by joepet » Sun Nov 19, 2017 3:11 pm
FiiO X7 MediaMonkey Sync
The following is not a problem or a bug report, it is a solution that I hope helps someone in a similar situation.
I have a (50,000 song/sound bite) collection in MediaMonkey on my PC. I have extremely long (over 1000) and complex playlists (take my word for it) that I managed to create in MediaMonkey on my PC after considerable effort. I have a FiiO X7 with FW 2.0 (no, not the latest FW and there is a reason for this!) on which I wanted to sync all this. I tried many ways to do this including using the FiiO Pure Music program and using text files created from the MediaMonkey playlists. All these have disadvantages which I communicated to FiiO ad nauseam and I which I will not go into here other than to say that the worse disadvantage was that when changes are made to my playlists on my PC, it took a big effort to make those changes on my X7.
The best method I found is I installed the MediaMonkey Android App. on my X7 and synced using WiFi.....(for some reason the direct hardwired connection did not work as well.) The only annoying problem was every time I tried to sync, the X7 would give a message like "Sync waiting for background process to finish" and there would be a little circular arrow constantly rotating. This would go on for quite a while.....sometimes I would just restart everything and the same thing would happen....eventually it would sync, but this process was a pain. Sooooo along comes the latest update to MediaMonkey on my PC: 4.1.19.1859 the release notes of which stated that some sync issues were fixed. Low and behold sync now works flawlessly. Thank you MediaMonkey!!!!!!!!!!!
Joe Petrozelli
FiiO X7 MediaMonkey Sync
The following is not a problem or a bug report, it is a solution that I hope helps someone in a similar situation.
I have a (50,000 song/sound bite) collection in MediaMonkey on my PC. I have extremely long (over 1000) and complex playlists (take my word for it) that I managed to create in MediaMonkey on my PC after considerable effort. I have a FiiO X7 with FW 2.0 (no, not the latest FW and there is a reason for this!) on which I wanted to sync all this. I tried many ways to do this including using the FiiO Pure Music program and using text files created from the MediaMonkey playlists. All these have disadvantages which I communicated to FiiO ad nauseam and I which I will not go into here other than to say that the worse disadvantage was that when changes are made to my playlists on my PC, it took a big effort to make those changes on my X7.
The best method I found is I installed the MediaMonkey Android App. on my X7 and synced using WiFi.....(for some reason the direct hardwired connection did not work as well.) The only annoying problem was every time I tried to sync, the X7 would give a message like "Sync waiting for background process to finish" and there would be a little circular arrow constantly rotating. This would go on for quite a while.....sometimes I would just restart everything and the same thing would happen....eventually it would sync, but this process was a pain. Sooooo along comes the latest update to MediaMonkey on my PC: 4.1.19.1859 the release notes of which stated that some sync issues were fixed. Low and behold sync now works flawlessly. Thank you MediaMonkey!!!!!!!!!!!
Joe Petrozelli