[Q] iSyncr not syncing playlists - General Questions and Answers

Hi everyone!
For all iTunes users, i have my first android phone after depending for 3 years on my iPod, so I was using iSyncr to sync all my music and playlists to my phone (LG Optimus L9). It was working perfectly (I use PowerAmp to listen to my music) until the syncing of the playlists started to fail. I think it was after an iTunes update (but I'm not sure), I run iSyncr, select SD card as always and it starts working blah blah, the music syncs but when tries to sync the playlists it says something like this:
"Syncing Rock... Device couldn't update the playlist"
I don't know why it started to do this, I tried deleting the playlist from the SD and syncing a new playlist but it doesn't work either. It's so annoying because I depend a lot on my playlists, I have 16 gb of music and it's a mess if I don't have it ordered the way i like it xD
Anybody knows any solution to this?

jarkendar said:
Hi everyone!
For all iTunes users, i have my first android phone after depending for 3 years on my iPod, so I was using iSyncr to sync all my music and playlists to my phone (LG Optimus L9). It was working perfectly (I use PowerAmp to listen to my music) until the syncing of the playlists started to fail. I think it was after an iTunes update (but I'm not sure), I run iSyncr, select SD card as always and it starts working blah blah, the music syncs but when tries to sync the playlists it says something like this:
"Syncing Rock... Device couldn't update the playlist"
I don't know why it started to do this, I tried deleting the playlist from the SD and syncing a new playlist but it doesn't work either. It's so annoying because I depend a lot on my playlists, I have 16 gb of music and it's a mess if I don't have it ordered the way i like it xD
Anybody knows any solution to this?
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You may try refreshing the Android media storage on your device using this tutorial - http://www.jrtstudio.com/iSyncr/Tutorials/HowToRefreshAndroidMediaCache
If this doesn't work, try syncing to the internal storage and seeing if this is working properly. For more advanced help, please contact me at [email protected].

EasySeaBreezy said:
You may try refreshing the Android media storage on your device using this tutorial -
If this doesn't work, try syncing to the internal storage and seeing if this is working properly. For more advanced help, please contact me at [email protected].
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I tried refreshing the media storage and not only it didn't work, but iSyncr deleted all the playlists and then it couldn't transfer the new playlists, now I don't have any of them in my phone
I think I'll do a hard reset soon and see if that works, thanks anyway

jarkendar said:
I tried refreshing the media storage and not only it didn't work, but iSyncr deleted all the playlists and then it couldn't transfer the new playlists, now I don't have any of them in my phone
I think I'll do a hard reset soon and see if that works, thanks anyway
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I had the same issue at one point and found out that the problem was i had flashed a mod that also disabled the media scanner. I just used a media scanner trigger app from the market and problem fixed. What rom/mods are you running?

rdieker said:
I had the same issue at one point and found out that the problem was i had flashed a mod that also disabled the media scanner. I just used a media scanner trigger app from the market and problem fixed. What rom/mods are you running?
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I don't have any roms or mods. The media scanner is working, or at least the icon appears, stays for a while and then dissapears.

Solved
Hello again, I finally did a hard reset and spent all afternoon installing the apps and cofiguring the phone and everything is working perfectly. I'm doing a backup now so I have somewhere to go back to if anything weird happens again xD

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Buggy HTC Music Player in Sense!!!

Hi guys,
I got a Problem with the Musicplayer in htc sense, it is soo buggy when i want to scroll through all my titles, i think its because of the hundrets of Album thumnails it got to load. is there a way to deaktivate these??
Thanks for answers or reflections!
I have this problem aswell.
you didn't explain what this bug does..
if its the same im having;
At first, when in music tab, the volume button controls volume (as expected) but then after *something* happens, then suddenly it switches to being a previous/next song button, and requires a soft-reset to be fixed
+1 Its really annoying..
i read somewhere this no longer happens on 1.61, can any1 running that rom confirm it?
Hey guys, been lurking for a while, this is my first post.
I had major issues with my music player. I emailed HTC and they sent this response -
"Please factory reset the device again, and install the patches before restoring any data.
Please remove all media from the SD card and format it.
Please ensure you synchronise media to your SD card directly from Windows Media Player11 on your PC to ensure that files are converted correctly and test the device again."
Did this and hey presto, works fine now
May be worth a try, good luck!
Wow ! You may change your device also...
Have you tried to simply modify the mp3 tag (genre, tracknumber) according to my findings here?
See here
In my opinion, a lot, if not all, of Music Player issues are related to the way the music player handles the ID3 tag of your mp3.

Help: How to update media library

Hi bros,
I'm very confuse about this, not sure that anybody meet the same. The problem is I cannot update my music library after copying music to the internal storage. I copied using USB sync. I tried many apps like SDScan. I even tried FX (File Explorer) app, have the function to scan for media but it stop suddenly in the middle of the process.
Please, anyone know how to fix this?
Thank you very much
squall83 said:
Hi bros,
I'm very confuse about this, not sure that anybody meet the same. The problem is I cannot update my music library after copying music to the internal storage. I copied using USB sync. I tried many apps like SDScan. I even tried FX (File Explorer) app, have the function to scan for media but it stop suddenly in the middle of the process.
Please, anyone know how to fix this?
Thank you very much
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I guess reflashing shud help...
find the settings where you filter the musics that will show up in the player. I think every player has that if not almost.
had same problem with gb miui... only reboot helped...

[Q] Stock mp3 Player reverses song order in Playlists - Ideas?

Hey guys,
I've got an odd problem with samsung stock music player on my note 10.1.
Every playlist I add to the device is (dis)played upside down. At first i suspected isyncr, which i use to sync my Itunes with the note, to be the problem - but it turned out it is not.
I already did the following:
checked the m3u playlist isyncr generates with a text editor - everything fine
cleared data of stock music player
cleared data of "media storage"
created a playlist with a 3rd party player (amazon) => reverse order in samsung player, correct order in poweramp, player pro
created a playlist with samsung player => reverse order in 3rd party players (amazon, poweramp, player pro)
searched the internet and xda
asked samsung support for help - twice
Internet knows a similar problem with samsung fascinate without any solution, here on xda i found an old thread which i suspect describes the same problem on a different device (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1404735), but also without a solution or idea.
I can hardly believe there is such a bug in the stock music app and hardly anyone steps into it. I also find it hard to believe that samsung had this bug in Fascinate's music player, fixed it in the Galaxy S2's (which i also own and doesn't have this problem), just to re-integrate it in the Note 10.1.
Samsung support is not able to give any qualified answers and rather tries to force me to use kies (which I even tried, but despite its poor performance cannot help me with this problem). I will, however, try to ask them a 3rd time.
The Problem existed in ICS ROM as well as in Jelly Bean, which arrived about 2 weeks ago (XXBLJ9).
Any Ideas what I could try next?
If you read this and don't know an answer either, you can still help me by verifying the problem on your note 10.1 - just create a playlist with for example amazon mp3 (playlist, not album) and open it with samsung stock music player. Would be great, thanks in advance!
Greetings,
Oliver
Okay...seems like nobody has an idea how to solve this...no problem.
You can, however, also help me by just trying it out, takes about 1 minute of your time...is nobody using the stock music player and any other player?
As Internet isn't full of complaints, i suspect that it could be a configuration specific problem with my note. I am willing to wipe it in that case, but as it is not rooted i've got to restore its current state manually after that - which might take some hours So I just want to make sure that there's a chance that wiping helps me with my problem.
Anyone? Can (or can't) you confirm my problem?
Thanks and Greetings,
Oliver
Same issue on Samsung Droid Charge
OliverB82 said:
Okay...seems like nobody has an idea how to solve this...no problem.
You can, however, also help me by just trying it out, takes about 1 minute of your time...is nobody using the stock music player and any other player?
As Internet isn't full of complaints, i suspect that it could be a configuration specific problem with my note. I am willing to wipe it in that case, but as it is not rooted i've got to restore its current state manually after that - which might take some hours So I just want to make sure that there's a chance that wiping helps me with my problem.
Anyone? Can (or can't) you confirm my problem?
Thanks and Greetings,
Oliver
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Hi,
I have had my Samsung Charge since it came out. That problem has always persisted on my device. I find it extremely frustrating as the point of a smart phone is that it is multiple devices. I would like this to be my main music player as well since it has an external 32gb SD card and so can hold quite a bit of music.
I am not a developer (I do do technical support), just decided I am trying to figure out - AGAIN - why it does this. I just downloaded a trial of PowerAmp. Don't know if this might help you figure out the problem. Power Amp shows my synced playlists from Windows Media Player not as a Playlist but as a music folder under folders. So far I have synced just one playlist as a test. In the folder in powerAmp, it is in the correct order. In the stock music player it is in reversed order.
I paused in typing, and after syncing multiple playlists at one shot, the list in Poweramp is garbled. The first try created a single folder with all the songs from the playlist in correct order. Now with the sync of multiple lists, I do have a couple like above but the rest either didn't come across or the music came across but not the playlist. The stock music player also has just some not all of the playlists I synced. The music is all in reverse order.
To me this suggest that problem is with the implementation of the sync on the device itself, given you have the same issue. My guess is it reads and writes the playlist from bottom up. I think there is also a burrering problem since it never seems to bring all my lists over and if that happens only some of the music.
Hope this helps, would like very much to know if you find a solution. Samsung is close to losing me as a customer over this. I care less about browsing and connectivity and more about multi functionality. A music player that works is important to me, and am considering an HTC or maybe even an IPhone (!!!) next time around just because of this - and my next upgrade is in 60 days. I HOPE YOU ARE READING THIS SAMSUNG!!!
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dakatisbak said:
Hi,
I have had my Samsung Charge since it came out. That problem has always persisted on my device. I find it extremely frustrating as the point of a smart phone is that it is multiple devices. I would like this to be my main music player as well since it has an external 32gb SD card and so can hold quite a bit of music.
I am not a developer (I do do technical support), just decided I am trying to figure out - AGAIN - why it does this. I just downloaded a trial of PowerAmp. Don't know if this might help you figure out the problem. Power Amp shows my synced playlists from Windows Media Player not as a Playlist but as a music folder under folders. So far I have synced just one playlist as a test. In the folder in powerAmp, it is in the correct order. In the stock music player it is in reversed order.
I paused in typing, and after syncing multiple playlists at one shot, the list in Poweramp is garbled. The first try created a single folder with all the songs from the playlist in correct order. Now with the sync of multiple lists, I do have a couple like above but the rest either didn't come across or the music came across but not the playlist. The stock music player also has just some not all of the playlists I synced. The music is all in reverse order.
To me this suggest that problem is with the implementation of the sync on the device itself, given you have the same issue. My guess is it reads and writes the playlist from bottom up. I think there is also a burrering problem since it never seems to bring all my lists over and if that happens only some of the music.
Hope this helps, would like very much to know if you find a solution. Samsung is close to losing me as a customer over this. I care less about browsing and connectivity and more about multi functionality. A music player that works is important to me, and am considering an HTC or maybe even an IPhone (!!!) next time around just because of this - and my next upgrade is in 60 days. I HOPE YOU ARE READING THIS SAMSUNG!!!
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Hi Oliver,
Just discovered that my Amazon MP3 cloud player has all my playlists I just synced (except one) and the songs are all in the correct order. This is confounding to me as I previously had the same reversed order issue in this player. Not sure if it has anything to do with the fact that I went into the file system dorectly and deleted all the contents from themusic related folders before doing the sync for that one then multiple lists. Not sure what happened with that one list, might be related to the fact that it is a custom CD mix ( old school club music, I need the beats for running!). Am going to try syncing that list as I really like the music that's on it. This would seem to contradict my thinking above though. Seems the issue is with the Samsung stock music itself, not the sync. HTC/Apple here I come...
Galaxy stock mp3 Player
I have Samsung Fascinate and it has the same problem with stock mp3 music player. Songs on playlist are reversed. I also tried a few other players but they are not convenient.
So as previous says we can use Amazon mp3 player and widget. It works good for me. It remembers when I paused and even after reboot. So decided use it. It doesn't interfere with other programs (I use in my car navigation app - Navigon). So its very convenient listen music and have navigation.

[Q] Music Player Woes

I've been trying to find a good music player for my GSIII for a while now and I keep running into issues. My main thing is that I want it to keep track of my metadata and Gapless Playback would be nice.
First, I was using Doubletwist with Airsync. Something would seem to go wrong every week and would require me to resync something, sometimes even my whole music library (7,000 songs.) I got tired of how long this would take and abandoned Doubletwist.
Now, I'm trying iSyncr, and have had my own issues with that. It (kind of?) shows duplicates, in the form of one less than double the songs for a particular album. (example 23 songs for a 12 song album.) It only does this for the first 15-20 artists. I tried their little media storage fix, but that doesn't work. It ends up doubling what I have in that album, and gets stuck in a "Looking for new songs..." loop and freezes. The program itself constantly shows little errors like "Device failed to update playlist." and "An operation is taking a long time." I tried to email them about these issues and never got a reply.
Did someone know of a fix for iSyncr for this or any alternatives?
I'm running CM10 Nightlies on my phone with a 64GB SD card formatted for FAT 32.
My computer is running Windows 7.

Google Play Music Issues, HELP!!!

I'm trying to ditch my iPhone, but since I rely on iTunes this seemed impossible to accomplish until I discovered Google Play Music. So I uploaded all my 8,000 songs to the server, no issues.
I rely very heavily on playlists (I have 600+ playlists in iTunes). My playlists also uploaded, but they are blank!!!
When I go to the web player site, the playlists are all blank. And my Nexus 5 device playlists are also blank. Here's what's odd: the playlists on my Xperia Z1 are all full and in perfect order. What gives?!
I deleted my library from Google Play Music and deleted my playlists manually, one by one which was quite painful, and uploaded everything again same result.
Anyone run into this issue or have helpful suggestions? I have already tried everything Google support suggested to no vail, so I turn to the experts
I'm having the same exact problem. Which OS are you running? It might have something to do with that. I'm using a Mac running OSX Mavericks. I hope someone can find a solution. Other research I have done suggests this problem has been occurring for quite some time. If you refer to my link below it shows a similar thread dating from years past. Some of the replies mention the same problem. Unfortunately for now they all seem to be a dead end.
http://androidforums.com/android-media/512896-google-music-wont-let-me-upload.html#post6458599
ssindi said:
I'm trying to ditch my iPhone, but since I rely on iTunes this seemed impossible to accomplish until I discovered Google Play Music. So I uploaded all my 8,000 songs to the server, no issues.
I rely very heavily on playlists (I have 600+ playlists in iTunes). My playlists also uploaded, but they are blank!!!
When I go to the web player site, the playlists are all blank. And my Nexus 5 device playlists are also blank. Here's what's odd: the playlists on my Xperia Z1 are all full and in perfect order. What gives?!
I deleted my library from Google Play Music and deleted my playlists manually, one by one which was quite painful, and uploaded everything again same result.
Anyone run into this issue or have helpful suggestions? I have already tried everything Google support suggested to no vail, so I turn to the experts
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Very interesting, that post was created almost two years ago and still no fix?! How typical of Google, let's just push out semi finished work, and then ignore reported bugs...
jmshupin said:
I'm having the same exact problem. Which OS are you running? It might have something to do with that. I'm using a Mac running OSX Mavericks. I hope someone can find a solution. Other research I have done suggests this problem has been occurring for quite some time. If you refer to my link below it shows a similar thread dating from years past. Some of the replies mention the same problem. Unfortunately for now they all seem to be a dead end.
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'Smart' playlists are incompatible...only 'dumb' playlists from iTunes are supported.
wideasleep1 said:
'Smart' playlists are incompatible...only 'dumb' playlists from iTunes are supported.
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My playlists are all dumb, save the few created by iTunes!
ssindi said:
My playlists are all dumb, save the few created by iTunes!
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I *think* you can re-upload using 'playlists' rather than folder...have you tried that?
Hmm, you can "upload" playlists? I always thought they have to be created manually....
ykphuah said:
Hmm, you can "upload" playlists? I always thought they have to be created manually....
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Well...they have to match the collection format in both locations, or they're invalid. Still...try to import Google Music playlists to iTunes and watch all hell break loose. Thankfully i have managed to avoid that abomination bloatware and never bought or owned anything Apple.
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When you say they have to match the collection format, what exactly do you mean? Is there anyway to verify if the formats are matched or mismatched? Obviously my guess is they are somehow mismatched if it isn't working properly. Do you have any suggestions?
wideasleep1 said:
Well...they have to match the collection format in both locations, or they're invalid. Still...try to import Google Music playlists to iTunes and watch all hell break loose. Thankfully i have managed to avoid that abomination bloatware and never bought or owned anything Apple.
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You have to open a playlist file in Notepad and look at the path. A good playlist editor will allow you to save the playlist file as 'relative'.
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wideasleep1 said:
You have to open a playlist file in Notepad and look at the path. A good playlist editor will allow you to save the playlist file as 'relative'.
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Thanks, I'll give it a try
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Google Play Music iTunes Empty or Blank Playlist Issue Fixed!
Alright, So after a stroke of luck, I've managed to solve the blank playlist issue, at least on my device (2010 Macbook Pro running OSX Mavericks)
The steps are not complicated, there are just a lot of them, also scroll to the bottom to see a short cut that might work before going through all the steps.
The apps I used:
AppCleaner
Can be found here: http://www.freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/
or here: http://download.cnet.com/AppCleaner/3000-2248_4-10867510.html
(watch out for CNET's bloatware, do the custom installation of their downloader and un-click all the add-ons)
So here's what I did:
**Deleted all of my iTunes playlists from Google Play Music using the Web Browser Interface
**Exited out of Google Play Music Manager and used AppCleaner to search for and move all the related files to the trash
(Related files being):
​MusicManager app located at /Applications/MusicManager.app
​com.google.musicmanager.plist located at ~/Library/Preferences/com.google.musicmanager.plist
​MusicManger folder located at ~/Library/Logs/MusicManager
**Note, it might be hard to delete the app if it is still in use for some reason, to delete it use the "Secure Empty Trash" in the finder menu**
***Reboot the Computer***
***Before attempting the following steps involving iTunes files, it is important to know that this will reset your iTunes and all devices linked to it. More information can be found here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1451
Go into the iTunes music folder on your computer (iTunes must be closed):
**Take the iTunes Music Library.xml and put it on your desktop, put the iTunes Library.itl in the trash (do not get these confused!)
**Reopen iTunes (all of your playlists will be gone, most of your music will be gone), and import the iTunes Music Library.xml back into iTunes using the Import Playlist Feature
**Let iTunes do its thing, this could take a while depending on how much music you have
***Finally, reinstall Google Play Music manager, select the iTunes music folder (or where ever you keep your music) and Voila! your playlists should sync when google play music finishes uploading your library. Uploading should only take a few hours or less since Music Manager is just verifying songs instead of uploading them.
Possible, Unverified Shortcut:
I realize the above steps are long, but after completing them everything worked again. If I had to guess, the source of the problem lies in one of two spots, the com.google.musicmanager.plist file, or the iTunes Music Library.xml file. If you don't feel up to completing all the steps above, I might suggest:
1.) Uninstall Google Play Music Manager, find and delete the com.google.musicmanager.plist file, then reinstall
2.) Exit out of Google Play Music Manager, complete the iTunes steps listed above, reopen Google Play Music Manger
3.) Try to complete the steps listed by wideasleep1 in the previous post
If you are running a windows computer, the steps should be similar (maybe some files in different locations), but uninstalling shouldn't be as complicated.
Sorry for writing a book, I hope this helps!!

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