How does sync work?

[PeterS]

Hi,

I've just installed MusicBee as I thought it might help organise my music on an android phone. Seems MusicBee works by syncing with the drive that appears on Windows.  I can't see how to choose which albums should go on that drive.  If I hit the "sync" button it starts copying music - possibly my entire collection?  The entire collection won't fit on the phone!  Am I doing something stupid?

I couldn't even see how to put just one album on the drive.  If I drag the album, the mouse pointer gets a + sign on it as I move over the Music bit on the mounted drive but when I  let go, nothing happens.

Thanks.

Peter

[Steven]

on the device settings tab in the preferences screen, you can set auto-synch settings.
I suggest you create a playlist with the album files you want to synch and then set the auto-synch to synch that playlist only

you should be able to drag/drop files manually but probably not to the root folder - drill down on the folders in the Devices section in the left navigator, and drop the files to a sub-folder of Music

[PeterS]

For testing I'm just using a USB flash drive.  I created L:\Music and re-started Music Bee.  I still can't drag an album into the Storage\Music folder.

Creating a playlist for every album sounds like a bit of a pain.  The idea is to replace the Nokia Ovi software I use now.  I just right click and say "Send to device".  It goes off doing that in the background and I can queue up a few more.

Maybe I should just use Windows drag and drop to the music folder - was hoping MusicBee might be a nicer solution.

Thanks for replying anyway.

Peter