by ginaz » Wed Apr 21, 2021 4:11 pm
On S10
Uninstalled MMA MediaMonkey Pro.
Uninstalled MMA MediaMonkey
Deleted all Music and m3u files
Deleted all Playlists
Restarted phone
Created Music and Playlists folders
Installed Media Monkey for Android
Opened MediaMonkey and gave access to SD card (It would be nice to be able to limit this to specific folders, like Music and Playlists)
Restarted phone
Installed MediaMonkey Pro
Opened MediaMonkey Pro
On Windows 10
Started MediaMonkey MMW
Connected S10 to Computer via USB (recommendation is to do first time sync over USB due to data volume)
Verified AutoSyncDevice. Music location (Z: drive (NAS) Music, no checks marks to sync Artist & Album Art, No check marks to sync Composers, All Genres checked to sync (this is my first level under Music), No ratings synced. No additional checkmarks. No checkmarks for AutoSyncLibrary. Options checked for Any audio above 192 convert to 165 and volume level.
Music File Location: Music\ <Genre>\<Album Artist> <Title>
Classical set the same (don't know why this exists)
All others default.
Other media files all unchecked
Remove artwork if > 300K
Use only first Genre
Sync Playlists
Playlist format only m3u
Force relative paths (not sure if needed)
Use Unicode
Destination \Playlists\
Check the playlists I have created to sync (3 Stars, 3.5 Stat … 5 Stars, Abba Plus CD, All Music, Top 50)
Ran Sync Device Auto-Syncronize
Got c:\Users….file already exists, replace it? Yes to all
Got transfer appears frozen: OK [transfer was stopped while I tried to snip the above message but coulnd't, continued OK]
Got problem with autoconverted file (c:…), selected Ignore [Not sure why it is copying files to C. Action line on MMW says copying to S10 - Card. After about a dozen of these I clicked Retry and did not get a repeat message for the same song.
Stopped with 4463 of 4466 songs. Indicates it is converting a track to mp3. MMA showed spinning circle for a period of time, then it went away. MMW still sitting on 4463 converting track to mp3.
After waiting more than an hour, I terminated the sync. There were no playlists on MMA. Using Windows search for Music mp3 files, 4,414 files of the 4,466 were found. MMA did not see any playlists. The playlists folder was empty. However, searching the MMA music folder there were 22 m3u files, each 0 bytes, and for the list of songs that I had used Ignore above.
I did another Sync Device Auto-Synchronize. Sixty-seven files were copied and playlists. The auto-synchronize completed normally with no warnings. After the spinning symbol stopped on MMA, all the playlist selected to by synced were present. All playlist had the correct number of tracks except two were missing one file and the All Music had 4,451 tracks instead of 4,466.
I believe this is a good outcome but a lot of steps and time to get to this point.
On S10
Uninstalled MMA MediaMonkey Pro.
Uninstalled MMA MediaMonkey
Deleted all Music and m3u files
Deleted all Playlists
Restarted phone
Created Music and Playlists folders
Installed Media Monkey for Android
Opened MediaMonkey and gave access to SD card (It would be nice to be able to limit this to specific folders, like Music and Playlists)
Restarted phone
Installed MediaMonkey Pro
Opened MediaMonkey Pro
On Windows 10
Started MediaMonkey MMW
Connected S10 to Computer via USB (recommendation is to do first time sync over USB due to data volume)
Verified AutoSyncDevice. Music location (Z: drive (NAS) Music, no checks marks to sync Artist & Album Art, No check marks to sync Composers, All Genres checked to sync (this is my first level under Music), No ratings synced. No additional checkmarks. No checkmarks for AutoSyncLibrary. Options checked for Any audio above 192 convert to 165 and volume level.
Music File Location: Music\ <Genre>\<Album Artist> <Title>
Classical set the same (don't know why this exists)
All others default.
Other media files all unchecked
Remove artwork if > 300K
Use only first Genre
Sync Playlists
Playlist format only m3u
Force relative paths (not sure if needed)
Use Unicode
Destination \Playlists\
Check the playlists I have created to sync (3 Stars, 3.5 Stat … 5 Stars, Abba Plus CD, All Music, Top 50)
Ran Sync Device Auto-Syncronize
Got c:\Users….file already exists, replace it? Yes to all [I think it was auto-converted]
Got transfer appears frozen: OK [transfer was stopped while I tried to snip the above message but coulnd't, continued OK]
Got problem with autoconverted file (c:…), selected Ignore [Not sure why it is copying files to C. Action line on MMW says copying to S10 - Card. After about a dozen of these I clicked Retry and did not get a repeat message for the same song.
Stopped with 4463 of 4466 songs. Indicates it is converting a track to mp3. MMA showed spinning circle for a period of time, then it went away. MMW still sitting on 4463 converting track to mp3.
After waiting more than an hour, I terminated the sync. There were no playlists on MMA. Using Windows search for Music mp3 files, 4,414 files of the 4,466 were found. MMA did not see any playlists. The playlists folder was empty. However, searching the MMA music folder there were 22 m3u files, each 0 bytes, and for the list of songs that I had used Ignore above.
I did another Sync Device Auto-Synchronize. Sixty-seven files were copied and playlists. The auto-synchronize completed normally with no warnings. After the spinning symbol stopped on MMA, all the playlist selected to by synced were present. All playlist had the correct number of tracks except two were missing one file and the All Music had 4,451 tracks instead of 4,466.
I believe this is a good outcome but a lot of steps and time to get to this point.