Sync to Blackberry Problems

[jayshah]

Starlionblue,

I know you already went the iphone route but I figured I'd post this for anyone else that has the backberry sync issue. I use to have a bb curve, then went to a iphone, then went back to blackberry (for a bunch of reasons, but mainly the keyboard). Right now I have the black berry bold 2 (9700) and I'm really liking it. Even though the media player on it has come a long way, it still has the playlist sync issue (pathing, not saying its a blackberry thing, just a incompatibility with the way mm dumps out playlists to it). Not being able to have my playlists irritated me so much that I just sat down and leaned some vbscript to figure it out. I had a couple of requirements (as other people have posted about) like it should be simple, quick and one step to run, nothing complicated. I used vbscript because its native to all windows system, no need for special software or anything. Its quick and dirty but it does the job, pretty well. So now, I just sync my device and then run this .vbs from the command line (you can also just double click it), and all the playlists get fixed. I've also added some checks, so that it won't error out, like no playlists in the directory. It also won't touch any lists that are already "fixed" (something else someone posted somewhere else on the board). If anyone needs anything special in the script, let me know.

What I would love if the MM team would either code this into a dll or whatever, or just give an option to post execute a file after a sync (eliminating the need for me to run it form the command line).

All you have to do is copy this code into a file, change the "E:\" to whatever drive letter your blackberry sdmicro card shows up as (I use the cable and connect the bb directly to my laptop but it should be the same if you use a usb to sd readed) and then save the file as a .vbs Make sure you tell the sync to put the playlists in the root of the music folder (I believe this is the default), although if you want to change that you can just change the PlayListsLocation value to match. Sync your device, then just run the code. Tada...

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Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2

PlayListsLocation = "E:\BlackBerry\music\"
OldPath           = "\BlackBerry\music\"
NewPath           = "\SDCard\BlackBerry\music\"

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Set PLFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(PlayListsLocation)
set PLFiles = PLFolder.Files

for Each x in PLFiles 
  If InStr (LCase(x), ".m3u") And (x.size > 0) Then
    Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(x, ForReading)
    PlayList = objFile.ReadAll
    objFile.Close
    If Instr (PlayList, NewPath) < 1 Then
      PlayList = Replace(PlayList, OldPath, NewPath)
    End If  
    Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(x, ForWriting)
    objFile.Write PlayList
  End If 
Next

[IG-88]

Exported iTunes playlists with iTunesExport. Imported into MediaMonkey. So far so good.

Which file format, please?

m3u.


Here are all the steps I perform now, and the Word macro I use to "convert" m3u playlists from what MediaMonkey thinks my BB can read into what my BB can actually read.

1. Use iTunesExport to export my iTunes playlists into m3u format.
2. Import the playlists into Mediamonkey
3. Use Mediamonkey to sync playlists and music with BB
4. Copy the synced playlists from the BB to a temporary directory
5. Use a Word macro (detailed below) to change the playlists into a format readable by the BB
6. Copy playlists back onto BB
7. Play music


Word macro:

Sub Macro1()
'
' Macro1 Macro
'
'
End Sub
Sub BBSync()
'
' BBSync Macro
'
'
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = "\Blackberry"
.Replacement.Text = "file:///SDCard/BlackBerry"
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
With Selection.Find
.Text = "\"
.Replacement.Text = "/"
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
With Selection.Find
.Text = "mp3"
.Replacement.Text = "MP3"
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
With Selection.Find
.Text = " "
.Replacement.Text = "%20"
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub

Thanks dude, realise this thread is pretty old but I needed some way to easily sort the playlist problem out, the synching is spot on in MediaMonkey, much quicker than blackberry's own software and I wont even mention WMP. And now I've stumbled across this code you made I've edited the directory part to suit my preference and the macro sorts it out in seconds. Good work

[Anon]

http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 77#p335517
I posted my solution in another thread. I'll repost here for the people who arrive via search engine. Using MediaMonkey 4.

Just set your playlist directory to be the same as your music directory. Then set your playlists to "Force relative path". This solved my problem. Tested on blackberry curve 8530 and Torch 9800. Put all music and all playlist files in the same directory.

My settings are as follows:
File Destination: "\BlackBerry\music\<Album Artist> - <Album> - <Track#:2> <Title>"
Playlist Destination: "\BlackBerry\music\"
Under Playlists check "Force Relative Paths" and "Use Unicode"