Author Topic: How to setup MusicBee for sync ONLY  (Read 627 times)

Justice

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I've always been an iPod Touch/iPhone kind of guy for listening to my music. Since I've switched to a new computer and my general accrued distaste for the entire Apple ecosystem in addition to the very nice Galaxy S10+ phone I've received, I'm making the switch to the 21st century and will be playing all my music now on that phone.

Now, I have very little experience when it comes to Android music syncing. I've read around a bunch and found my best options were MusicBee, Media Monkey, foobar2000, Winamp, and a bunch of other programs like Syncthing, but MusicBee always seemed to be consistently rated in the top.

Now, I use foobar2000 to listen to my files on the PC and I use MusicBrainz Picard for all of my auto-tagging and Mp3tag for manual tagging. I would be looking to MusicBee purely and solely as a syncing program. I know it has a bunch of other stuff built-in to automatically tag, search for cover art and lyrics, and edit the metadata, but I've spent countless hours tagging my files exactly how I want them to be and am scared to death that MusicBee has the potential to change all that.

How can I set MusicBee up so it disables virtually everything except for syncing (and manual syncing at that)?

vincent kars

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This very simple, by default MusicBee doesn't do anything, it won't alter tags, rename/move files, etc, etc until explicitly told to do so.
The only thing you must set is in Edit > Preferences > Library  to allow MusicBee to monitor your folders.