nohitter151 wrote:Did you check the filesystem after the sync to see that the files you mean to copy over with MM are actually copied at all?
Most definitely. They were there, and I could even browse to them and manually play them direct from the file browser.
After doing a lot more tooling around, I think I discovered the problem, and it was an interesting one. Do to certain long-winded particulars I won't detail right now, I keep my music collection on my hard drive sorted into the following folder structure:
C:\Files\MP3s\ as the main containing folder
C:\Files\MP3s\Tunes\ contains all my regular listening
C:\Files\MP3s\PODCASTS\ contains all my podcasts
C:\Files\MP3s\Books\ contains my audiobooks
When I synched to the Droid, I synched to:
(root)\MP3s\Tunes
and
(root)\MP3s\PODCASTS
After a few test syncs, all files in and underneath the \Tunes\ folder were read and played just fine. However, anything that was synched to the \PODCASTS\ folder was unable to be read by the Music or Mixzing apps, and only payed if I started them manually from the filesystem. These files did, however, appear tagged as albums and artists in Mixzing, although no actual tracks were listed.
If I copied the files out of the PODCASTS folder into any other, they were instantly seen by the music apps. Putting them back into PODCASTS made them vanish again. Synching anything else to PODCASTS kept that data hidden as well. Only by renaming the PODCASTS folder to just "Pods" was I able to fix it and preserve the directory structure I wanted. Renaming the folder worked just fine, too.
Very weird. After that I stopped fooling around with it. It could be that the Droid just doesn't like folders with all-caps names, but I'm not sure.
[quote="nohitter151"]Did you check the filesystem after the sync to see that the files you mean to copy over with MM are actually copied at all?[/quote]
Most definitely. They were there, and I could even browse to them and manually play them direct from the file browser.
After doing a lot more tooling around, I think I discovered the problem, and it was an interesting one. Do to certain long-winded particulars I won't detail right now, I keep my music collection on my hard drive sorted into the following folder structure:
C:\Files\MP3s\ as the main containing folder
C:\Files\MP3s\Tunes\ contains all my regular listening
C:\Files\MP3s\PODCASTS\ contains all my podcasts
C:\Files\MP3s\Books\ contains my audiobooks
When I synched to the Droid, I synched to:
(root)\MP3s\Tunes
and
(root)\MP3s\PODCASTS
After a few test syncs, all files in and underneath the \Tunes\ folder were read and played just fine. However, anything that was synched to the \PODCASTS\ folder was unable to be read by the Music or Mixzing apps, and only payed if I started them manually from the filesystem. These files did, however, appear tagged as albums and artists in Mixzing, although no actual tracks were listed.
If I copied the files out of the PODCASTS folder into any other, they were instantly seen by the music apps. Putting them back into PODCASTS made them vanish again. Synching anything else to PODCASTS kept that data hidden as well. Only by renaming the PODCASTS folder to just "Pods" was I able to fix it and preserve the directory structure I wanted. Renaming the folder worked just fine, too.
Very weird. After that I stopped fooling around with it. It could be that the Droid just doesn't like folders with all-caps names, but I'm not sure.