by JulieEdwards » Sat Sep 01, 2018 9:37 pm
Hello all,
I've been using MMW and syncing to an iPod classic for a long time. Recently I've bought a 128GB card and decided just to use my phone since the battery isn't holding a charge in my iPod classic anymore, and I'd really like to completely get rid of iTunes. I bought the MMA app and thought this would be really slick just to use my phone. I can't believe how much trouble this has been to sync and I'm super frustrated with the whole process. I've reformatted the card and uninstalled and reinstalled the ap about 6 times. I have 1300files so re-syncing takes forever.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7, MMA is whatever version of the app I could have downloaded today.
MMW is version 4.1.21.1875.
I've had several issues along the way, some were that the library wasn't seeing files that were there in the folder, another time MMA deleted MMW files, and I have duplicate and in some cases triplicate files that are greyed out. Oh and one time the electricity blinked during a sync and everything went to heck. MMW would see my device plugged in via USB, and the next time I'd plug it in (in an effort to re-sync to get rid of greyed out files) it would name the device something else and try to duplicate all the files again. One time it even called it by my camera name.
I'm guessing with the greyed out duplicates that MMA is evidently seeing a folder or something that should have been gone when I reformatted the card before the last sync. When I try to sync, instead of scanning to see what files have changed, it seems to want to recopy all my files and then tells me I don't have enough room on the card. Do I not understand syncing? All I want it to do is scan and sync whatever has changed on MMW to MMA, as it used to work with my iPod. (If I added a new album or wanted to update my pod casts, it was so easy, why is this so difficult now?)
What am I doing wrong? What setting do I have checked somewhere that enabling MMA to see some dead folder and show these greyed out copies, and how do I stop it from scanning that folder, or from thinking that's the folder it should be using. (How is any of that even there after I reformatted the card and reinstalled the app? )I even realized that I have a lot of stuff in MMW I should get rid of and retag in MMW, so I spent hours doing that last night and today. Then I reformatted the card and synced directly to the card instead of the USB, reinstalled the app, popped the card in and MMA is still seeing those deleted files somewhere and scanning them.
If all I want to do is sync one way, from MMW to MMA, what do I need to have checked in settings to prevent MMA from deleting MMW files?
How long should it take to populate the library on MMA? It literally seems to spin for hours. Is this normal? Sometimes I hit "Check for new/changed media" and nothing happens. Other times I open the app and the little circle just spins for hours until I reboot the phone. I can't try to sync to get rid of those greyed out folders because "sync is waiting for background operations to complete."
I'm really sorry if this doesn't make sense, or if the answer is obvious and I seem like a tech noob. I'm really not too stupid but I can't sort this out. I've followed the Sync wiki steps, though I elected not to try to sync the first time on Wifi since it was clearly going to take days. So I tried USB and directly to the card. I've read threads that go nowhere. I don't know what I'm doing wrong or why this is so difficult.
Thanks in advance,
Julie
Hello all,
I've been using MMW and syncing to an iPod classic for a long time. Recently I've bought a 128GB card and decided just to use my phone since the battery isn't holding a charge in my iPod classic anymore, and I'd really like to completely get rid of iTunes. I bought the MMA app and thought this would be really slick just to use my phone. I can't believe how much trouble this has been to sync and I'm super frustrated with the whole process. I've reformatted the card and uninstalled and reinstalled the ap about 6 times. I have 1300files so re-syncing takes forever.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S7, MMA is whatever version of the app I could have downloaded today.
MMW is version 4.1.21.1875.
I've had several issues along the way, some were that the library wasn't seeing files that were there in the folder, another time MMA deleted MMW files, and I have duplicate and in some cases triplicate files that are greyed out. Oh and one time the electricity blinked during a sync and everything went to heck. MMW would see my device plugged in via USB, and the next time I'd plug it in (in an effort to re-sync to get rid of greyed out files) it would name the device something else and try to duplicate all the files again. One time it even called it by my camera name.
I'm guessing with the greyed out duplicates that MMA is evidently seeing a folder or something that should have been gone when I reformatted the card before the last sync. When I try to sync, instead of scanning to see what files have changed, it seems to want to recopy all my files and then tells me I don't have enough room on the card. Do I not understand syncing? All I want it to do is scan and sync whatever has changed on MMW to MMA, as it used to work with my iPod. (If I added a new album or wanted to update my pod casts, it was so easy, why is this so difficult now?)
What am I doing wrong? What setting do I have checked somewhere that enabling MMA to see some dead folder and show these greyed out copies, and how do I stop it from scanning that folder, or from thinking that's the folder it should be using. (How is any of that even there after I reformatted the card and reinstalled the app? )I even realized that I have a lot of stuff in MMW I should get rid of and retag in MMW, so I spent hours doing that last night and today. Then I reformatted the card and synced directly to the card instead of the USB, reinstalled the app, popped the card in and MMA is still seeing those deleted files somewhere and scanning them.
If all I want to do is sync one way, from MMW to MMA, what do I need to have checked in settings to prevent MMA from deleting MMW files?
How long should it take to populate the library on MMA? It literally seems to spin for hours. Is this normal? Sometimes I hit "Check for new/changed media" and nothing happens. Other times I open the app and the little circle just spins for hours until I reboot the phone. I can't try to sync to get rid of those greyed out folders because "sync is waiting for background operations to complete."
I'm really sorry if this doesn't make sense, or if the answer is obvious and I seem like a tech noob. I'm really not too stupid but I can't sort this out. I've followed the Sync wiki steps, though I elected not to try to sync the first time on Wifi since it was clearly going to take days. So I tried USB and directly to the card. I've read threads that go nowhere. I don't know what I'm doing wrong or why this is so difficult.
Thanks in advance,
Julie