Author Topic: Musicbee transfers empty playlists to Android device  (Read 4670 times)

Bubba J

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After I sync to my Android device, my playlist are copied but empty. I have tried various playlist formats and all have the same result. PLA copies half empty and half full.

sageleader

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I'm having the same issue. Tried all playlist versions and the ones I select don't all sync correctly. At least some are always empty.

sageleader

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I appear to have finally fixed this issue! I'm not sure if it's on 3.1 (which I now have) or not, but I did 2 things:

1) I removed all odd characters out of my playlist names, including a - and a » I was using
2) I changed the format of my MusicBee playlists to M3U instead of MBP. I did this in Preferences/Library/Playlists

Then I deleted all playlists on my Android and resynced and got no errors at all. It's a miracle!

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1) I removed all odd characters out of my playlist names, including a - and a » I was using


You probably only needed to do this part, for anyone following this solution.
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You probably only needed to do this part, for anyone following this solution.

Yeah, the library playlist format would have no effect on this.
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2) I changed the format of my MusicBee playlists to M3U instead of MBP. I did this in Preferences/Library/Playlists
Good to hear you got this sorted out, but unless I'm misunderstanding something, I find this extremely odd since the setting that you changed has nothing to do with the sync settings to a device. I use the playlists formatted/exported here for importing into my SubSonic Server and my Logitech Media Server. In this case my playlists are exported as PLS. My Android player (PowerAmp) needs playlists in M3U8.

To change the playlist format for syncing playlists to a device are found in Preferences > Device > (device name) > Settings > Playlist Storage > Save as Format:

I'm pretty sure MB doesn't pick up the exported playlists when it's syncing to a portable device like an Android phone.
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