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[maddog510]

I tried syncing some tracks to my LG phone but for some reason they keep syncing to the root of the SD card instead of the music folder on the SD card where the handheld sync shows that's the location it's supposed to sync to. Any ideas why that's happening & how to fix it?

[RoderickGI]

What do you have set for the Audio Path in the Handheld Sync Options?

If you are using tags in the above setting, do all the files actually have those tags?

What model LG and what version of Android?

[maddog510]

What do you have set for the Audio Path in the Handheld Sync Options?

If you are using tags in the above setting, do all the files actually have those tags?

What model LG and what version of Android?

It's the automated setup where it already has the file path set for you. It says music\[album artist] auto\album\ I have the LG V20.

[RoderickGI]

The LG V20 was released 2016, October, and originally was Android 7, with an upgrade to Android 8 only available in Korea. So has that changed? Are you on Android 7 or 8?

Also, I should have asked, full version of MC (i.e.MC24.0.47?) and are you using the 64 or 32 bit version?

MC24 64 bit was updated to support Handheld sync a little while ago, but it did require some tweaks to work with my Sony Android 8 phone. Maybe the LG works a little differently and also needs some special handling. Testing was only done on HTC, Samsung and Sony devices I think. Maybe also a Nexus. There were instances of media files being saved to the root directory instead of a location based on the rule specified.

Maybe try this; under Handheld Options for an Android device you can now specify various Playlist formats to be saved to the device. I use m3u with relative paths, for example. Set up your Handheld Sync to the LG to use one of those formats, then copy the resulting playlist file to your PC so that you can open it and have a look at the paths saved for the files on your LG. If the paths are correct, then I would expect the Audio Path to work. But if the paths aren't correct, something is probably going wrong at the MC end. That test doesn't give an answer, but it might provide a hint to a JRiver developer, one of whom has probably noticed this thread by now.

Handheld Sync really does need some more love, particularly on Android.

[maddog510]

The LG V20 was released 2016, October, and originally was Android 7, with an upgrade to Android 8 only available in Korea. So has that changed? Are you on Android 7 or 8?

Also, I should have asked, full version of MC (i.e.MC24.0.47?) and are you using the 64 or 32 bit version?

MC24 64 bit was updated to support Handheld sync a little while ago, but it did require some tweaks to work with my Sony Android 8 phone. Maybe the LG works a little differently and also needs some special handling. Testing was only done on HTC, Samsung and Sony devices I think. Maybe also a Nexus. There were instances of media files being saved to the root directory instead of a location based on the rule specified.

Maybe try this; under Handheld Options for an Android device you can now specify various Playlist formats to be saved to the device. I use m3u with relative paths, for example. Set up your Handheld Sync to the LG to use one of those formats, then copy the resulting playlist file to your PC so that you can open it and have a look at the paths saved for the files on your LG. If the paths are correct, then I would expect the Audio Path to work. But if the paths aren't correct, something is probably going wrong at the MC end. That test doesn't give an answer, but it might provide a hint to a JRiver developer, one of whom has probably noticed this thread by now.

Handheld Sync really does need some more love, particularly on Android.

My device was updated to Oreo @ the end of last month. I wasn't using a playlist to sync music. I was just picking tracks to sync over & that's what happened. Completely ignoring where the desiganted location was.

[RoderickGI]

Okay, I think this requires input from a developer to resolve. Hopefully one comes along to offer assistance.

When this was happening to others, it required some code tweaking to fix.

You may want to post your phones details over here: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,60070.0.html
Although I see there is one V20 already posted.