#2 Let’s say I’ve recently added “Bad Rabbits – Get Up And Go” to my library and I put it on 2 playlists (List A, and List B).
Certainly it gets loaded to my device if I sync List A. But then when I sync List B, “Bad Rabbits – Get Up And Go” gets duplicated on my device, even though nothing’s changed about the file.
Last year, I thought the reason was because I was just right clicking on the playlist and sending to the device. Then I read what I could read and went “Ah! I should be doing a device sync instead. Maybe that’ll fix it!” Fraid not. Even when I preview the sync, it says it’s going to copy most of the files I know are already on the device, so I don’t do it. [see attachment]
It’s a bit of a nightmare and I’m a little surprised there are very few existing posts about this (unless many have been deleted). All the ones I’ve seen are unresolved or perhaps the person had a different concern vs. what they wrote in the topic header.
PROPS to the admins, I know there’s little time to reply to everything and it’s in their best time interests to keep replies concise. But I really would be grateful to know whether this is something I’m doing wrong, something the MB system can’t accommodate (variation in devices, etc.) or something that’s being worked on or could be worked on. Any answer is fine, I’m certainly not complaining about freeware.
If you’re a non-admin user and know how to overcome this, if you can please handle with kid gloves in explaining step by step what I may be doing wrong?
Thank you.
BTW, I am using Version 3.2.6827
Playlist syncing to devices to your device and it causing the song(s) to be duplicated on your device.
There are two separate problems likely with the same cause that I do not know how to get around.
#1 Let’s say I’ve manually added “Cal Tjader – Mood For Milt” to my device (Astell & Kern AK70 if anyone’s wondering) months ago. Later, I decide to create a playlist in MB called “Autumn Jazz Playlist”. I want to sync that playlist to my device so I do… and what happens is on my device, “Cal Tjader – Mood For Milt” is on there twice. Same exact file, no manual changes made to it at all.
#2 Let’s say I’ve recently added “Bad Rabbits – Get Up And Go” to my library and I put it on 2 playlists (List A, and List B).
Certainly it gets loaded to my device if I sync List A. But then when I sync List B, “Bad Rabbits – Get Up And Go” gets duplicated on my device, even though nothing’s changed about the file.
Last year, I thought the reason was because I was just right clicking on the playlist and sending to the device. Then I read what I could read and went “Ah! I should be doing a device sync instead. Maybe that’ll fix it!” Fraid not. Even when I preview the sync, it says it’s going to copy most of the files I know are already on the device, so I don’t do it. [see attachment]
It’s a bit of a nightmare and I’m a little surprised there are very few existing posts about this (unless many have been deleted). All the ones I’ve seen are unresolved or perhaps the person had a different concern vs. what they wrote in the topic header.
PROPS to the admins, I know there’s little time to reply to everything and it’s in their best time interests to keep replies concise. But I really would be grateful to know whether this is something I’m doing wrong, something the MB system can’t accommodate (variation in devices, etc.) or something that’s being worked on or could be worked on. Any answer is fine, I’m certainly not complaining about freeware.
If you’re a non-admin user and know how to overcome this, if you can please handle with kid gloves in explaining step by step what I may be doing wrong?
Thank you.
BTW, I am using Version 3.2.6827
