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Synching music lists? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by DrQuint@lemm.ee to c/askandroid@lemdro.id

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So, I got a request for suggestions from the community here.

I've been an android user basically all my life, and recently I've had a need for music. There's a long story here, but basically, Spotify is a no-go. I want to keep my own list of music files, sort them on PC, send them to my phone, and play it there. I do have means to get files I'm interested on, and playback devices and connections are no issue. So far so good.

However, the experience I've had has been lacking, because I'm missing an important step: Synching. I've been copying everything manually. Back when iPods weren't a joke, way way back, I used one and the iTunes <-> iPod experience was great. I could setup playlists on PC or restrict certain files, then have them show up on the iPod. Then playing and rating music a number of times on iPod and those stats would transfer and generate new playlists such as most and least played. I'm looking for something like that again. I don't need a complete seamless experience, and the synching operation doesn't need to be done by an actual music playback application either.

Can anyone help me with this? What mobile+desktop applications combos do you all use for music and do they synch up?

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[–] Extrasvhx9he 3 points 1 year ago

Not too familiar with syncthing but I feel this should be up its alley. Like a shared music library hopefully someone more knowledgeable can back me up

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just like for all files, rsync.

[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmmm, interesting. Could be a plan C solution. The desktop with the music is windows so I hope wsl plays nice with. I read that most players support .m3u playlists so I wonder if can ensure all of them match between players if I take that approach.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, sorry! I seriously forgot about Windows.

[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, it's fine. It's still a useful suggestion.

[–] indigojasper@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use iBroadcast

[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

This appears to be a cloud based solution, which is fine and I do synch lockfiles in that sort of manner, but I wonder if it's overkill for the music side of things. I'm fine with synchs occurring only when my devices are either in the same network or connected by cable.