Reverse sync prepending "playlists" to all list names

[Nandra]

I'm trying my darnedest to get reverse playlist sync working nicely, but I'm running into a problem I just can't figure out. If I do the following steps:

1. make a playlist in musicbee desktop (in this example, playlist name = Banjo-Kazooie)
2. do a wired sync to my phone
3. wifi sync again
...then my desktop list of playlists will now show not only the Banjo-Kazooie playlist, but also an empty one called playlistsBanjo-Kazooie! If I wifi sync again, I start getting playlistsplaylistsBanjo-Kazooie and so on.

Here's a screen of the config settings for my device:


And possibly helpful info on what I'm using:
- musicbee 3.3.7115
- google pixel pro 6 running Android version 12
- gone mad 3.2.8 (unlocked / full version)

Any help would be hugely appreciated!


EDIT: Found one more data point. When I look in the phone's gmmp\ folder (not in gmmp\playlists\), I see playlistsBanjo-Kazooie.m3u. But if I delete that and then request a sync preview from the wifi sync app, it reappears. Seems like it's getting spawned by the sync scanning itself? =\

I also find that if I change "playlists path" in the device config options to Music\Playlists\ (which I recall was the default), it stop creating the junk playlists. But, it doesn't sync back updates to the Banjo-Kazooie playlist either. (If I add a song to the playlist from within GoneMAD, then do a wifi sync, the playlist in musicbee desktop doesn't have the new song.) In fact, attempting to reverse sync removes the new song from goneMAD.

[phred]

I can think of two things to try...

1- you're running a version of MB that's almost three years old. Before you do anything else, update to (at least) the latest 3.4.x. Or ideally, the latest 3.5.

2- remove "gmmp" from your playlist storage path. Make it just "playlists".

You only need to do a wired preview once (per phone.) From then on you can use the WiFi Sync app.

Let us know how you make out.

[Nandra]

Thanks for weighing in, I really appreciate it! I can't believe my version was that out of date, whoops. 

Unfortunately neither seems to have fixed the issue... I'm now on 3.5.8150, but no luck. When I try changing the playlists folder to just "playlists\", like you suggested, it has the same result as putting it in "Music\playlists\": it doesn't propagate changes from my phone back to my computer, and instead it overwrites the modified playlist on the phone with the old one from the computer.