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Devices => Androids and other portables => Topic started by: holsen on May 30, 2019, 07:23:58 pm
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I've an Android P20 Pro and use it with Rocket Player (which is awesome btw) and set up a sync. If I sync my ALAC library, without conversion everything works fine but the Playlist generates as a PLA file which the Rocket Player cannot read. So the easy work around for me was to simply export the playlist an m3u to my PC and then drag that into the playlist folder on the Android and Voila everything fine .... playlist work!
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On the phone I use the conversion feature to send files over as HQ MP3s to save space and here the problem. The sync works perfect, Albums, Artists, Songs all show up fine but again the playlist file generates as an PLA. And the playlist in MC is still referencing the original m4a (ALAC) files. So here's the easy easy workaround I just tested to work.
Run the sync with whatever conversion you want. Export the playlist as .m3u to some directory. Open it with notepad or wordpad or whatever the Mac equivalent would be then use the "Find and Replace" tool Find .mp4 > Replace with .mp3 or whatever the file extention happens to be and it will work fine.
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Recent versions of MC have a setting for the Playlist file format to be used in Handheld Sync. In fact, the functionality has been there for a while.
No need for any workaround. MC does everything required.
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Thats good to know. I'm on v21 and haven't upgraded because I dont use MC as a player - I use it simply to sync my library between my DAP and Phone. I still use itunes solely for tagging because it does everything automatically without having to rename and replace anything. It tags, renames, and moves files & directories pretty much instantly. Any idea of what version of MC incorporated playlist selction during Handheld Sync? Its clearly available in 21 for exporting playlists, but the option doesn't show when syncing handheld.
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I don't recall what version it was added to. You could search the Release Notes (https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Release_Notes) to find it.
But if you upgraded, you would be upgrading to the latest, MC25, and that would have it in there. JRiver doesn't sell licences for older versions once a new version is out and stable, as I understand it.
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Hi,
I've just updated to mc25, and tried creating playlists for use on android with poweramp.I'm creating the playlists by inserting the SD card into the laptop running MC25 which I'm then transferring to the 'phone. so for so good.
I can successfully create the music files on poweramp, but only as individual tracks, poweramp does not show any playlist. rescanning/resolving playlists on poweramp does not help. I've tried changing the format in MC, but no change. Very annoying.
I'd appreciate it if some knowledgeable person out there could explain in simple terms how to make this work please
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You probably need to use Relative Paths in the Playlist that MC builds. It is a setting in Handheld options, or more correctly, you can choose Relative Paths when you select the Playlist format to create and transfer.
Otherwise, that sounds like a Poweramp for Android question. As I'm not a Poweramp user, I have no idea. You may want to confirm what Playlist formats Poweramp supports.
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Thanks Roderick, After a lot of messing about, I've managed to fix the issue, it required a change within the poweramp settings, I cannot for the life of me remember what i did now, however it seems to be working.