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How To: Properly Sync Music To Android With MediaMonkey | RickyCadden.com

from the site:

• Mount your phone in USB Mode to your computer, and note the drive letter that it is associated
• Open this drive in Windows Explorer and create the appropriate folders where you want your music stored. I have one called ‘Music’ and one called ‘Playlists’, but you can do this however you want.
• Now launch MediaMonkey, and make sure it shows your phone’s memory card in the left sidebar (separately from the MyComputer option)
• In MediaMonkey, click on ‘Tools’ up top, then choose ‘Options’ and go down to ‘Portable/Audio Devices’
• Uncheck *all* of the plug-ins except ‘d_USBMass1.dll’
• Highlight ‘d_USBMass1.dll’ and click on the Configure button to the right
• Choose the ‘Device Configuration’ tab in the dialog box that popped up
• In the middle of this tab, you’ll see a box called ‘Device Name’, which is where you’ll type the name of your phone (mine is ‘NexusOne’)
• Below this, choose the appropriate drive letter from the drop-down
• Below this, enter a Drive Label (again, mine is ‘NexusOne’)

Leave the ‘USB Device ID’ box empty and don’t click the ‘Find Device’ button
While you have this dialog box open, you can tinker with the other tabs, if you want. This is where you can specify a folder hierarchy and adjust your sync settings. I would recommend creating a small playlist (~15-20 tracks from various artists/genres/albums) to test with – you don’t want to do a full sync only to realize you don’t like your sync settings.

This guide is better because it allows for the use of smart playlists and has much fewer steps than if you use winamp.

EasyEEE

Now, what if I have another device, like 3 iPods and a Creative Zen Vision:M 30GB?

RichSz

MediaMonkey is a great program! Thanks for sharing the procedure.

I don't understand what the advantage of following the sync procedure is relative to just mounting the phone as a USB drive and dragging your music to where ever you wish. I think I'm missing an important point.

Storm613

I think Salling Media Sync is the easiest way... but whatever floats your boat.

Khorgan

Excelent and perfect explanation. Thanks for your report man. I really appreciate it.
Khorgan

jnkond

Hi - I have a new Droid 3 and have been trying to get my music onto it in a stable way with no success. Get the music there and then it just starts to disappear and I get files in lost.dir. Latest try was just to copy to mounted sd card - do you think using this monkey program would help? I have tried doubletwist and isyncr too.

ArgoDave

I do that too since I've spent much time in the past organizing my music into Folders that I prefer to stay intact as my Playlists. Unless every single song is fully tagged correctly many Apps just mess them all up. iTunes was bad for that.