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Portable Devices / problems syncing playlists with Samsung Galaxy S9, Android 10, and Samsung Music

« on: February 14, 2020, 08:10:20 PM »

Recently my Samsung Galaxy S9 upgraded to Android 10, and Google Play Music stopped showing album art (among the other problems like occasionally losing playlists), so I moved to Samsung Music.  I've been using MusicBee for several years and several phones, but now when I try to sync the playlists/music, I'm having problems.

I'm trying to sync the music to the SD card, and I don't really care where the playlists go.

- Using the storage path SM-G960U1\Card\ with PLA, and sending the playlist to device, I get the error:
"Copy Failed - A device attached to the system is not functions. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007001F)"
for the playlist, and the SD card becomes unreachable until I disconnect/reconnect the phone.

- If I set the playlist type to M3U, I successfully get a playlist on the device.  When accessed in MusicBee's device menu, I can play the list, and it shows me the music files in the location SM-G960U1\Card\Music\...  The M3U file is in the Playlist directory on the SD card, as intended.

- The problem here is that the Samsung Music app detects the playlist, but not any of the music, so it shows up empty.  If I open the playlist file, the music files are listed in \Music, without any reference to the SD card, so I assume it's looking in the phone main memory.  Other older M3U files in that same directory (from previous versions of MusicBee?) have some sort of reference to the SD card, but not this one.

Thanks for any ideas.  I would think this is a pretty common setup.

John S.

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Questions / merging two libraries?

« on: January 23, 2020, 04:18:29 PM »

I have two MusicBee libraries on two different computers and would like to merge them -- including playlists, import history, counts, etc.  I can just move all the music files manually, as there should be little if any overlap.

The simplest way would just be to import the music files from one into the other, but that wouldn't preserve the other information.  I've also looked to see if there is some export/import functionality, where they could be exported into a neutral format (like csv), manually combined, and imported into a new library, but haven't found anything like that.

There was a discussion four years ago:
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=18032.0
but I'm hoping a better solution may have arisen.

Thanks,
John S.

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Portable Devices / playlists on samsung captivate (android)

« on: August 04, 2011, 05:36:10 AM »

Previously I've used MusicBee with great success on my Palm Centro, and now I got a Samsung Captivate (Android 2.2) and updated MusicBee to the latest.  When I attach the device in DTM mode, MusicBee can see it, and after a bunch of attempts, it miraculously started to see the music and playlists on the card.

The old playlists, however, are showing up as empty.  (The filenames are kind of strange, however, in the form *.pla.m3u.)  Even a new playlist, that I created from MusicBee in a prior session, is showing up as empty.  (This one is just *.pla, though.)  The old ones aren't seen and don't play in the default music player on the phone, which could make sense if the music player doesn't recognize *.m3u, but the new ones can play.

Oh, and the first time I transferred a playlist from MusicBee to this device, it corrupted the *.mp3 file and sent a *.alb file with the album art.

So my questions:
- Is there any way I can recover the old *.pla.m3u playlists that I created in MusicBee on the old device (which are still on the card)?
- Why when I create a new playlist from MusicBee does it later show up empty in MusicBee?
- If I create a new playlist in the default Android music player, why doesn't MusicBee see it?

Thanks,
John S.

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Portable Devices / synching artwork

« on: November 15, 2010, 05:37:03 AM »

First of all, great program!

I'm synching MP3 files to my Palm Centro as an MTP device using MusicBee 1.2.3875 (Win7 64-bit).  All the MP3 files already have artwork embedded, but this disappeared when the files were copied to the device.  Previously I had copied the files manually, and the artwork had shown up.

So I went to preferences/device, and saw the "do not copy artwork" radio button is selected.  Does this imply that MusicBee is stripping out the artwork as it copies the files?  I tried to change it to "embed artwork in the music file", but it won't allow me to select either of the other radio buttons.  Why is this?

Thanks,
John S.