1708 Tip: send HD playlists to device

[chrisjj]

Anyone like me who previously struggled to use MM as a tool to simply send a folder of HD playlists (and tracks thereby referenced) to a device might like to know that the MM3->4 improvements have made it this achievable almost completely automatically i.e. on a CMD command, without operator attention. Here's the recipe.

To set up.

1 Make a portable install and launch
2 In Options, checkmark "Scan at startup", uncheckmark "Allow just one instance of MediaMonkey"
3 Move all but one playlist out of your playlists folder
4 Run Add/Rescan to import the playlists folder
5 Checkmark device auto-sync Playlists, Imported playlists
6 Delete the library playlist and its tracks
7 Restore your playlists
8 On device profile, checkmark "Scan as soon as the device is connected", "Automatically unmount device after Auto-Sync"
9 Make any customisations e.g. set background to distinguish this instance, delete unwanted collections.
10 Make a copy of MM.DB file named "FreshMM.DB"
11 In a batch file, put a commands to copy "Fresh MM.DB" and launch MM e.g.

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copy FreshMM.DB tools\MediaMonkeyToDAP\Portable\MM.DB
start "" /wait "tools\MediaMonkeyToDAP\MediaMonkey.exe"

If you're using non-skinned, /wait fails. To remedy, substitute "MediaMonkey (non-skinned).exe"

To run (send all your HD playlists to the device):

1 Launch batch file
2 Wait for status bar to show Add/Rescan completion
3 Click device Auto-sync.

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I'd like to make this 100% automatic, i.e. eliminate run steps 2 and 3. This would be possible if "Auto-Sync as soon as the device is connected" waited for the Add/Rescan to complete. But it does not. Anyone have a solution?