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Syncing is broken on all phones, practically. MTP is a disaster. These days I just use Syncthing on Android. What works best for me on my desktop is Rhythmbox

by srslack 10y ago

Syncing is broken on all phones, practically. MTP is a disaster. These days I just use Syncthing on Android. What works best for me on my desktop is Rhythmbox and a bindfs mounted to the Syncthing directory, which contains a file named ".is_audio_player". https://almost-a-technocrat.blogspot.com/2010/11/isaudioplayer.htm https://almost-a-technocrat.blogspot.com/2010/11/isaudioplay... After that, multiple playlists, podcasts, transcoded or not: it can handle it all wirelessly.

dmix 10y ago
I used to obsessively manage my music like this on external HDs, syncing apps, and `beets` [1] to clean up the tags/album covers. But I've recently given this up in favour of Google Music and I'm in love. I haven't stopped raving about the service since I started using it two months ago. Just having your entire collection (and it has 99% of the music I'm looking for, something like 35 million full albums... just a simple search and button click away from adding to my library) and for stuff it doesn't have you can upload 50k songs, even stuff your pirate off private torrent trackers or w/e. Getting new phones each year, new tablets, new laptops, etc I always ended up with a half-baked collection of music. I never set up a NAS to solve this unfortunately but now I don't feel the need to. It's helped me rediscover so much music I've forgotten over the years and lost from my collection during various moves. Now I'm in the process of building playlists, rating songs, and rebuilding the playcounts. Not having to worry about ever losing them again is very reassuring! I got a 90-day trial with my Nexus phone and it's only $9/month after that... but you can also use it for free with ads which includes the 50k songs. [1] https://github.com/beetbox/beets https://github.com/beetbox/beets

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Syncing is broken on all phones, practically. MTP is a disaster. These days I just use Syncthing on Android. What works best for me on my desktop is Rhythmbox

by srslack 10y ago

dmix 10y ago
I used to obsessively manage my music like this on external HDs, syncing apps, and `beets` [1] to clean up the tags/album covers. But I've recently given this up in favour of Google Music and I'm in love. I haven't stopped raving about the service since I started using it two months ago. Just having your entire collection (and it has 99% of the music I'm looking for, something like 35 million full albums... just a simple search and button click away from adding to my library) and for stuff it doesn't have you can upload 50k songs, even stuff your pirate off private torrent trackers or w/e. Getting new phones each year, new tablets, new laptops, etc I always ended up with a half-baked collection of music. I never set up a NAS to solve this unfortunately but now I don't feel the need to. It's helped me rediscover so much music I've forgotten over the years and lost from my collection during various moves. Now I'm in the process of building playlists, rating songs, and rebuilding the playcounts. Not having to worry about ever losing them again is very reassuring! I got a 90-day trial with my Nexus phone and it's only $9/month after that... but you can also use it for free with ads which includes the 50k songs. [1] https://github.com/beetbox/beets https://github.com/beetbox/beets