Playlists on OTG USB-stick are not seen [#20030]

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Re: Playlists on OTG USB-stick are not seen [#20030]

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Thank you, Peke, for your information. I forwarded it to their support demanding an answer.

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Re: Playlists on OTG USB-stick are not seen [#20030]

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Hi,
My pleasure, sorry for all I caused, but after 20+ HU installed I pay attention on every small details and hate when some company that was great in past tries some curve-ball.

If https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... specdevice works on it you should also send them that too as it is Hardware SOC information.
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Re: Playlists on OTG USB-stick are not seen [#20030]

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Doesnt work on radio
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Re: Playlists on OTG USB-stick are not seen [#20030]

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Dancer wrote: Mon May 15, 2023 10:01 am Doesnt work on radio
:( try this one https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... puid.cpu_z
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Re: Playlists on OTG USB-stick are not seen [#20030]

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I installed the app and run it. Also I clicked on "validate". It is green colored and seems to be valid.
Do you want the result displayed here or as PN?
Here is the first output:

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However, the app says display is 9.2 inches and in reality it is 8.
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Re: Playlists on OTG USB-stick are not seen [#20030]

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Hm... Interesting Based on https://fixyourandroid.com/about/what-i ... oid_Kernel kernel 4.9.117 is from Android Pie (8) era.

Interesting thing is that on XDA I can't find Android 12 MTCx ROM only up to Android 10 and some Android 11 tries. Also 2GB RAM/32GB ROM points to older Devices SOC eg. I have 4GB/32GB PX5 device from 2016. interesting really.

Anyway if it works then enjoy. I cann't clam anything unless I have device in my hands, but I have seen fair share of fake info on Android Head Units. Generally if it works for you then enjoy.
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In any case, thank you very much for your comments.
I'm curious to see what happens with MMA on the device. It's not a huge problem for now because I can play MMA via Bluetooth and via Android Auto.
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@Pete Should I get beta for that device to help with the troubleshooting?
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Hi,
Yes, MMA 2.0 Beta is very very stable.
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Re: Playlists on OTG USB-stick are not seen [#20030]

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I joined beta testing now.
Also I checked OTD with a tool that says it works on my android radio. However, that is meant for moving or copying files only I suppose, but not for full support of playing music with MMA, right?

Meanwhile I found out that MMA is scanning all music files and then displaying them, but without getting the cover images. And next start of device scanning starts again.
Playlists still are not seen yet.

I asked myself what solution Power Amp might have to be able to add the usb music library and playlists with all cover images.
@Pete, you wrote that the problem is changing of ID. Is it difficult to relate on certain device name instead? I.e. I called my usb-stick "Music auto". And it is displayed with this name in android file manager and in MMA too.
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Hi,
No, As in order to unify settings both MMA, MM5 depend on Partition ID to track moving removable storage across devices.

We plan to make OTG database more permanent eg. that Storage DM is located on Device itself so that when you plug Storage in any other device it will not need to go thru whole Scanning process on restart.

Downside is that it is still on to do till all major issues and stable version gets out.

Unfortunately we are in minority and need to wait.
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Re: Playlists on OTG USB-stick are not seen [#20030]

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Thank you, @Pete . I will remain patient. As I said, I can use MMA from smartphone via Bluetooth or Android Auto, including all playlists. I am glad that MediaMonkey is available. It has a much better UI for me - also in MMA - than any other app, i. e. Power Amp (that I mentioned).
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Update: I have since moved the library to the Android radio's hard drive instead of a USB stick, but even in this variant the playlist folder with 22 playlists is not recognized. When I refer to the folder, there is a message that it is empty.
This had not happened to me with smartphone and tablet, however, I have synchronized both with MMW.
Unfortunately, this does not work with the car radio, because the laptop has Linux installed (Windows only in the home).

Is there an explanation or possibly even a solution? At the moment I helped myself by creating the playlists manually. But for the future it would be good if MMA can also read playlists directly.
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Re: Playlists on OTG USB-stick are not seen [#20030]

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Hi,
You can supply ZIP-ed sample of few playlists that MMA do not read in Support Ticket and I'll be glad to look at them and see why MMA do not read them.
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Re: Playlists on OTG USB-stick are not seen [#20030]

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No need uploading the files. I found out that some of them have lines with #exif at start.
I deleted the lines and now the Playlist folder is readable.
Why is the standard export format with these lines and not just the relative path?
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