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Title: Works with Motorola DROID
Post by: JasonJoel on November 06, 2009, 08:15:32 pm

Not that I was worried, but I thought I would confirm that MC14 works fine with the Motorola DROID phone.

The micro SD card shows up as a drive letter, and MC14 detects it as a 'handheld device'. Syncs just fine.

One thing I did find confusing was figuring out the syntax for the 'supported types' setting in the handheld device options. The help file doesn't really say what it is expecting here; comma separated list, space separated, etc. I also found that those file type filters APPEAR to be case sensitive as even though I had "MP3" in the list, it re-converted a bunch of files with extension "mp3". I went back and added "mp3" to the list, too, and next time it didn't convert them. Case sensitive?

Jason

Title: Re: Works with Motorola DROID
Post by: Matt on November 06, 2009, 09:16:46 pm

Thanks for the report.

We'll take a look at the case sensitive part, because there's no good reason for it to care about case.

Title: Re: Works with Motorola DROID
Post by: JasonJoel on November 07, 2009, 07:53:51 am

Any comment on what the format should be? :) I think I have it working (comma separated) but I'm curious as to the official answer as it isn't in the documentation.

Like:
MP3, OGG, WMA

Or:
MP3; OGG; WMA

Or:
*.MP3, *.OGG, *.WMA

etc.

Jason Bottjen

Title: Re: Works with Motorola DROID
Post by: JimH on November 07, 2009, 08:59:30 am

Semicolons, I believe.

Take a look at this file:
C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 14\Data\Default Resources\PDT.xml

You could modify it and put it here:
C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 14\Data\Custom Resources\PDT.xml

Then MC won't overwrite it on installation.

If you get something you like, please share it here.

Title: Re: Works with Motorola DROID
Post by: zxsix on November 09, 2009, 10:22:57 pm

If you find an app that lets you rate tracks on the droid let me know.
So far I've come up with nothing.

Title: Re: Works with Motorola DROID
Post by: bhageman on November 12, 2009, 07:33:36 pm

Another droid user that is happy to have sync working but would love to capture playback data so skip and play counts would be updated upon sync.

Title: Re: Works with Motorola DROID
Post by: SeaDrive on December 17, 2009, 04:32:53 pm

I was able to sync my Droid rather easily with MC but I noticed that the MP3 files went to the SD card in a MUSIC folder but the playlists don't show up on the Droid's playlist. Is there a trick?

Title: Re: Works with Motorola DROID
Post by: Bustor Williams on December 19, 2009, 04:58:00 am

Yes, my friends tell me regarding this thing in Droid

Title: Re: Works with Motorola DROID
Post by: zxsix on December 19, 2009, 06:48:02 am

Quote from: SeaDrive on December 17, 2009, 04:32:53 pm

I was able to sync my Droid rather easily with MC but I noticed that the MP3 files went to the SD card in a MUSIC folder but the playlists don't show up on the Droid's playlist. Is there a trick?

Getting the playlists to show up on the droid has always worked for me.
The trouble I've had is the old playlist not getting deleted.
If I sync 3 times, I end up with the same playlist name, with different content in each, showing up 3 times on the droid's music player. 
Now I just remember to delete the playlist on the droid prior to syncing.

When your droid is displayed in MC under drives and devices, is it showing up as a drive letter or does it say Motorola A855?