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Portable Devices / Re: syncing and access questions - android

« on: October 27, 2018, 04:37:23 PM »

I'm not sure what you're asking.  I haven't used iTunes in many years.

I have an iPod Touch and an Android phone.  MediaMonkey has a driver for i-devices and it has an Android App.  If I was to use MediaMonkey on the desktop and the app on my phone, all of my play data would stay synchronized between both of my devices and my library. 

The down side is that I'd have to use MediaMonkey all the time and not MusicBee.  That's not a compromise I'm willing to make.

Ah, OK, so media Monkey is another library like iTunes Library and Music Bee is?  It is BOTH a mobile app AND a desk top library?  I was thinking it was JUST a mobile app.  Thx.

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Portable Devices / Re: syncing and access questions - android

« on: October 27, 2018, 03:04:53 PM »

So frankz, a question (seriously).  Does media monkey do that (what I want) for your iTunes?  I just want to clarify.  Thanks

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Portable Devices / Re: syncing and access questions - android

« on: October 27, 2018, 03:01:21 PM »

t it.
Because it's patented and that would be illegal theft of IP?

Dude, MediaMonkey does what you want.  You can keep tilting at windmills and being confrontational for no reason and to no ultimate effect (it's not going to happen no matter how much you argue it), or you can do what works. 

Using me as an example, this is functionality that I would greatly enjoy, and I did enjoy it when I used MediaMonkey. But, after using MusicBee, I realized that the desktop experience was much more important to me, and MusicBee offers a vastly superior desktop experience when compared to everything else out there.  So it's a trade off.  If that type of sync is your primary need and you're willing to sacrifice a lot of desktop experience to get it, then you have your solution elsewhere. If you enjoy the MB desktop experience and are willing to sacrifice the sync experience to get it, then you have your solution here.  Not trying to be severe, just adding a dose of reality.

Every once in a while I check to see if anyone has come up with a workaround, and find out they haven't, so I go back to being quietly frustrated in sync but massively happy on the desktop.  We all have to accept these things and move on eventually.

Well frankz, you do make a powerful argument to remember the serenity prayer.  You are correct.  I now listen almost exclusively from MB on my desk top, but I still travel much too often and am in my work van at least 3 hours a day and I have literally hundreds of gigs of music to go through (all my ratings and playlists were lost over a year ago when my computer crashed, so I'm still rebuilding those and the most time I have for that is while driving) which will probably take a few years, never mind the fact that I add at least 50 gigs a music a year to my library.

I will continue to search, continue to be frustrated, and continue to deal with it.  I have no other choice.  I just get annoyed when I see that we can wirelessly charge a battery, put a Tesla on Mars, but we still can't put metal in a microwave.

This is on my agenda to do someday, but I've found that while I'm taking the classes I don't really have time to USE the knowledge...

Well, I will be praying that you find the time my friend.  It was one of the things I was going to pay someone to do for me (and the rest of humanity), but I didn't win the $1.6 Billion lottery.  Apparently... neither did you.

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Portable Devices / Re: syncing and access questions - android

« on: October 26, 2018, 04:28:32 AM »

Apple and Honda have hundreds of thousands of employees and R&D budgets in the hundreds of millions (perhaps billions) of dollars.

Yes, budget, staff, time. Also, this is one of the advantages of Apple's proprietary system. Everything is predictable and they can make it work exactly the way they want to, by sacrificing the potential for flexibility and user choice.

Exactly my point.  They have huge budgets, capital, and staff.  They've already done the hard work.  Code is code which is code and translates into code.  Can no one access Apple code on things?  ie:  Open it up, see how it works, replicate, improve, augment?  This isn't a challenge to anyone's knowledge or expertise or to insult.  It's more of a philosophical, but real and open question.  If you showed me pages of computer code, I wouldn't know whether to shit or wind my watch with it, but there are thousands of people who can read that "language" and understand it, rewrite it, and change it.  

I just don't understand why there are people who can write bugs, viruses, backdoor software and do it for kicks, but no one can open up an Apple box, and augment some things and create something which has a huge market demand for PC.  I just don't get it.

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Portable Devices / Re: syncing and access questions - android

« on: October 26, 2018, 12:09:24 AM »

what i can do is create an API that allows other developers of android players to create a plugin so MB is able to get playcount and ratings from the device. I would like to have a developer contact me with interest to do this before i do it on my side though.
but do you really want tags being updated 2-way? That sounds like a recipe for something to go badly wrong with your primary library and not something i would be prepared to attempt.

I get why Steven doesn't have time to make an mobile app, I barely have time to take a shit every day, let alone develop software.  However, my question isn't directly to Steven, but it does have to do with his statement above that I emboldened.

Why is that a recipe for something to go badly wrong?  I'm 3/4 of a technical moron, so I certainly couldn't even create a computer graphic logo of a bumblee, let alone and entire library for music on a computer.  But I still have to ask that question to those who DO know computers:  Why is that a recipe for something to go badly wrong?  Apple did it?  And they did an AMAZING job of it.  So why can't anyone else do it?

Please tell me where my logic is wrong here:

It's like someone looking at a Honda Civic, completely replicating (and improving) the engine, frame, drivetrain and body, but somehow not being able to figure out how to make the axles and the wheels so it can actually go somewhere.  Why can one company do it, but NO ONE ON THE ENTIRE PLANET can do it.  Again, I'm not talking about Steven specifically here, but what am I missing?

I do custom woodworking.  I can take a design, and completely replicate and often improve anything I see.  I can do it with different woods, different joinery techniques, different finishes, different tools, etc.  Some things are harder than others obviously, but it can still be done.  My brother owns a vitamin company.  He has taken other people's formulas, improved upon them, and then sold that product very successfully.  I do not comprehend why Apple is the ONLY GROUP OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD that have been able to do these things.  Again, please tell me where my logic is flawed and why my frustration is in vain.

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Portable Devices / Re: Two Way Playlist Sync (phone and computer) using MBP and M3U file types?

« on: October 25, 2018, 11:47:23 PM »

I have tried/am trying double twist now as well.  Here is my situation as of now:

1. I get a message in DT saying that "Found Songs Protected with DRM" so it can't sync those songs (although it does not tell me which songs those are [insert Pissed off face]).  
2. DT does not recognize my Music Bee library.  It only recognizes my iTunes library on my computer.
3. I did (at one time, not anymore, not quite sure what happened) get it to recognize and upload all my playlists onto my android however, it didn't add all the songs in each playlist, yet it still uploaded all the songs to my android.  Example.  I have a "general" playlist.  It has 1,269 songs.  When I opened that playlist on my phone, there was only 33 songs in it.  Yet, I had all 1,269 songs in my phone that I could retrieve either through "song" or "artist" or "album" but not in that playlist.
4.  When I played a song on my phone, rated that same song, on my phone (all through DT), then synced my phone again to my computer via DT, it did not increase play count by one, nor did it add my star rating.

Conclusion:  So far, DT has been pretty much a complete failure.  Now I can't even get it to sync with my phone anymore.  It says it's synching, takes HOURS, never finishes, and then hardly anything is on my phone.

I am starting to regret getting an android after always having an iPhone, yet I can't F$#*ing stand Apple.  But, I also MUST admit, Apple does a few things better, and one thing they do GREAT is, having a program that seamlessly syncs and manages music between mobile device and computer.  For the last year, I have been using MB thinking that it was ALSO a mobile app and does everything iTunes does.  It was only about 2 or 3 days before I got my Android, that I discovered it IS NOT a mobile app and is ONLY for PC.  It really sucks given the fact that it is even better than iTunes library, yet it's so hard to get a mobile app to work with it.

This whole process has been nothing but frustrating, and although I feel like throwing my hands up, exchanging my Galaxy Note 9 and just getting another fucking iPhone... I still seek.  I can't IMAGINE there is NO ONE who doesn't want the same things I want in a cross syncing mobile music player/home base music media storage that is NOT Apple based, that hasn't figured it out yet.  It is INCONCEIVABLE to me that NO ONE has done it.   Yet.... it alludes me.

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Questions / Re: What would need to be done to make 2 way sync work across devices?

« on: October 20, 2018, 07:34:05 PM »

EuroMIX, if you actually developed a compatible MB Mobile app, that not only synced play counts, but synced ratings as well AND synced songs into playlists via mobile app, I would be indebted to you until my dying day.  I'm still trying to find something that does those three things (or two or even one).  I would also name my first child after you even though an American with name Euromix would be odd.

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Questions / Re: Volume on random songs gong up and down

« on: October 14, 2018, 10:45:37 PM »

Great! Thx Phred!

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Questions / Re: Volume on random songs gong up and down

« on: October 14, 2018, 05:19:51 PM »

There's no way to highlight multiple tracks and then do it, is there?  Or do I have to do that with each individual track I find like that?

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Questions / Re: Volume on random songs gong up and down

« on: October 13, 2018, 07:42:57 PM »

Thx Phred, that worked.  Now it's time for A LOT of work. 

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Questions / Re: Volume on random songs gong up and down

« on: October 13, 2018, 05:17:40 PM »

And it's not throughout an album.  As an example Album X from Artist X tracks 1,3,4,7,9 will do it, the rest wont.  On Album Y from Artist Y, tracks 1,4,6,7, & 10 will do it, none of the others.  It's completely random, but it's always the same songs on the same albums.

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Questions / Re: Volume on random songs gong up and down

« on: October 13, 2018, 05:13:59 PM »

Yes, every time I play the same song, and its throughout the entire song on a constant up and down wave.  It's very consistent as if someone keeps rotating their hand on the volume button every second, non stop.

Same song played on iTunes is perfect, no volume inconsistencies.  As, I've started listening to music via MB lately rather than iTunes on my computer, it happens with A LOT of songs.  My guess so far, at least 50% of the tracks.

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Questions / Volume on random songs gong up and down

« on: October 13, 2018, 03:34:25 PM »

There doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason why, but on certain songs it sounds like someone is going back and forth with the volume knob constantly.  Any ideas as to why and how to resolve?  Thank you.

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Questions / Re: Trying to transfer from iTunes to Music Bee

« on: October 06, 2018, 05:13:33 AM »

Anybody?  Bueller?  Is this thing on?

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Questions / Re: Trying to transfer from iTunes to Music Bee

« on: October 02, 2018, 05:00:00 AM »

So, I'm still missing songs in playlists.