Syncing MMW to WWA - Album Art

[rusty]

Thanks. We're looking into the best options. In the meantime, please confirm whether Auto-sync (following the config that I described, solves the problems you're experiencing).

As far as star ratings: we're going to be adding them to the next version of MMA (and additional fields in the future).

As far as prepping for your drive: I'd suggest creating an Auto-sync list of unrated tracks, and another one of rated tracks, and sync them. Then when you're on the road you can rate the tracks in the 'unrated tracks' playlist, and when you get back and auto-sync, they'll automatically be removed from that Auto-playlist (and into the other one).

That doesn't replace Sorting, but it's a good workaround until it's added.

-Rusty

[Jim Kelly]

Hi Rusty, thanks for that, I have tried to keep things simple by not trying more than one actively synced AutoPlayList. Good to know that that option is supported.

My one AutoPlaylist is working as expected as you describe thanks.

Jim Kelly

[Jim Kelly]

Hi Rusty,

Back from the trip now and am pleased to say that the Sync went perfectly from MMA phone to MMW computer.

I have since tried your tip and am pleased with the way we can have multiple AutoPlaylists happily working together. Great!

I have made some notes as we travelled that might help your enhancement lists:

⦁ Why do some Classical Albums present 8 to 12 times (with tracks split between these . . is this Album Artist?)?

⦁ Please spread the stars across the full width of the display as we had trouble selecting the right place with moderately bumpy roads

⦁ Please display the star rating whenever a list of tracks is present (just above the time?), as planned soon.

⦁ On my Samsung NOTE-2 phone, the track "number/of" font is one size too small. So are the track times.

⦁ The progress line looks good but is too finicky to use readily to fast forward or backward during PLAY. The NEXT button too.

⦁ The swipe action to get to Lyrics looks promising, but I'd like to offer some input as to what additional pages should look like.
Is there a summary somewhere as to what enhancements are planned?
** A page full of TAG info?
** A page to tick boxes for Occasion and Mood, drawing their options (including their order) from the existing choices set in MMW.
** Then include Tempo, which could be a slider to save space. Stars too if there is still room.
** Could Custom5 be set to be a star rating for our partner who, more than likely, would be helping to do the rating when in a car?

⦁ I like the way MMA remembers what is playing when you "exit", but sometimes you do want to be sure to close the program. There is no evident way to do this.

⦁ When I synced (after adding ratings via the phone linked to car stereo by BT), I was daunted by an MMA question to confirm deletion of hundreds of tracks! This would have been better if presented with a tree of Albums, then tracks. Anything to help make it clear that MMA was correct with it's vague suggestion. I expect that the ticks should already be ON at this stage, and that I should simply confirm delete in the usual way.
** This process ended with this message:
*** Updated 56 tracks
*** Deleted 226 tracks
*** Updated 1 playlist(s) from server
** I am left with no idea why the 56 tracks were updated? I am almost certain the database on the server has been dormant all of that time whilst away, IE, between syncs.

* It is not clear which is the current ALBUM when you get back to that page. It needs something distinctive to be changed so that you immediately know what has just played.

* And finally, it became hard to know which tracks still needed rating towards the end of the trip. A star filter would have been good to just show albums with unrated tracks, and then to hide the rated tracks.

Thanks again . . am enjoying the facilities that you have provided and look forward to seeing what is coming up,

[Jim Kelly]

Perhpas this last post of mine has not been seen by the dev team, so I will
post a tidier version to the "Beta Testing, Bugs & Feature requests (mma)" forum as a new post.

I'd like to add that:
* The symbols for "Random" and "Repeat" are not intuitive
. . . when they are OFF it would be best if they were a pale gray colour instead of bright white.

Thanks,

[Jim Kelly]

I have been using MMA 1.1.2.0415 extensively whilst travelling and would like to offer the following comments to help the development team:

⦁ Why do some Classical Albums present 8 to 12 times (with tracks split between these) . . perhaps it is presenting us with "Album Artist" instead of "Album (name)" ?

⦁ Please spread the stars across the full width of the display as we had trouble selecting the right place when on moderately bumpy roads
Also, whilst selecting the star rating area it is too easy to take it out of the mode where the stars are shown.

⦁ Please display the star rating whenever a list of tracks is present (just above the time?), as planned soon, it will be immensely useful.

⦁ On my Samsung NOTE-2 phone, the track "number/of" font is (probably) one size too small to see easily. Same with the track times.

⦁ The progress line looks good but is too finicky to use readily to select a place further forward or back during PLAY. The NEXT button can be too finicky too.

* The symbols for "Random" and "Repeat" are not intuitive
. . . when they are OFF it would be best if they were a pale gray colour instead of bright white.

⦁ The swipe action to get to Lyrics looks very promising for further development, but I'd like to offer some input as to what additional pages should look like.
Is there a summary somewhere as to what such enhancements are planned?? EG (for the currently playing song):
** A page to tick boxes for Occasion and Mood, drawing the options (including their order) from the existing choices set in MMW.
** Then include Tempo. Star Rating too, if there is still room on the same page.
** A page crammed full of TAG info?

** Could Custom5 be set to be a "Star rating for our partner" who, more than likely, would be helping to do the rating when travelling in a car?

* It is not clear which is the current ALBUM when you get back to that page. It needs something distinctive to be changed so that you immediately know what has just played.

* It became hard to know which tracks still needed rating towards the end of the trip. A star filter would have been good to just show albums with unrated tracks, and then to hide the rated tracks. Of course this is just for when we are vetting new music to see what tracks we like.

⦁ I like the way MMA remembers what is playing when you "exit", but sometimes you do want to be sure to close the program. There is no evident way to do this.

Thanks again . . am enjoying the facilities that you have provided and look forward to seeing what is coming up,

[GMGJ]

I have had a smartphone for 2 weeks now. So maybe I am missing something. Nexus 6, latest updates. MM pro. How do You EXIT, quit, close, ?

[nohitter151]

I have had a smartphone for 2 weeks now. So maybe I am missing something. Nexus 6, latest updates. MM pro. How do You EXIT, quit, close, ?

I have a nexus 6 also. You don't really need to close MM. It will shut down on it's own if you are not playing music. If you really want to force it closed press the square button at the bottom of your phone screen (app switcher button) then press the X next to MediaMonkey (or swipe right) to close.

[GMGJ]

Thanks. I noticed the fan site in your profile. Learned 2 new good things today! MM user since around year 2