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How do you manage music between foobar and your portable media player?

I have a Galaxy S3 that I use as my phone as well as pmp.

I used to use foo_dop for when I had an ipod, but now I no longer have an ipod nor does foo_dop seem to be supported. Foo_dop was amazing to me though, because I could click one button and the plugin would immediately:
1) recognize what songs were not on my ipod
2) transcode the songs to my specified format for my phone
3) copy them to my phone and they would instantly appear in my library

This allowed me to quickly add music to my library at home, then sync for 10 seconds and add the songs very fast. Very "Apple"-ish, of course I'm not really an apple fan but it was convenient.

Nowadays, I am in a tangle. My music is all FLAC, but I realize this is overkill for a pmp. So I have to manually go onto foobar, convert every song that I want to put on my phone, put it in a manually labled folder, and drag the folders into my music program.

I was wondering if there were any more streamlined ways of doing this? I feel like it's the stone age with this method, but maybe it's the best way anyway.

Shortly: How do you manage your music between foobar and pmp?

Thanks for your time

How do you manage music between foobar and your portable media player?

Reply #1 –
I don't have a smartphone, so I might be missing something, but can't you simply set the phone drive (and whichever subfolder the music is stored in) as the destination of the conversion process? With some titleformatting you can set it to automatically create additional subfolders and rename the files according to your taste. That would also ensure that you'd get an overwrite prompt whenever a track already exists on the device. At least this is how I use my plain old media player.

How do you manage music between foobar and your portable media player?

Reply #2 –
Quote from: Daeron on
I don't have a smartphone, so I might be missing something, but can't you simply set the phone drive (and whichever subfolder the music is stored in) as the destination of the conversion process? With some titleformatting you can set it to automatically create additional subfolders and rename the files according to your taste. That would also ensure that you'd get an overwrite prompt whenever a track already exists on the device. At least this is how I use my plain old media player.

Sadly, this is not possible since modern Android phones use MTP instead of USB mass storage.

How do you manage music between foobar and your portable media player?

Reply #3 –
Quote from: Reith on
Quote from: Daeron on
I don't have a smartphone, so I might be missing something, but can't you simply set the phone drive (and whichever subfolder the music is stored in) as the destination of the conversion process? With some titleformatting you can set it to automatically create additional subfolders and rename the files according to your taste. That would also ensure that you'd get an overwrite prompt whenever a track already exists on the device. At least this is how I use my plain old media player.

Sadly, this is not possible since modern Android phones use MTP instead of USB mass storage.



http://www.xda-developers.com/android/usb-...amsung-devices/

How do you manage music between foobar and your portable media player?

Reply #4 –
I stand corrected.

Too bad that only works for Samsung devices or I'd use it too.

How do you manage music between foobar and your portable media player?

Reply #5 –
Quote from: kareha on
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/usb-...amsung-devices/

It would still be nice if there was a way to sync fb2k and the pmp via MTP because it is more secure than MSC. With an MSC device, disconnection during a transfer leads to file system corruption, whereas there's no such corruption with MTP.

How do you manage music between foobar and your portable media player?

Reply #6 –
if you want MTP/sync support, i think your best bet is to find some other software. i don't think you'll ever see anything like it for foobar.

How do you manage music between foobar and your portable media player?

Reply #7 –
Quote from: marc2003 on
if you want MTP/sync support, i think your best bet is to find some other software. i don't think you'll ever see anything like it for foobar.

No, my best bet is still foobar2000. Sure, the fact that I have to manually sync it with my Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini is a disadvantage. But foobar has so many unique features which I don't find elsewhere so that it's overall still the best media player for me.

While I admit that I know nothing about coding/writing plugins for foobar, I cannot imagine it would be extremely difficult to add MTP support. I'm just guessing this from the fact that there are a gazillion players out there which can transfer via MTP (banshee, Clementine, MediaMonkey, Songbird, MusicBee, ...)

MTP has become the de-facto standard on Android devices. Besides, MTP has another core advantage over MSC besides the one I've mentioned in a previous post: it doesn't demand exclusive access to the partition. This comes in handy in a number of situations (e.g., when you have Android apps installed on an SD card).

How do you manage music between foobar and your portable media player?

Reply #8 –
Quote from: aztec_mystic on
But foobar has so many unique features which I don't find elsewhere so that it's overall still the best media player for me.


i was only suggesting you use an alternative to manage your device with. you could still use foobar for everything else. it's not like you are forced to use only one program for everything.

How do you manage music between foobar and your portable media player?

Reply #9 –
Hi,

now with this fundraiser for a android foobar2000 version, are there any plans for the windows version of foobar2000 to transfer the files directly to an android phnoe ?

How do you manage music between foobar and your portable media player?

Reply #10 –
I try to have a cool live, not complicated.
I copied music and covers of my library Flac and mp3 on a sd card and listen using Poweramp with my Galaxy S4.
I don't need to synchronise with the music of my computer.

How do you manage music between foobar and your portable media player?

Reply #11 –
Good for you.

I want to select some of my albums in foobar2000 and send it to my Galaxy S3 as I can send it to my iPod classic with foodop.

How do you manage music between foobar and your portable media player?

Reply #12 –
Quote from: musikomaniak on
I try to have a cool live, not complicated.
I copied music and covers of my library Flac and mp3 on a sd card and listen using Poweramp with my Galaxy S4.
I don't need to synchronise with the music of my computer.


I appreciate that people want Foo to be the only app on their computer and try to get it to do *everything*, but sometimes even FB needs some help!

I found *MobileGo* to be even more convenient than using direct USB to sync to various androids I've had.

export from FB and then use it to convert/sync

How do you manage music between foobar and your portable media player?

Reply #13 –
I use foo_dop to send music to my iPod Touch 4G as I downgraded it to 4.3.3 so its still compatible.

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Reply #14 –
In case people (like me this past week) stumble upon this topic and want to know how to do it, here is a pretty good option, and very powerful. Since android is now MTP only for file transferring, I think this may be relevant. If anyone feels like they want to copy this text into a new topic, that's fine with me.

I just upgraded so a galaxy s7 so had to re-transfer all my music, and I have a lot, like 80GB and probably tens of thousands of songs so I wanted to find the most efficient way of doing this.

Since storage is no so cheap, the first thing I do is have a separate "Music for Phone" folder on my computer or external hard drive that has a mirror of what I want on my phone. Whenever I add new music to my music for phone folder (or update/change it) I can then simply move those changes to my phone instead of having to "merge" the entire folder again (which takes hours at 80GB).

In Foobar, goto Library menu-->Albumlist and then use the copyto function from the file operations. Setup a profile of where you want to store this "Music for Phone" folder and how you want the files named. For example I use
%artist%/%album%/[%tracknumber%] %title%
as it will make different directories for artists and then their albums*.

To transfer that music to phone I use the program freefilesync and WOW it is powerful, quick and easy to use. It reads and syncs great with MTP devices. Briefly, there is an update (just copy anything new to phone), mirror (make phone directory exactly like music folder, will delete things off phone if deleted from source folder) and a true sync option that updates both directories (in case you make changes to both the source folder and on your phone and want to keep all the changes.)

Hope this helps someone else and saves them the week I've spent trying to do this well.

*For people who have multiple versions of the same song, for example lots of live concerts, it may cause a problem of not all of them being copied if their resulting file names and locations will be the same. A work around for this is twofold. Monitor the errors log and see if it looks as though foobar didn't copy some songs because they already exist. If this happens, you'll have to recopy them and/or change your naming scheme to make sure they will be different.

If adding new music to your phone collection, you can also have foobar copy to a temp directory and then use windows explorer or whatever file manager you use and copy all the files from that to the true music source directory. Most modern file managers will tell you if there are duplicate files and will easily help you either copy over them or rename them, etc.

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Reply #15 –
Thanks, bmcelvan. Y'know, I've used FreeFileSync for a long time to make backups -- it's great! -- and not once did it occur to me to use it to synch music to my smartphone.
That's so plausible, I can't believe it.

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Reply #16 –
Since you already dug out this old thread, let me contribute some up to date information: You can also sync your smartphone with foobar mobile or foo_onewaysync.

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Reply #17 –
Thanks so much for this info, I didn't know it worked with MTP. Gonna try it tonight, will let you know results.

Quote from: zimjo on
Since you already dug out this old thread, let me contribute some up to date information: You can also sync your smartphone with foobar mobile or foo_onewaysync.

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Reply #18 –
So I installed foo_onewaysync and it didn't do anything. Literally, nothing!

 I goto file opertations-->onewaysync-->select and it brings up a window that has two menu/list options one of which is called destination and neither populate with anything. They are just blank menus!

If I use "last used" instead of "select" it gives an error saying you need windows media player 10 or newer installed. I'm using windows 7 so verison 12 in already installed?

I'm literally dumbfounded about how this plugin works.