Software for music playlists sync

[GT_Alex74]

Just wondering what you guys use to synchronize your music playlists to your MP3 readers, phones, etc.

I'm having hard times to find something that satisfies me : Windows Media Player won't sync my FLAC files to my Android (despite having installed a codec for WMP to read FLAC), so I tried converting my playlists to m3u files and download MediaMonkey, but it makes weird things with some file's paths (eg. 16 Pièces\Portrait.mp3 becomes 16 Pièces\Portrait.mp3 and unless I go in the file properties to modify it manually it won't read or sync it. Doesn't like kanji also.). And it seems VLC doesn't have an option for that.

 

[Davidies]

I used Spotify because I just needed music on my phone and PC. Now my subscription has run out, so I should probably renew it. Other than that, I just use an SD card to get songs from one device to another.

 

[Grayfox]

I normally drag and drop.
When I get music from google play.
It is in the following structure.

Artist/Album/Disk/track 1

I normally will move all of the songs out of the disk folder and put them in the album folder and rename tracks accordingly.

If your having issues with file names use a program like Bulk Rename Utility.

This way you can remove the non english letters and just use the english version è becomes e and à becomes A.

Not many MP3 devices support non latin alphabets.

So Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish are out.

 

[GT_Alex74]

That's one interesting option -although my phone and VLC copes perfectly with all that, it's really just the synchronizing programs that causes me problems. I'll try that, with +/- 100Go of badly sorted music on my hard drive, synchronizing playlists becomes mandatory

 

[Grayfox]

If all your songs are legally bought and downloaded.
Redownload them so they are correctly named and sorted.

Can cut down hours of work.

As for your m3u playlist.

Ever thought of just making your own?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U

 

[GT_Alex74]

Already converted by hand my wpl lists into m3u (thanks Notepad++). Even tried to do a .bat to copy all the files in my m3u's, but the dos prompt doesn't seem to like esoteric characters. Tried to save under different encodings, doesn't improve things.

What annoys me the most is that WMP doesn't have issues with them, but won't sync FLAC files (despite having the codec to read them, it's just as he tries to fool proof me : "hey, your Android can't read that dude"). Also I found no option for him to just throw all the files in a single directory without creating a whole tree structure based on artists, genres, albums... When there's almost the same number of directories than files, it is pretty annoying and a potential source for errors (Winamp fails to sync a huge amount of files due to that).

 

[Apok]

I use foobar2000 since it's just about the only thing that can sync songs to my iPod classic (apart from iTunes of course, but eww, iTunes).
A little tricky to get used to at first, but it's very flexible and there are a lot of plugins for it to do all sorts of stuff (the iPod sync thing is a plugin for example).

 

[Sprite]

I use VLC on my iPhone for FLAC audio. Not sure if there is an Android version, I then drag and drop the files.

 

[stonesfan129]

Just wondering what you guys use to synchronize your music playlists to your MP3 readers, phones, etc.

I'm having hard times to find something that satisfies me : Windows Media Player won't sync my FLAC files to my Android (despite having installed a codec for WMP to read FLAC), so I tried converting my playlists to m3u files and download MediaMonkey, but it makes weird things with some file's paths (eg. 16 Pièces\Portrait.mp3 becomes 16 Pièces\Portrait.mp3 and unless I go in the file properties to modify it manually it won't read or sync it. Doesn't like kanji also.). And it seems VLC doesn't have an option for that.

I know for a fact that under Windows 10, FLAC is supported natively in WMP. I have zero issues syncing FLAC, AAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis or WAV files to my microsd cards. So it depends if you want to upgrade to W10.

Under Linux, I find Banshee does a pretty good job. I let it just scan my library, plug my microsd card in via the USB reader, and then drag/drop my playlists or individual songs into the folder.

I used to use SanDisk Media Manager on Windows 7 until Microsoft broke it with a series of security updates. Then SanDisk decided to discontinue it and refused to provide me with support when it stopped working.