by Finsternis » Thu Sep 17, 2020 11:13 pm
I started trying to use MM for both videos and music on my phone. I made some playlists of both kinds and set them up to sync. But while the music sync'd OK, at the end I got a LONG list of video files MM refused to sync because it said they were some how not compatible with my phone. Gee, that's funny, they are all standard MP4 files and oddly enough when I simply copy them over manually they play fine on my phone. No compatibility issues whatsoever. I tried turning off everything I could find in terms of conversion in the syncing, no dice. I manually deleted all the conversion rules - no dice.
So, questions -
1) Why does MM even care if I can play the files on my phone? That's my job, not its job. Why can't it just copy the files, or give me a warning and ask if I'm sure?
2) I never told MM what kind of phone I have - the "phone lookup" function is a sad joke, there haven't been any new phones added to it in years and year. Why is it convinved that it "knows" what types of media my phone can play?
3) How do I get around this and tell MM to just get the eff out of the way and copy my videos without stocking its nose in? Who thought this was a good idea? Certainly I know a lot more about my phone and my files than MM does. So how do I fix this? Thanks.
I started trying to use MM for both videos and music on my phone. I made some playlists of both kinds and set them up to sync. But while the music sync'd OK, at the end I got a LONG list of video files MM refused to sync because it said they were some how not compatible with my phone. Gee, that's funny, they are all standard MP4 files and oddly enough when I simply copy them over manually they play fine on my phone. No compatibility issues whatsoever. I tried turning off everything I could find in terms of conversion in the syncing, no dice. I manually deleted all the conversion rules - no dice.
So, questions -
1) Why does MM even care if I can play the files on my phone? That's my job, not its job. Why can't it just copy the files, or give me a warning and ask if I'm sure?
2) I never told MM what kind of phone I have - the "phone lookup" function is a sad joke, there haven't been any new phones added to it in years and year. Why is it convinved that it "knows" what types of media my phone can play?
3) How do I get around this and tell MM to just get the eff out of the way and copy my videos without stocking its nose in? Who thought this was a good idea? Certainly I know a lot more about my phone and my files than MM does. So how do I fix this? Thanks.
