Sync MediaMonkey with an Android device

Available sync modes with Android devices

There are different ways in which you can sync your MediaMonkey library with an Android device. The most convenient is to install Mediamonkey for Android, but Mediamonkey can sync with any Android device that is connected via USB cable in MTP or MSC mode.

WiFi Syncing

This is the most convenient option and offers the most features: you can sync wirelessly over WiFi, edit your files on your Android device and then sync back your ratings, playcounts etc back to your Windows database. You will need:

• Mediamonkey for Windows (MMW), version 4.1, available as beta in the forum, and
• Mediamonkey for Android (MMA), available as beta from Google play)
  

To set up wifi syncing:

1. On your desktop machine running MMW, go to Tools - Options - Media Sharing, and set up the sharing options for your library.
2. On your Android device, start Mediamonkey (MMA) and hit the "Sync now" tile.
3. On your desktop, MMW will show a popup notification that a device wants to connect for syncing. Confirm.
4. On your desktop, MMW will create a synchronization profile for your Android device. Go to Tools - Options - Portable Device Sync, highlight your device profile and click on "Configure" to select which Tracks/Artists/Albums/Genres/Folders/Playlists etc should be synced over to your device. Alternatively, you can also select what to sync within MMA's options.
5. Click on the "Sync now" tile on MMA start screen and wait for for the sync to complete. Note that WiFi syncing will be slower than syncing over an USB cable, so be patient, especially during the first sync. It's best to run this overnight.

USB Syncing

You will need to use USB Syncing instead of WiFi Syncing if you don't want to use MMA as your Android player, or if you prefer the higher transfer speeds of the USB cable.

To set up USB sync:

1. Plug your device into a USB port of your computer.
2. go to Tools - Options - Portable Device Sync and create a device profile using the correct plugin for your device: highlight the plugin, the click on "Configure".
3. For devices connected in mass storage mode, go to the "Options" tab, click on "device configuration" and tell Mediamonkey how to recognize your device (by USB device ID, by the drive letter, or the drive label).
4. Switch to the "Auto-Sync (-> device)" tab to determine which files should get synced over to your device.
5. Close the Plugin configuration and the Options panel.
6. Now you should see a new node in the tree on the left panel of Mediamonkey for your device. Right-click on it, and select Auto-Sync.
7. Wait for the sync to complete (watch the progress bar) - then safely eject your device before unplugging it from your computer.

Syncing tips and tricks

• If you want to use BOTH wifi and usb syncing with the same device (e.g. to do big syncs over the cable and small daily syncs over wifi), you should first set up your device for USB syncing, and then in the plugin configuration on the "Summary" tab, check the "grant remote sync/access rights" box to enable wifi syncing for the same profile as well. If you instead set up wifi syncing first, you will likely use a different plugin - causing you to end up with two different syncing profiles for your device - one for wifi, the other for usb.