Copying music from MMW to MMA over wifi

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Copying music from MMW to MMA over wifi

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Hi everyone,

I feel I must be missing something obvious here, and I was hoping someone could help me out.

I'm trying to simply copy songs from my computer(Windows 10) to my phone(Samsung s10) over wifi. It's unclear to me how this may or may not relate to what MM terms "sync"ing as the help files do not make it clear just what "sync"ing actually is. I've read http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... oid_device and it's not at all clear to me.

Right now i have my UPnP server communicating well from my computer to my phone but all it seems to do is harmonize information about the music between computer and phone, but not actually transfer the music itself.

Is that all the syncing is meant to do? If so, how does one actually transfer music to a device? If not, what am I missing here to complete that step?

Thanks!
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Re: Copying music from MMW to MMA over wifi

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Sync copies the media files to your device and also copies Playlists and metadata. So you can either do a wifi or USB sync to copy files from MMW to MMA. Although written for the new MediaMonkey 5, this explains how to setup Sync: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... Tracks/5.0

UPnP allows streaming (playing of files only) of media from the MediaMonkey Media Server (playing of files only).
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Re: Copying music from MMW to MMA over wifi

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Thanks a lot for that.

Managed to get the USB option working but not WIFI.

On https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... 6_Services it says
Portable Devices are automatically added when connected via USB to your PC
but nothing about that occurring over WIFI.

That is significant as currently MMW does not see my device(even when sync occurs successfully) when the device is not connected via USB. This seems to strongly indicate that file transfer over WIFI is not possible, but I'd love to be shown I'm wrong. Ideas?

Thanks again!
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Re: Copying music from MMW to MMA over wifi

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Re: Copying music from MMW to MMA over wifi

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Thank you.

Interesting. There doesn't appear to be an option under MMA to actually transfer files. Looked it over pretty extensively.
Sync itself doesn't appear to do any transferring.

Is there a method for that? It's a bit like my original post - I feel there must be something obvious here I'm missing as I don't see how that actually works.

Thank you
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Re: Copying music from MMW to MMA over wifi

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Yes, Sync copies files from MMW to MMA. It does require you to have something selected to be synced: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/WebHel ... _Device.29
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Re: Copying music from MMW to MMA over wifi

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Thanks very much, I really appreciate it.

If I could offer suggestions - the UX needs a really big lookover. This was a very confusing process and without your help there is no way I could have guessed what to think.
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