FolderSync rsjtdrjgfuzkfg
Sync Playlists or the whole Library with a folder! You can use USB-Mass-Storage-Devices with this Add-On. If you use Rockbox on a FolderSynced device, you can also track your play counts.
Sync your Bird with any folder you want!
FolderSync gives you the opportunity to sync songs to any folder you can specify with an absolute path. So you can for example sync with USB-Mass-Storage-Devices.
And there are some additional features like playlist writing and Rockbox sync (if you sync to a Rockbox device).
You can access FolderSync through its node in the left sidebar (under the Library and Download nodes).
If you need additional information how to use FolderSync, FolderSync's Manual might help:
Features:
Issues with other AddOns
Known Bugs
If the Add-On doesn't work at your machine, please post here!
If you like the Add-On you might translate it into your language:
Click here to go to Babelzilla.org
If somebody want to code some features' implementation, write a comment and/or write a eMail!
Please post a comment and/or rate, don't be afraid posting bugs and ideas!
Note that POTI, the company behind Songbird, disabled comments on add-ons a long time ago. Sadly, there were no visible intentions to bring the comment feature back, as it was announced at first.
For this Add-on, please leave comments, ideas, bug reports and stuff at the Nightingale forums, as the same code is used in Nightingale, a community fork of Songbird.
Songbird doesn't seem to include new features currently, which makes version bumping rather unnecessary. E.g. the current version is compartible until Songbird 3.0. If somebody finds issues with a songbird version, please contact me, for example via the nightingale forums (getnightingale.com), as I do not test on Songbird anymore.
Nice idea, but one major bug :
I create a "test" playlist with 3 songs, and sync it with my USB key (F:\)
result : the add-on delete all file at the root folder, and add the three songs.
It was not important files... but I advise users to be cautious !!!
Also, do you mind putting your add-on on Google Code ? I think I can help with interface, code, etc.
You can find me at #songbird irc, MEstk [at] hotmail.com (msn messenger) and mail : geekshadow [at] gmail.com
Good to finally see an add-on like this! But, where do I specify sync folder? Am I missing something? The preferences button for the FolderSync add-on is greyed out. I don't see any way to operate FolderSync - Songbird 1.1.2 on a MacBook.
@shetlandlord:
You have to use the mediaview "folder sort" there is a textfield in top of the selected playlist. Please post a second time if it works on mac or not cause i have no mac to test the addon.
@all:
Look at the new version ;)
This Add-on isn't compatible to german language. After install, there appear a windows and say i have to close songbird or restart in english, when opening the add-on-menu.
by the way: thanks for developing this add-on, finally all non-i-pod-users can sync there players with songbird.
@the_tk:
I use a german Songbird, too. Without problems. Can you post the Songbird-Version, your OS and the Language-Pack-Version?
Works on my MacBook, but Songbird appears to be frozen during the sync. After clicking on "start sync" I get the spinning beach ball and Finder tells me that Songbird is "not responding", all the while I can see files being added to and deleted from the sync folder. Bottom line is that the sync works, but Songbird is frozen during the process.
I'd like to second the_tk's comment. Thanks!!! for developing this add-on! Not being able to sync my (non-apple) phone/mp3 player with iTunes was one of the main reasons I dumped that app.
Screen?
@shetlandlord:
Try the new version. The initial release had the problem that the sync is performed in the main thread, so you can't do anything else or see the statusbar. The new version has a separate thread, so you can see the sync working and the main thread won't be frozen.
@Jerome:
Ok. A screen. But the interface will change soon.
The new Version supports German. Do you want to translate it into your language?
http://www.babelzilla.org/index.php?option=com_wts&Itemid=88&extension=5079&type=lang
Doesn't work with special characters in the filenames/tags like german umlauts ä, ö, ü. Otherwise very nice addon!
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg
I just translate it to French !
Can you consider my first comment please ?
@shetlandlord:
It freezes on my PC, too.
But it works, when you wait long enough.
That's probably because your device is slow.
Just wait, it's takes its time =)
Hey nice addon!
Since you asked for suggestions, I would like to outline my idea file transfer experience. I am sure this is all probably self evident and in the works but here it is anyway. I would like to highlight the various tracks in my library, and then right click to have the popup menu with an option like "transfer to.." selecting this would have a dialog box come up with the text field to enter the designated folder, and the standard browse folders button, since I never type if I can help it. Below this would be two buttons, one would say something like "Sync (WARNING: this will delete all other files in destination folder)" and the other button would say "Transfer". Because sometimes I want to completely redo my 1GB mp3 player, and sometimes I just want to add a few more tracks to what is there. If one could also create a new folder though this addon, then that would basically be everything I could want for file transfer.
Hope you keep working on this one!
Cheers
Brian
@JimmyV2
@shetlandlord
Do you use Version 0.1.1.1?
@bwgia:
A better UI will come in future releases. A option to transfer without sync may come, but not that soon. Why don't you create a playlist for sync with your player? You can simply add and remove tracks, and the changes will be written to your player.
Yup, play list manipulation is the easiest thing for now. I was just talking about my ideal experience, and the thing is, I think it's nice to only spend a minute transferring over a couple of songs, without altering a play list too. I guess ultimately what I want my media player to do is manage files on the drive, moving them, copying them and deleting them without having to leave the player environment. I know this isn't exactly what this extension is about, but I miss this functionality in Songbird, and this extension DOES get it that one step closer. Anyway, it now allows songbird to work with my portable media players, and that's the main thing. Thanks!
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg: I'm using the lastest version (0.1.1.2) and it isn't freezing anymore.
Thanks =)
Look at the new version ;)
@bwgia:
Thanks for your idea!
@Flintz:
Try the new version, and post if it work ;)
I changed something there!
I have downloaded version 0.2.0.2 of this add-on for Songbird 1.1.2 on Linux Mint 5, Mac OS X 10.5.6, and Windows XP SP 2 and nowhere can I find how to choose a sync folder as stated above:
You have to use the mediaview "folder sort" there is a textfield in top of the selected playlist.
There is no additional Media View available besides the default two after installing the add-on. I see no text field in the top of any playlist.
Can someone produce any short documentation about how to use this add-on? It sounds like exactly what I need to sync my non-iPod device.
After more poking around with the software, I found where the FolderSync interface shows up. I had to toggle between mashTape and FolderSync in the Display Pane area.
A few findings: My Linux and Windows versions seem to work just fine. I have had no such success with the Mac version, though. I click Start Sync and nothing happens.
I'm happy to test any further releases.
@voluntaryist:
Since version 0.2 folderSync uses a diaplay pane, cause you can sync more than one playlist into one folder. I have no mac, so I can't test it. I don't know the syntax of paths in mac, maybe there is a problem?
Thanks for posting!
Thanks for adding my chances :)
Your add-on is awesome ;)
Is it possible to add me to your Google Code project ?
You just need to put my mail (geekshadow@gmail.com) in members section in administration tab.
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg:
Thanks for your follow-up. I have just installed version 0.3.0.1 on my Mac and get the same lack of response from the Start Sync button. Hopefully someone comes along who can help with the code.
I do like the Browse button and the multiple sync folders, though. Keep up the good work!
@voluntaryist:
I have no mac, so i can't try. could you look in the error-console if something happens there when you press the start sync button?
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg:
Nothing appears in the Error Console after pressing Start Sync, even after a restart.
@voluntaryist:
Try the Debug-Version at
http://code.google.com/p/sbfoldersync/wiki/Downloads?tm=2
and post the messages you get.
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg:
Using foldersync_0.3.0.2_debug.xpi on Songbird 1.1.2, Build 1042 (20090331141845) on Mac OS X version 10.5.6. Here is a list of all the messages that appeared in the [JavaScript Application] box after pressing the Start Sync button. Each line is a new message that appeared after pressing OK.
Button pressed
Button disabled
Got Sync-Task
Got Refresh-Task
Got Selection-String
At least one Playlist selected.
Threads are there.
Sync-Task init started
Sync-Task init Shorthand ok
create path ok
connect path to folder
path connected
path exists
path-entries ok
entries are pushed into variable Files
Playlists are in array!
Sync-Task init END
Sync-Task Init is done.
Start Sync. No errors up to now!
Sync-Task started.
Start Refresh-Task
Refresh-Task is up and running.
Refresh-Task got MainThread.
Start-Values in UI set.
Sync-Task seems to be finished.
UI reset successfully
Sync Task got NO errors
Button successfully re-enabled.
THE END.
Hopefully you can get something out of this. Although, it seems to me that it thinks everything went swell.
I started thinking more carefully. I think the problem was that I was trying to sync a playlist that had files on a network drive that I had not accessed before syncing.
I tried it again with local files and it worked. Then I tried it after accessing the network drive and those files worked, too.
Sorry if I caused any headaches! I'm really happy about this add-on. Thank you!
@voluntaryist:
Every debug message seems to be ok. I think there is a problem while acessing files in the sync-task. There can't be any debug messages or error messages in the error console, cause it is not part of the main Thread.
Maybe there will be another debug version with logging in this thread, but I'm currently busy. I'm happy that it works with pre-accessing the network, so have fun with the Add-On!
Thank you! This is perfect for syncing my files with the sd card for my cellphone. This is exactly what I needed, since I currently have to be very selective of which songs I can put on (currently only have s 256 mb sd card). Syncs perfectly with my playlists. This should be a standard add-on for Songbird.
minor spelling mistakes
"You just started FolderSync the first time. This Add-On gives your the opportunity to sync songbirs's playlists and libraries to every folder you want. Sync means that new files are copied and old files and files thar are no part of the sync-process are DELETED."
should be
"You just started FolderSync the first time. This Add-On gives your the opportunity to sync songbirds's playlists and libraries to every folder you want. Sync means that new files are copied and old files and files there are no part of the sync-process are DELETED.""
thanks! it is very good idea.
i will use your addon to sync my ipod (5.5G) with Rockbox. (cause i don't like ipod method of data managing).
but, i think, it would be better, if songs will be copied in target folder with any structure (maybe optional or ideally configurable), like Folder/Artist/Album/Song or anything like it.
also it would be very helpful, if you'll write in description how to find this addon in the songbird (:
yesterday, i've spent a lot of time searching for it...
I've been using FolderSync for a couple of weeks to sync up my Sony NWZ-A828 and it was working well. Now however the FolderSync Media View seems to have disappeared. I've tied installing FolderSync -.3.0.5 again and it is there in the Add-Ons but it no longer appears as an option in View-MediaViews. Other views still appear (FilterPane, List, MediaFlow, Ghost, Duplicate) but not FolderSync.
Now I have no way of syncing up my mp3 player :(
@longbow:
Will be implemented in 0.4.0.1
Thanks! (by the way sorry for my bad english...)
@luffedelly:
Nice idea, i thought about it already...
Look above ;)
@CarlWalters:
Cause you can sync more than one playlist with the Add-On (implemented in Version 0.2.0.1) the Add-On registers an Display-Pane (as Clamm told at getSatisfaction). Prior versions has a media view.
@all:
Thanks for comments, bugs and ideas! :)
absolute noob question coming up... how do i get it to start once i've downloaded!?
don't worry got it now haha
@mills:
It depends on the browser you use. If you use Songbird itself, there is a Install-button in the top-left corner of this page. Click there and FolderSync will be installed. At any other browser there should be a Download-button, click there and choose the newest version to download a xpi file. Simply drag'n'drop the xpi to the Songbird main window.
After the installation you have to restart Songbird.
Now you can open FolderSync's pane by showing the DisplayPane and clicking at the little symbol in the titlebar of the pane and a menu will appear wich will let you choose an Pane. FolderSync registers a Pane named "FolderSync".
!Information: At the first Start you will see a message to tell you how FolderSync syncs. In en-US are some misstakes, thanks to longbow, they will be removed in 0.4
In this Pane you can see currently: (0.3 Versions)
A box in wich are all Playlists you have, on the right a box in wich are all Folders you saved (at the beginning nothing), seperated by two buttons (in 0.4 there will be 3 buttons) "+" and "-". Under the boxes there is a text-area and on the right two buttons, "Browse..." and "Start Sync". There is also a button labeled with "Refresh".
How to sync:
-> Pick one ore more Playlists to sync to a folder
-> Choose a Folder by editing the text-area or clicking at "Browse"
-> Click "Start Sync"
If you want to save the folder and the playlist, click at the "+" button. You can now select it from the box (simply click there).
If something goes wrong or you have additional questions, simply ask!
@mills:
Sorry, was editing the text while you answered, so I didn't see that you got it.
Have fun anyway!
Just wanted to support luffedellies mentioning about creating a folder artist/albumName... I know you already noted that for a future release. Just wanted to say that this would be a feature which could convince a lot of rockbox users to use Songbird as their mediaplayer of choice... as i am ;-) (Damn, i am already using SOngbird >;-)
Great work. I think this is a great project. I tried it and it works great except I can't use it yet because it does not move the actual play list over. Creating play lists on my blackberry is tedious. So I will be on the watch out for when that is added. Once it is... I won't even have to wait for blackberry mtp support. Even though that would be welcome. This project is also useful for those new fangled car stereos that play files off of usb memory sticks.
Thanks for your contribution to the community! Songbird has huge potential and developers like yourself bring it to life.
@hcamelion:
Writing playlists will come in future realeases (see "Will come in future releases" in the Description). It may only take some time...
I just installed FolderSync with the latest stable version of Songbird (1.1.2, build 1042) for Mac Intel w/ Leopard (10.5.7) and it works like a charm with my usb key. I'll test it later tonight with my mp3 players.
@profbib:
Nice to hear that a mac work :)
Mac is the only system I can't test, so thanks for posting!
Great work! I absolutely LOVE this extension.
I would only suggest that in future releases the destination folder be checked for existing tracks, so that a specific track isn't deleted and then re-written. This would make syncing so much faster than it is currently.
Thanks! And keep up the good work! :)
@danh32:
there should be no re-write of files. I used the copy-method that fails, if the file exist and ignore the exception. after that all not-needed files are deleted.
Version 1 is out!
@all:
Now you can write m3u-Playlists and auto-format filenames and auto-create folders.
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg
could you please update your extension for Songbird 1.2? Thanks a lot :)
I've been looking everywhere for something like this, however, I need the exact opposite. I would like to see a playlist get updated by the changes/additions I make to a folder. How hard would this be?
the 1.0.0.2 version don't work on my pc. This version delete all in the folder that I want to sync and then don't sync nothing else.
I have to reinstall 1.0.0.1 that work.
I have vista 32 bit if it would help...
How can I add the number of track in the "autoformat filenames and path" option?
This addon is an excellent addition to songbird! It works for me on the ubuntu 9.04, songbird 1.1.2 .
I will say the interface could be cleaned up a bit, as in it's slightly awkward.. but functional. Also, there is a minor spelling mistake in the preferences.
And finally, the missing killer feature.. Support for writing Track numbers and ideally the Year tag. I use rockbox without the database, and so it just reads directories.. Without track numbers, my albums play out of order.
And finally, it would be neat if this addon would create a 'Device' entry on the left songbird panel (playlist tree) like the ipod device addon does.. It would be a bit more elegant and not take up another panel.
Besides that, great job and thank you so much for bringing this essential functionality to a promising new player!
After reading through the comments (thanks rsjtdrjgfuzkfg) I finally got the sync pane up. I too had to toggle between the mashUp and FolderSync pane.
Unfortunately, I either don't understand the point of this addon, or I'm missing something.
When I sync a playlist to a folder, only the playlist file is synced to the new folder. In other words I get a playlist.m3u file in the destination, but the addon does not sync the media files as well.
I cannot figure out what else I can set/change or configure to make it work?
Rob
Does't works. I have selected a playlist and a folder and an error occurs: "No playlists selected. Abort."
Ubuntu 9.04
Songbird 1.1.2, Build 1042 (20090331141709)
Just a note to any Vista users, you need to run Songbird with admin privileges to get it to sync. Caught me out at first and I was wondering what was going wrong (It just sits there doing nothing, or 'finishes' in about a second with nothing synced).
Anyway, thanks to the creator, I've been looking for a way to sync my mp3 player with songbird for a while.
@klint:
Very soon!
@ada:
If the folder is in the watch folder this feature is part of the songbird core:
make a new intelligent playlist and add a line:
File location - start with - file://<your>
@abo:
I also use Ubuntu and 1.1.2 Build 1024 and it works. Maybe more information?
@Archaos:
Thanks for vista-hint! (Look at the Description)
@excitatory:
>And finally, it would be neat if this addon would create a 'Device' entry on the left songbird panel (playlist tree) like the ipod device addon does.. It would be a bit more elegant and not take up another panel.
This is only possible if POTI unlocks the wiki-pages about how to create a device.
The tracknumbers will come!
@klint:
There is no official 1.2 up to now. If it is released, the Add-On will be updated.
@excitatory,matiascaceres:
Look at the new version: %tracknumber% is available!
I'm having trouble getting foldersync 1.0.1.1 to work properly with songbird 1.1.2. All it does is delete the files in the sync-to folder but does not write any of the files from my selected playlist to my sync-to folder. It does this in Windows XP SP3 and Ubuntu Jaunty. Clearly I am doing something catastrophically wrong; any suggestions?
Doesn't seem to be working for me either. I'm running Mac OS X 10.5.6. It just deleted all the files on my mp3 player. When I click sync the progress bar quickly flashes, but no files are transferred to the device. Would be a very useful add-on though if we can get it working. Good Luck!
Following Puka, I tried using foldersync 1.0.0.1; and it works fantastically for me with Songbird 1.1.2 on both XP and Jaunty! Thanks for the wonderful add on, this is exactly what I needed. Carrying folders over with the sync would be a help for me, because compilation albums (that dont have track numbers in front of names) don't play nice with their original album counterparts (that also don't have track numbers in front of their names) and foldersync ends up picking one version and leaving the other out.
It's mostly working for me, it syncs about 95% of my tracks, but then throws a Javascript error:
Error while parsing the following files: 02 are you gonna be my girl.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 15 are you gonna be my girl (acoustic version).mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 16 bruises (demo).mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 09 cold hard bitch.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 19 cold hard bitch (live).mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 10 come around again.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 08 get me outta here.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 05 get what you need.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 17 hey kids (non-album track).mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 01 last chance lyric.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 12 lazy gun.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 04 look what you've done.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 21 look what you've done (live).mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 06 move on.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 18 move on (live).mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 07 radio song.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 03 rollover dj.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 14 sgt. major.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 11 take it or leave it.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 13 timothy.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] 20 you don't look the same (demo).mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] Flock: The Best of the Mutton Birds 07 anchor me.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] Flock: The Best of the Mutton Birds 15 as close as this.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] Flock: The Best of the Mutton Birds 13 come around.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] Flock: The Best of the Mutton Birds 01 dominion road.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 586" data: no] Flock: The Best of the Mutton Birds 10 (don't fear) the reaper.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync
Despite the NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND the files do exist, Songbird has no trouble playing them from the source playlist.
@all:
Currently the Add-On does not check Tags for not-supported Characters in the file System. If there are tags with not supported characters, the file won't be written in scheme-mode. If a folder can't be written the folder won't be found. Songbird names all things in a file-system files. I'm working on a bugfix (Version 1.1.0.0)
For example, the following characters will fail in Windows:
\:<?>*|"
The people out there, where nothing except deleting works, do you have only such tags?
The bugfix is out!
Bug fix seems to have solved the problem for me. When I synched this time, all the files were copied. Thanks a bunch, I can go back to ignoring WMP again.
Upgraded from 1.0.0.1 to 1.1.0.0 this morning (Songbird 1.1.2) and a test file synced properly on XP. Then, as a little experiment, I went into Jaunty, uninstalled 1.0.0.1 and did a fresh 1.1.0.0 install (with proper restarts) and the "nothing except deleting" happened again. @rsjtdrjgfuzkfg thanks for working so hard on this add on. BTW, for anyone wondering, folders do sync with their files when the "Auto-Format filenames and path" box is "checked" in tools>Add-ons>Foldersync>Prefrences
The bugfix cleared up most of the errors, but I still got a couple left:
Error while parsing the following files: 01 shine on you crazy diamond, pts..mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 621" data: no] 05 shine on you crazy diamond, pts..mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 621" data: no] extras.jc.reyourbrains.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 621" data: no]
The first song's metadata contains ',', '.' and '-', and it's filename contains a ',' and an extra '.'. The second's metadata contains a ':', and it's filename contains extra '.''s (though others with a similar file name went through fine).
I have to commend your work ethic and commitment to your addon rsjtdrjgfuzkfg. Bug fixes in a day or less are unheard of with addons, great work.
Wait a sec, I just ran it again and no errors. Wonder why it bugged out the first time I ran it.
Well, disregard my previous comment, it works perfectly.
Great work rsjtdrjgfuzkfg! :)
@miked:
I will check back. Cause I didn't test the not-autoFormat-Mode since 1.0.0.0 there could be a mistake.
Thanks for your comments!
@all:
New known bug: (thanks to miked)
Only deleting when the Option "Auto-Format filenames and path" is not checked (default)
I'm working on a bugfix (Version 1.2.0.0).
The bugfix is out.
All people with the only-delete problem, please try 1.2.0.0 and post if it works!
Seems very nice, any chance of having it working with 1.2b1 ?
@Manusnake:
Cause I don't use 1.2b1 I can't test it.
If you want to try it:
Download the xpi (for example here v1.2.0.0) and change in it with an archive program (for example 7zip) the file install.rdf:
Find the following:
<em:targetapplication>
<description>
<em:id>songbird@songbirdnest.com</em:id>
<em:minversion>1.1.1</em:minversion>
<em:maxversion>1.2.0a</em:maxversion>
</description>
</em:targetapplication>
and change it to (bold=changes)
<em:targetapplication>
<description>
<em:id>songbird@songbirdnest.com</em:id>
<em:minversion>1.1.1</em:minversion>
<em:maxversion>1.2</em:maxversion>
</description>
</em:targetapplication>
So the Add-On will be accepted from Songbirds up to Version 1.2.
Now you install the xpi and hope that it works.
Good luck! (Hope you don't need it) ;)
Well, I'm not in a hurry, I'll wait until it works (1.2 final ships in less than two weeks anyways).
I can't seem to sync to my NTFS hard drive from my mac. I think that this addon may net be playing nice with Mac Fuse. The error I recieve is similar to Archeros. This may be why he cannot play these files. I will see if I can do some debugging and post what I find here.
@all SB1.2 people:
The version bump is out!
Thanks to GeekShadow!
uh... this is one confusing plugin. how do I get it to show up? I don't have a "foldersync" pane showing up anywhere.
I've followed the instructions, and still nothing. What?
I mean, what do you mean in the instructions by "show display pane" - you mean the pane on the right, where display panes like birdtune and others go? If that's the case, then this plugin doesn't make a pane in there called "foldersync". I can't find anything having to do with foldersync, actually, except in the add ons, which does me no good at all. Is this incompatible with 1.1.2 or something?
@brianbotkiller:
Did you use this button to open the pane?
There are 3 panels in Songbird:
hey rsjtdrjgfuzkfg,
i've been watching this extension for some time right now and love the developpment,
i use it to sync my usb-drive for using it in the car :).
Unfortunately there are 2 options missing for me,
the first one seems to be rather easy. If I use the %tracknumber% variable in the filename,
is uses 1 for the first song, if you have more than 10 songs, the ordner will be destroyed because there will be song:
1)
11)
12)
2)
that's why it would be good if there would be an option to add a zero (0) :P in front of the tracknumbers 1 to 9.
The second option I would love is that I don't really want to sync my usb-drive,
I would prefer just updating it, that means collecting all !new! songs / albums in one playlist and then copying them onto the usbdrive but unfortunately as you mention in your descritiption all others song will be deleted.
Therefore an option to avoid deleting old songs would be awesome, but I'm not sure how hard it would be to implement this option
Finished,
thanks for your endurance :P
killer poster
@killerposter:
Both options are nice ideas, added them at the Features section.
Thanks!
@killerposter:
Disable deleting is implemented (v1.3.0.0)
oh hi,
thx for the new version, works perfectly :)
since my last post I had another great idea :P,
what about different sync-profiles? that means having a dropdownlist in the addonconfiguration where you can define and add new sync-rules, this would be useful if you want to manage several usb devices but want to have a different order (or name system)
Then you can choose your created profiles in the bottom pane to have a quick access to those different options.
And I noticed one bug, it always happens for me that dots "." in the filename will be changed to "_" if i use the renaming system, it would be nice if you could fix this
I hope you understand my english I'm from germany :-)
I don't think I have a good concept of what this add-on is supposed to do. Instead of syncing the folder I asked it to, the add-on deleted ALL of my music (but not to, say, the recycle bin - the songs are just gone, lost). I can't say I'm pleased.
So, my question is - when sync deletes files, what does it do with them (what command does it give windows).
@killerposter:
The replacing of dots "." with "_" is not a bug. Windows (and maybe other OS too) have some troubles with "." in a file-name. So the "." (and other non- or not really supported characters) will be replaced by an "_".
@gsgraham:
To your question: The Add-On uses the delete-method of platform-independent files. This is under windows an real deleting.
I don't know what you have done, the Add-On does the following:
First read the given folder and all sub-folders.
Second copy all new Files (data source is the selected playlist)
Third delete all files that are not part of the sync (other files, music that is not in the selected playlist and so on)
The third part can be disabled in the options.
What folder did you enter?
If you entered the folder for example of a MP3-Player, you should try a second sync. It could be that for example there is a song named temp.mp3 and the song you want to sync is named TEMP.mp3 (Up case). Then the sync of TEMP.mp3 to temp.mp3 will fail in windows. In the third step the file with the "bad" filename will be deleted. Now a second sync copies the TEMP.mp3.
Okay - I recovered the files with a restore program, and tried again with some different options, and it worked okay with the mp3 player. I'll play around with it some more, but it seems to be working well now.
I think I expected it to copy data from the device to songbird first rather than the other way around, but I'm still not sure what I did to have it try to sync other data. Thanks for the response!
The new Manual is out, you can find it here!
up to now only in german, englisch will be added very soon. If somebody want to translate it into other languages, he can contact me, see the FolderSync homepage for the eMail Adress)
My PSP & I would like to thank you for developing this Add-On! This is one of those things that make an app truly fitted to the user. One possible suggestion for future release, is there a way to have it in the right panel? I mean it can stay in the bottom but if you wanted to via preferences change it over to the right*1.
I mean I haven't a thing against it being on the bottom panel but I tend to almost hit the buttons on the bottom when scrolling through a page, having it on the right side would remedy this a little also since the panel is thinner I can see more of the web page than if it's cut off from the bottom.
Well anyway again I would like to thank you for this little Add-on it really made my day!
*1 Well I say preferences but I could mean panel menu, eh you get what I mean right?
@Darksidehearts:
If the user wants it....
... will see what i can do for the right pane, added to the will-come section. But some other tasks have priority (such as %playlist% or the leading zeros)
this add on works not for me (or didn't I understand what it shoud do?). I'm using the german version.
I created a playlist ("sync") and added 3 songs. Then I selected a directory (not a root directory) on my harddrive on my vista pc.
Then I press "Beginne Sync".
- If I enable the option, that files are deleted in the target dir, even the target dir is deleted.
- if I enable the option to create m3u playlists, a file "sync.m3u" is created in the target dir.
But I expect that the sound files which are referenced in the playlist are created in my target dir. This is not the case. What do I do wrong ?
@omo:
Do you use the current Version (1.3.0.0)?
If yes, what options do you use? ("Dateinamenschema verwenden"?)
The files should be copied. Do you get messages in the "Fehlerkonsole" (get it via "Extras|Fehlerkonsole")?
What Songbird Version do you use?
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg:
- yes, i am using the current version 1.3.0.0 (installed yesterday)
- I use : %artist% - %title%, but I tried the checked and unchecked on your mentioned option, I also tried the default setting
- There aren't any messages (errors, warnings, etc) in the "Fehlerkonsole"
- I use songbird 1.2.0 (installed right now, uninstalled your add on, installed it again, same problems)
In my playlist there are 3 songs, after pressing the sync button, songbird is ready immediatelly, so it seems, that nothing is copied
@omo:
Wich OS do you use?
Windows? Linux? Mac?
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg:
I am using MS Vista.
@omo:
Did you tried opening Songbird with administrative privileges?
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg:
if you mean wheather I have admin rights -> yes my windows account has admin rights and this is the user who runs songbird
@omo:
I mean that the UAC does sometimes crazy things, Archaos reported:
Just a note to any Vista users, you need to run Songbird with admin privileges to get it to sync. Caught me out at first and I was wondering what was going wrong (It just sits there doing nothing, or 'finishes' in about a second with nothing synced).
At another Win Vista there is no problem without administrative privileges.
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg:
I tried this AddOn on a XP machine - and it works ! So it seams to be a Vista Problem.
Thanks for your support so far. I keep on looking on the admin privilleges.
Additionally I am using the mt-daap client (http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1355)
Songs added from this media source to my playlist are not synced.
Maybe you can have a look on this as well.
@omo:
As I can see it the mt-daap client creates library items that don't begin with "file://", cause these are no local files (I read through quickly, so tell me if I went wrong). I don't know how to copy a file that is not local. I think I would have to open a network stream, read it out and write the content to the new file. Mabe much later if this is the issue.... ;)
@killerposter:
The leading zeros are there!
vielen dank dafür, echt spitze und die %playlist% funktion ist auch sehr gut für mich.
prima arbeit die du da machst!
I've synced a few playlists. With less then 2400 songs it works but as I tried a playlist with 5000 songbird crashed by song 2003. I restarted songbird and tried it again but it crashed again and again.
@Key:
Can't test this cause I have no such big library. Does The crash is at the same position everytime? If so, could you please tell me your OS, SB Version and the target-filename of the song (and you should check if the track is playable in the Library).
Oh I know those all are priority items to fix first. No rush, I'm just happy to be able to sync my PSP to my Mac without having to use some app like PSPWare...not that I hate the app it's just that it only syncs iTunes music, which would be alright....if I were using that app. Your add-on makes this app a great one for those little devices we use on a daily basis, especially being able to specifically set up the sync folders to have your music and movies go where "you want them to" and not where the program is built to send them to. I've wanted something like that since 2005, so I deeply thank you for that.
@Darksidehearts:
You're welcome ;)
I didn't want to say that your idea is stupid or something like this. As you can see it is currently at the 1. position in the will-come-section... ;)
Maybe in the next weeks... I will reserve the 1.5 for that :)
I think I have a question/problem that hasn't been covered here, and it is very possible that I'm just doing something stupid.
This add-on is essentially made to be like Foobar's File Operations. That is, you are supposed to be able to take your whole library, or a chunk of your library, or any set of files, and arrange them in a directory structure automatically. Correct? Just making sure I am not trying to get something out of this that it is not designed to do.
The problem is that all my files are getting dumped in one folder, and the previous files aren't being deleted after sync. I set up my structure to be %artist%/%album%/%tracknumber%-%title%. So I get that. It's just not doing it.
Here's what I did exactly:
I checked "Library" in the "Sync playlist" box. In the "To folder" box I typed "/home/alex/Music/Library" I added that to the folder list, and I clicked "Start Sync" (Is it necessary to add to the folder list if I am just using "Start sync" and not sync all?).
Options are set up as follows:
Activate one-click syncronisation of more than one playlist, CHECKED.
Delete not need Files and Directories, UNCHECKED.
Write M3u-playlists, UNCHECKED.
Auto-format filenames and path, CHECKED
Structure:
"%artist%/%album%/%tracknumber%-%title%"
At least 2 digits in tracknumber.
I am using Songbird 1.2.0, Ubuntu 9.04, and I just got this Add-on last night, from this page, so it should be the latest version.
I'll keep experimenting and trying to figure it out, but it would be nice to have some help.
Thanks.
@AlexC:
Can you give a example filename?
Like that:
Original file: dasdsgdsfgdg.mp3
Was copied to: artist/album/test.mp3
The file names are the same as the original files.
Original file: /home/alex/Music/Sort/Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery - 01 - Airegin.mp3
Was copied to: /home/alex/Music/Library/Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery - 01 - Airegin.mp3
Wait.
/home/alex/Music/Sort/Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery/Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery - 01 - Airegin.mp3
copied to
/home/alex/Music/Library/Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery - 01 - Airegin.mp3
It's not even keeping the files in the original album folders. My "Library" folder is just a giant folder with all my files. No structure.
@AlexC:
Looks like FolderSync's Pane didn't get the preferences. Did you close and re-open the pane after changing the options? If not, try it. (The Pane reads the preferences while opening)
Hello,
Great plugin ... but :p
Seems to only work with administrator privilege. Tested on Windows XP SP 2 FR
Is there a workaround ? (different of using administrator acount :p )
@coredmp:
On WinXP SP3 GER it works without Administrative Privileges....
What kind of error do you get? Occurs the problem with every folder?
Nice, but I was expecting this add-on to right only playlists, like the export playlist add-on, but better.
Er. . .I meant write. No edit command here =(
@ahevanski:
This Addon, as you noticed, syncs the songs (and optional the playlist ad m3u) to a folder.
For better export you should post at the playlist-export-plugin.
this one is really useful,i love it
This just syncs the files, right? It doesn't sync play counts and stuff like that? Wish it did that too. That's my holy grail. syncing and updating smart playlists on ums player (Sansa e260 with Rockbox on mac).
Also, if you've never looked at Synctunes for the Mac. You might want to. I think it was created with applescript. The guy stopped developing it, but it has some features that would be good in this plug-in. Guy might also let you see his code.
Hi,
FolderSync works well for me to sync all the stuff but using the created m3u files is not working with my Odys Player.
You start every line in the m3u file with ./
so the line looks as followed:
./xxxxxx/xxxxx/xxxxx.mp3
When i change all the / to \ and delete the leading ./ it works.
I've checked the format of m3u files comparing with Media Monkey (because it worked there) to figure it out.
is there a way to configure it?
@kingsinger:
Yes, FolderSync syncs only files and (optional) Playlists. For "play counts and stuff like that" you should use RatingFile.
Or could you imagine storing those information with FolderSync, do you have an idea into wich destination files and so on?
@lala:
Currently there is no way to configure that, I will implement that in later versions.
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg: What I'm really looking to do is keep a rockboxed Sansa player synced to my mac mp3 library somehow using UMS rather than MTP, which doesn't work on the Mac.
There seems to be some discussion of this in the RatingFile comments.
I have some smart playlists that are keyed on play counts, skip counts, and the last played date. I there was a way to sync this info back to Songbird from Rockbox and vice versa, that would be super cool.
I hated this add-on. I synchronized it with my main library thinking it would move all what's in it to songbird and there was no single message that told me all the other files are going to be deleted.
All my files are deleted now :@:@
@Tulip:
Use a data recovery tool (for example recuva (Windows) or Magic Rescue (Linux)) to recover your music files.
There should be a warning after you opened the pane the first time, with the following text:
You just started FolderSync the first time. This Add-On gives your the opportunity to sync songbirds's playlists and libraries to every folder you want. Sync means that new files are copied and old files and files there are no part of the sync-process are DELETED
Look in future also at the descriptions of the Add-On you download:
This Add-On will delete all non-sync-files and sub-folders in the selected folder!
In the Quick-Start Guide (part of FolderSync's manual):
Caution! If you click "Start Sync" all files belonging not to the sync process in the selected folder and sub-folders will be deleted!
Hello,
I am using FolderSync 1.4.0.0 with Songbird 1.2.0, Build 1146 on Mac OS X 10.4.11.
FolderSync does not perform any copy whenever I try to use the %tracknumber% variable for constructing file names.
I can read on the error console that function "this._tracknumdigits()" on line 248 does not exist.
So I changed the line: while (tracknumvar.length < this._tracknumdigits())
to: while (tracknumvar.length < 2)
This way the extension works well, writing the track number using 2 digits, what is enough for me considering the maximum track number of 99 for my ripped files from CDs.
Thank you for your useful extension.
Exactly what I needed to sync songs with my mobile phone... but...
1. As I realized, obvioulsy Folder Sync only compares the file NAMES in source and destination.
So if the file NAME didn't change but the file itself (e. g. when the song "only" has been cut or lyrics have been added to the song...) and so "only" the file DATE changed, no new synchronisation takes place :-((
2. Sometimes my saved synchronisations (via "+ button") do EITHER not appear at all OR show wrong combinations of source-playlist and destination-folder :-((
@charlessp:
I will check that.
@MrSpock:
to 1.: Also checking Date... Nice idea.
to 2.: Can you give a example?
@charlessp:
Fixed with 1.4.0.1:
while (tracknumvar.length < this._tracknumdigits())
should be
while (tracknumvar.length < this._tracknumdigits)
I've forgotten that in the sync task _tracknumdigits is not a function.
Thanks for your quick response "rsjtdrjgfuzkfg" :-))
to 2.:
Unfortunately I am not able to reproduce this behaviour with the lost "saved syncs".
Sometimes they are all gone from the list on the right side of FolderSync.
Sometimes they are still there, but with wrong combinations of source and destinations.
Maybe it has something to do with the update of the "German Language Pack"; I remember having this problem again after its last update (but then of course wouldn't be a bug of FolderSync itself).
PS: I am using Win Vista 32 Home Premium
@MrSpock:
I use the German Language Pack too, and it works without problems...
You could check when opened the pane and noticed the problem, without closing the pane, in about:config the value "extensions.FolderSync.selections".
There are the paths and selections saved, so check if they are there.
Also, FolderSync doesn't recognizes Playlist by name, so If you delete a playlist and re-create it, FolderSync won't recognize it because it has another internal identifier.
@MrSpock:
The Date-Change-Detection is here :)
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg:
Thank you again. Synchronization is working perfectly with track numbers now.
As I want to use Songbird to upload music to different mp3 devices, the Playexport extension gives me the playlist size information missing from Songbird. But still I have a feature request for you...
The only last thing I miss is the ability to get my cover art files "folder.jpg" copied as well as the music files in their respectives folders when I call the auto-format function with FolderSync.
Do you think you could add this function so we could take the best advantage of devices reading the cover art image file from the folder path of the music file played?
@charlessp:
Covers are theoretical possible :)
Added to the will-come list.
@lala:
Now the feature is here, take a look to the preferences, tab "M3U-Format".
@all:
I'm offline for ~3 weeks
Calculate a bit delay ;)
Thanks for this add-on :) It seems to be working well for syncing my Palm Pre for now!
I would like to see the option for it to organize the music with files. As an example File Path, Artist/Album/Songs
Disregard the previous statement! I just found the setting for that and its working like a charm. Thanks again for the add-on!
Howdy. I like the sync to folder utility - thanks. I would like to use it to create a usb memory stick for my car. Here's the thing. My car, a 2008 bmw barfs on certain mp3's depending on the id3v2 tags. I've played with it and narrowed it down, but the only reliable way to ensure the car will play the mp3's is to remove all of the tags. (no problem since the car doesn't use the tags when the usb memory is above a certain size). So,
I can write a script using id3v2 to strip all of the tags from the usb memory, but then the sync will always try to re-sync the entire usb memory. (since the mod date has changed, or maybe because the file size has changed)
So, could there be an option to sync just based on the mp3 original file name (full path)?
Alternatively, could there be an option to strip the id3v2 tags from the files written to the folder?
I guess I could get another car...
I know this is pretty specific to my problem, but there must be a few folks out there with bmw's?
Thanks!
Nice addon!
It'd be good if it also let you use the album artist when choosing the sync path. I've got lots of multi artist albums that I want to keep together. They all have "Various" as their "Album Artist" and the actual artist as the "Artist".
Useful if this could be added ;)
Great Addon ! Exactly what I was missing in Songbird :-)
Just a question: Is it really intended that the file name in the destination directory only consists of lower case letters ?? Or did I find a bug ?
Example:
Source: "Paul Van Dyk - Words (For Love).mp3"
Destination: "paul van dyk - words (for love).mp3"
So.... I'm online again!
@korny:
As a quick solution: Use (up to an option for that) the Version 1.4.0.1, there is only the Expert mode missing, the detection of changing files (btw: FolderSync looks at the LastChanged-Dates) wasn't implemented at that time.
@Vaer:
Added to the will-come.
@MrX:
Songbird (under Windows) saves filenames in the internal database as lower-case. Because I use the internal database to create the filenames if the user don'T want automatically generated filenames, the files will be lower-case.
If you normed all filenames (or if you want so) you could use "%artist% - %title%" as auto-format.
I just loaded this and tried to sync my folders. I must have done this wrong because IT DELETED ALL MY MUSIC. BE VERY CAREFUL!!!!!
@joeskibba:
Try a recovery program to get the files back.
This Add-On manages (so at the first time deletes) the destination folder and all (!) sub-folders. It doesn't touch the source folder. Maybe you set a wrong destination?
More information how-to use FolderSync you can get in the Manual.
For you the most interesting part could be Chapter 2: Quick Start Guide.
Great Add-on! Its what i was looking for!!!!
Only a little hint.. could you add %year% tag for auto-format? It would be very useful in order to sort album folders.
@zonzo:
Added to the will come...
@Vaer,zonzo:
The tags %albumartist% and %year% are implemented now ;)
@korny:
In the preferences you can now also disable the overwriting of changed files.
Ultrafast!!!! Amazing!!!! :)
Have had foldersync for a while now with very few poblems,has recently stopped working giving java script error on any folder I try.Just updated to latest version,still the sameError while parsing the following files: 2-01 rainbow country.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 2-02 uptown top ranking.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 2-03 i want to wake up with you.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 2-04 money in my pocket.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 2-05 girlie girlie.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 2-06 o.k. fred.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 2-07 lately.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 2-08 ganster gal.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 2-09 young, gifted & black.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 2-10 f.p. the greatest.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 2-11 every little thing she does is.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 2-12 hot-hot-hot.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 01 you can get it if you really want.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 02 wonderful world, wonderful people.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 03 54-46 that's my number.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 04 return of django.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 05 ain't no sunshine.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 06 bad da.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 07 fugitive dub.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 08 cleo's back (take 2).m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 09 scattered lights.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 10 warlock.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 11 red is danger (take 1).m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 12 ska-ra-van.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no] 13 el cid.m4a[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 636" data: no]
@danno4114:
Is enough free space on the device? Is the folder write-protected?
Looks like FolderSync can't copy the listed files.
I've got a very primitive MP3. No m3u support. Old school. It sorts in alpha order, so play lists don't play in the correct order. It would be great if the auto-format file names preference had an option to put a number before each track that gets synced corresponding to the tracks number in the play list.
So tracks could be named like this: "01_TrackName_AlbumName", "02_TrackName_AlbumName", etc.
Right now, the %tracknumber% attribute just gives you the track's number on the album it comes from (at least on my system).
That may well be useful for some people, but for the application I'm talking about, another variable as described above would be more useful.
Does that make sense?
@kingsinger:
The problem is that I havn't found - up to now - a way to get the playlist order. The m3u's are sorted like songbird sends the data to FolderSync, from oldest to newest added.
Those numbers aren't really helpful, I think.
If you (or sb else) knows a way to get the right order, please post here!
Have you ever looked at synctunes, which is an applescript based solution developed to do something similar to your solution in iTunes. I think it could do what I'm asking. I know there are a lot of differences both between iTunes and Songbird and between javascript and applescript, but maybe it might reveal something at a conceptual level.
SB doesn't output an m3u file that's in the same order as the playlist it represents? That just doesn't really make much sense to me. What use is an m3u file if it doesn't represent the sequence of songs that you have created within SB? I thought that was the point of an m3u file. It has been in every other application I've ever used that has m3u functionality.
Let's assume the m3u is in a spreadsheet and each row represents an entry in the m3u list. The row number should represent the song's number in the sequence of the play list. Couldn't that number be added to the beginning of the file name of each song in the list, so that it also sorts alphabetically in the same order?
Or am I missing something?
I just checked this out. The m3u that is output from Foldersync has the songs sorted in the same order as the SB play list, not from oldest to newest added. I'm guessing the m3u takes whatever sort order you happen to have applied to the playlist at the time the sync is engaged. So if you have it sorted by the date the song was added to the library, then the songs will be ordered in the m3u in that order.
Or am I completely confused about this?
See I know I can bring a batch of mp3s into a tag editor like mp3 book editor, based on an m3u and then change the file name so there is a number in front of each filename, which corresponds to the file's order in the play list. But it would be great if this could happen as an automated part of the sync.
First I want to say hello to all and also apologize for my English. I'm from Poland
BUG REPORT:
I have number of playlists containing a lot of mp3's from different countries and I use FolderSync to sync them with my mp3 player. I am using feature to rename files while copying and generate m3u playlist. The error occurs when ID3 tags contains some non-latin characters (like polish chars "ż, ć, ń, ą etc." or norwegian "ø", sometimes also spanish chars) - renaming script works well, but in m3u file instead of those chars script put random non-letter chars, making file inaccessible from playlist.
In my opinion, issue is connected with handling different charsets by script generating m3u files.
@Gumis91:
You can enter the characters that are not supported by the file system in the expert options.
Go to Tools|Addons and search FolderSync, click its Options-Button and edit in the expert mode panel the file system compatibility line
/#\#:#*#?#>#<#|#"#.
Add
#<character>
for each of the characters that are not supported.
So they will be replaced with _.
This should solve your problem, isn't it?
@Gumis91:
Sry, I forgot one thing: If you have created such a list of characters, it would be great if you could post it here, so I can add it to the default value for new FolderSync users.
Hello
@danno4114 and @rsjtdrjgfuzkfg:
I also had the very long error list when I do not clean my player before performing the transfer. The problem seems to be that not enough room is made before new my files are copied to destination. So replacing 245Mo of music with another 240Mo of music on my 249Mo player leads to a problem. Is FolderSync trying to erase all unwanted older files before transferring the new ones?
@charlessp:
FolderSync first copies the new files, after that it deletes the old files. Maybe there will be an option in some time to delete first...
Hi, I don't know why, but the "at least 2 digits" for the track field doesn't work for me. When I sync, I get 1, 2, 3, etc. instead of 01, 02, 03. I'm using Songbird 1.2 under Vista 64.
Anyway, thanks for the plugin! It's really great for sorting my library. :D
@slnkez, all:
New known Bug: Leading zeros in %tracknumber% missing
@slnkez, all:
Bug "Leading zeros in %tracknumber% missing" succesfully fixed. ;)
@slnkez:
Thanks for your bug report! :)
love the addon!
however, i get a nasty popup at the end..and 40 of my songs have not copied, even though there is plenty of space left..
Error while parsing the following files: Various Artists-Balance 014-08-Black Roseradarmother's Dance [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)..
The file exists, so could this be a character problem?
@thermopyl:
Try the following:
Check if the source file exists,
Check if you can create a file with the name of the file you want to sync (or the tags if you use auto-format).
Maybe there is a length problem (filesystem doesn't support more than x characters in filename)?
Hi
Source file exists and the file can be created ok as Mediamonkey syncs the file (and all the others) ok.
I wondered whether the ' was causing the problem but i have a #' entry in my advanced settings - are these being picked up ok in this version?
@thermophyl:
They should ;)
You could try adding a ' to...
1. a file on the target device
2. a working song (via tag)
don't know what's going wrong with the files you listed...
maybe the error messages should give addidional information...
i hate this addon after it removed all my downloads for this past year, maybe even longer, there is no way to restore this, or is there a default folder they got moved to?
if not....
a real pain in the ass, i have to download over 100 albums again, thanks for not warning about it
what i was going to do:
sync my playlist with the folders in question, and then sync the playlist with my ipod
so, unless there is a way to recover all songs from my ipod, i will never get to hear them again
but if i can get them from my ipod, i may hear them, since most of my library was on it, 89 gb's of music
mail me if you know how i can recover the files from my ipod, with id3 tags, names, etc included aswell
fortunately, it looks like i found a way to rescue my ipod files, but still, it hurts like hell
Serathas:
To recover the files use an undelete tool (for example Magic Rescue (linux) or Recuva (win))
No warning? After installing, didn't you get a information how FolderSync works like that (or, if your use a localized songbird that is supported by FolderSync, a similar hint in the selected language):
You just started FolderSync the first time. This Add-On gives your the opportunity to sync songbirds's playlists and libraries to every folder you want. Sync means that new files are copied and old files and files there are no part of the sync-process are DELETED.
If you don't want to sync but to copy new songs, you should disable the Preference
Delete not needed Files and Directories
in the Options Dialog. For more information, visit FolderSync's Manual (chapter 4.2.1).
rsjtdrjgfuzkf You can enter the characters that are not supported by the file system in the expert options. Go to Tools|Addons and search FolderSync, click its Options-Button and edit in the expert mode panel the file system compatibility line /#\#:#*#?#>#<#|#"#. Add #<character> for each of the characters that are not supported. So they will be replaced with _. This should solve your problem, isn't it? </blockquote> I activated FileSystem Compatibility mode with following parameters: /#\#:#*#?#>#<#|#"#ę#ó#ą#ś#ł#ż#ź#ć#ń#. and still not working - FolderSync just IGNORES characters I added however build-in ones works very well. Any idea?
If this will be helpful - script which generate playlists saves m3u files in ANSI codepage.
I have strong feeling that this is a case. I wonder if there is a lot of work to switch it into Unicode.
@Gumis91:
Ugh, I've tested it now and must say...
@all:
New known bug: Expert-Mode-Character Replacement fails with some characters
@Gumis91,all:
Bug: Expert-Mode-Character Replacement fails with some characters should be fixed in 1.4.4.3 ;)
I checked that and m3u file is saved in ANSI West-European codepage, which causes errors in representing names coded in different codepage (like ANSI East-European like mine).
I read a bit about Unicode and it seems that this codepage covers most if not all languages commonly used with theirs special characters.
Personally I think that implementing Unicode support into your plugin will solve issue I posted above and greatly extend usability of your plugin.
If you not keen to do that for some reason, I am happy to help (I'm IT student) and implement that feature =)
Chris
Hi,
I'm really enthusiast of this plug-in... However this morning I came into a problem it had never happened before. I was used to sync my playlist without issues now I receive a javascript pop-up: "Internal Error. Please close and re-open FolderSync's pane".
What has happened?
I'me using last songbird version 1.2.0 and FolderSync 1.4.4.4...
Hi,
just to be more precise... it does not happen with all the playlist, but as far has it seems only with certain playlists containing songs of a particular genre... I don't to know if it can help.
How can I do to see what's happening (debug, verbose output, etc.)?
Just to give you some more info... when I select those particulare playlists and press "start sync" the progress bar stays freezed and the progress % is "NaN%".
I use Ubuntu 9.04...
Thanks for your help.
@petro73:
Could you look at the Error Console?
Hi,
thanks for your reply... the only entry I find (after cleaning the error console and running folder sync) is:
Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [sbILibraryImporter.import]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: file:///home/lamarcan/local/src/Songbird/components/sbLibraryImporterManager.js :: sbLibraryImporterManager_autoImportWithWindow :: line 669" data: no]
Source File: file:///home/lamarcan/local/src/Songbird/components/sbLibraryImporterManager.js
Line: 669
Don't know if it is related!
Hi,
Nice addon, works very well with my usb however I can't get it to work with my MP4. I have a Creative Zen and when I go to browse, my device doesn't appear under computer where it should be. I use vista. Might just be doing something stupid but I can't seem to find away around this problem.
@petro73:
No this isn't related :(
I've no idea. I have to check back the code, but I've not much time currently, so please stay patient.
@Nasheeke:
Are you able to find in in the Windows Explorer? Does it has a drive letter (such as D: or E:)?
If not, FolderSync can't access the Device, cause it is not in MSC (Mass-Storage-Class) Mode. Maybe you can change this (see the player's manual and the internet).
If it has a drive letter, you can enter it manually in the textbox (<letter>:/Folder1/Folder2)
Does that solve your problem?
Finally a good player who can sync with the psp....awesome!!!!!
Did you ever implement a feature for copying "folder.jpg" files as well? It would be good.
For the Sansa Fuze, and maybe other devices, these files are needed for the menus.
For some silly reason they don't use the jpg embedded in the music files.
It's great you give a warning about file deletion but the English is incorrect (and confusing).
Sync means that new files are copied and old files and files there are no part of the sync-process are DELETED.
Should read,
Sync means that new files are copied and old files, and files that are not part of the sync-process, are DELETED.
I've tried your add-on briefly and I think it's great that you made it. At this time it seems to be the only way that Linux users can get any device management with Songbird. That's a great service to the community.
I'd like to add a few notes on what would help me. I realize that you must get a lot of requests for this and that, and it must be hard to accommodate them all.
1. For the "folder.jpg" file copying it may be hard to decide how or when to do it. I think there is a possible unique image for each directory so anytime a directory is created maybe check the source one and copy any "folder.jpg" present.
2. I don't really like creating the directory structure on the fly from the tags. I already have all my files organized and would prefer just copying the folder tree "as is" across. However, since that would be a lot of changes to how this works what _I_ would really need to make this work for me is the ability to have a %cd% number variable. This is because much of my music is multi-disk classical and opera stuff. So when I sync an album that contains 3 CDs I need a variable for the cd number, otherwise all the tracks get mixed together into one folder, and therefore are out of order (eg. 01 ..., 01 ..., 01 ..., 02 ... etc).
3. It would be super cool if this add-on could work with the Media-Flow add-on one so that you can drag an album cover onto the playlist. Not sure how easy that is but it was the first thing I wanted to do and I found I had to drag albums from the album list instead. I pretty much always do things album by album. (It's too bad the playlist can't just show albums listed instead of all the songs)
4. Lastly, my device (sansa fuze) supports microSD so I have more than one path on the device. Currently you can create a playlist for each path but you have to be careful to choose which playlist syncs to which path. It would very nice if each playlist had an associated folder path. So when you choose a playlist it enables a remembered target path. And maybe if you choose more than one playlist they each know which folder they sync to. Maybe this is too difficult? As is, a user has to remember each one and can easily get mixed up and screw up the syncing process.
Just ideas I hope you can consider. This is already a very useful add-on, and you seem to be very responsive to new ideas, so I hope you may think about these ones. Or at least the %cd% variable should be pretty easy.
@ChrisSavery:
The bad english: THANKS! Will correct that soon.
to your ideas
Thanks for the ideas, if I understood something wrong or my english is that incorrect that you don't understand it, feel free to contact me again! ;)
Thanks for your very quick reply.
I haven't looked into the developer info but they do expose "disc number" as a column in the library viewer so I would hope it's there in the API, and hence just another field to retrieve. All my files have the disc number tag set otherwise multi-cd sets have track numbers that don't match the original discs, and they sort in the wrong order when listed.
I understand the changes for playlist->folder may be more than could be expected. I think it would be an alternate way of working. For me, I don't need to sync a playlist with multiple folders. But each time I plug in my music player I need to sync the playlist named "Fuze" with folder path /media/fuze/MUSIC, and playlist named Fuze3 with /media/fuze3/MUSIC. So right now I have to select the playlist and then the correct folder, make sure no others are selected and hit sync. And then repeat for the other one too, making sure to unselect the ones finished and then select the next set. Having a one click sync for me would mean syncing a set of playlists with a 1->1 mapping of folders. Although it could be 1->Many as well, my idea would be that you can set that default config but also change it manually if you need. I think right now you can select 1+ playlists and they will sync to 1+ folders, with a copy made to each folder. Or maybe I'm wrong. But more and more music players will be coming out with memory expansion slots meaning that multiple paths exist for each device, and you wouldn't want multiple copies of the same files on one device. I can see this would be a re-thinking of how the interface works and not a quick add-on change. Although an option to auto-match playlist name to folder name may be an option that would decide which folders "check" when a playlist is "checked". I have 4 microSD cards so thats 4 possible folder paths, and 4 different playlists to sync manually. I haven't really gone down this road yet but I'm just thinking of how much check/unchecks I'd have to do.
Regarding MediaFlow - it probably is something for that add-on. Even if not drag+drop, it would be nice if it had a right-click menu item to "add to playlist". Maybe I will suggest it there as it could be useful even if not for this purpose.
Thanks!
@ChrisSavery:
I'm currently working at 1.5 (will come in some minutes/houres), and the disc number (and the disc number count, you didn't mentioned it but i think it will be useful as well) is already implemented, but I will upload it with the other 1.5 changes. So please stay (only some minutes/houres) patient ;)
The playlist-folder thing...
Try reading the manual, the remember folder-feature can be used for that ;) If you don't understand the manual-english, I can try to explain it here (and you could set it into correct english?!)
Manual, Chapter 3: Remember Folders
1.5 will be here.soon. :)
Actually, now that I've tied using this it has given a few problems. When I tried the "one button" sync it kept putting up a message saying "No playlist selected". But I definitely had a playlist selected (checkmarked, right?). Then when I tried the "Start Sync" button it kept giving me a message saying "Folder path does not exist". It sure does. I removed it from the list with [-] button, and added it again and this time the sync started. But when it ended I got a hug window with a long list of errors... what on earth... here is the output
Error while parsing the following files: 01 - Nocturne Op. 9 n. 1 - B Flat Minor.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 642" data: no] 02 - Nocturne Op. 9 n. 2 - E Flat Major.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 642" data: no] 03 - Nocturne Op. 9 n. 3 - B Major.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 642" data: no] 04 - Nocturne Op. 15 n. 1 - F Major.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 642" data: no] 05 - Nocturne Op. 15 n. 2 - F Sharp Major.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 642" data: no] 06 - Nocturne Op. 15 n. 3 - G Minor.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 642" data: no] 07 - Nocturne Op. 27 n. 1- C Sharp Minor.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 642" data: no] 08 - Nocturne Op. 27 n. 2 - D Flat Major.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 642" data: no] 09 - Nocturne Op. 32 n. 1 - B Major.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 642" data: no] 10 - Nocturne Op. 32 n. 2 - A Flat Major.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 642" data: no] 11 - Nocturne Op. 37 n. 1 - G Minor.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 642" data: no] 12 - Nocturne Op. 37 n. 2 - G Major.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 642" data: no] 13 - Nocturne Op. 48 n. 1 - C Minor.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 642" data: no] 14 - Nocturne Op. 48 n. 2 - F Sharp Minor.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 642" data: no] 01 - Nocturne Op. 55 n. 1 - F Minor.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 642" data: no] 02 - Nocturne Op. 55 n. 2 - E Flat Major.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 642" data: no] 03 - Nocturne Op. 62 n. 1 - B Major.mp3[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)
Have no idea why this doesn't work. It reached 100% in the progress bar but now I checked and only about half the files are copied. I think it aborted when it got to the files in the error output above. I have about a dozen jazz albums in the playlist that aren't there. Hmmm. Any idea what's going on here?
You know. I think maybe this filled my device and then ran out of space. Is that possible? Is it copying and then deleting rather than checking the list and removing before copying? If so then you will always have to have free space matching the extra files not in your playlist, right? If so, that's seems like a bad limitation to me. I don't usually keep my devices half full...
Ah, just got your reply. I didn't see it before posting. Thanks for update. I will try it out and also have a read in the manual. I'm just running the sync again to see how it goes. It sure is taking a long time. Is it going to copy all these files again? They haven't changed so shouldn't it just check them and skip over? Not sure about this.
Ok. Well, it just copied everything again and again had errors on the same files above and didn't copy that folder.
Is this caused by the "." (periods) in the names? This is very common for classical music as there are often abbreviations for Opus and Movement Number etc. It will be a real problem if it can't handle the periods. I sure have a lot of them.
Also I was thinking about the cd number thing. Not having the number will make a mess of the files but I think the player uses the tags for actual playing order. Haven't tried it yet but if true then it may not matter much as I don't usually need to access the music by filename.
I've sort of figured this out now. I read the section of the manual you suggested. I thought the +/- buttons added folders to the list but it seems it adds the pairing of folder and playlist. Except this isn't what I see happening so I'm very confused by the interface here. After I choose a playlist and browse to a folder I click [+] to add it. That's ok. And I do it again for the next playlist and folder pair. But then when I select the first folder it marks both folders and changes the playlist to the other one. So now both folders get sync'd to the first playlist. I've tried to see how it remembers and it really doesn't appear to remember anything. It just checks whatever folder you click and you seem to get a random choice of playlist depending on what was last selected or maybe not selected. Or something. Well, it's working sort of, but I find it clumsy (sorry to say, because love the idea, and it does sound like it should do what I want).
I found out what happened with the file error above. It seems that album had been moved but never updated in Songbird. So that was my fault and I've fixed it. (If you have admin rights here please feel free to remove the clutter of the error output above - no offense taken if you remove the posts about my errors).
FolderSync seems to rewrite all the files each time you sync - I find that very slow and tiresome. Isn't there some way it could just check files and only copy ones not already present? I'll look at the manual some more and help you fix English errors. I saw a few but it's not bad. How do I send you any changes?
Anyway, Thanks! I'll be around for the next version to try it out too.
@all:
Version 1.5 is out! :)
@Darksidehearts:
right pane support is implemented in 1.5 ;)
@ChrisSavery:
the cd-number tags are implemented in 1.5 ;)
I think maybe this filled my device and then ran out of space. Is that possible?
Yes, that is possible.
With the [+] and [-] buttons, I'll look if there is a bug...
No, I've no admin rights.
FolderSync seems to rewrite all the files each time you sync - I find that very slow and tiresome.
This shouldn't be. Do you use the auto-format option? If not, as I remember it there are some problems with linux... (because of the case-specific filesystem) not sure if they are fixed...
To send changes at the manual you could send me a eMail (my username +"@abwesend.de" - or look at FolderSync's Homepage)
You should update maxVersion to 1.5.0a ;)
@GeekShadow:
Does it work with 1.5.0a?
@ChrisSavery:
I've currently no linux to test... under windows [+] and [-] works well.
Maybe [+][-] work. It could be I just don't quite get how it should work. The [+] does add a folder to the list, and the [-] does remove it. But as for remembering which folder was paired with which playlist, I don't see what I would expect. It's not that important - as long as you make sure it's correct before you sync.
It definitely seems to have re-copied files when I sync'd a second time though. For 6 GB it took quite a while. I'm using a format like "%album%/%tracknumber% - %title%". The device (Sansa Fuze) is using FAT32 but I haven't checked it for any buggy behavior.
I'm going to try the new version next. It will be a day or two before I get time on the manual but I will send you some notes.
Just tested 1.5. Sweet.
The %discnumber% works but has a problem. It does insert the disc number when there is a disc number recorded but when no number is present (common for single CDs) it inserts "null". It should insert an empty string "" so that it has no effect.
I changed my format to "%album%/%discnumber%%tracknumber% - %title%" for testing. Except for having a bunch of filenames saying "null01 - blahblah" it otherwise works great for multi-CD sets. All tracks in order, like 101, 102, 103, 201, 202 etc.
Regarding folder [+][-]. I had a bit more time to play with it. I see it is remembering but when you choose a folder it also toggles it's checked state, and the connected playlist is chosen. So for example, Play1 - Folder1, and Play2 - Folder2 are added with [+]. So the list now has Folder2 checked and Play2 checked. You click Folder1 because you want to sync that. It now checks both Folder1 and Folder2 and switches Play1 ON and Play2 OFF. So Play1 gets sync'd to both folders. Now click Folder2 and Play2 comes ON Play1 OFF, and Folder1 ON. So Play1 is sync'd to Folder1. What works is to remember to click a folder OFF before clicking another one ON. It's confusing but oh well, I can live with it being weird as long as whatever is indicated is what it actually does. It's easy enough to use like a switchboard of choices.
Have not got any further with why it re-copies. It did it again just now. And ran out of space (many OUT_OF MEMORY_ERROR) because it was renaming files with disc number. When it runs out of space I have to re-sync again to finish it off.
Hey, just because you're not busy enough here's another idea...
... it would be great if the sync panel could show how big a playlist is [xx GB]. The sizes are in the playlist column but I don't see any way to get a total on the size column.
I think there should be an option to save playlist in another directory for devices that keep the playlist and music seperate
@coolkehon:
Nice idea, hope I find a nice place for that in the ui.
@ChrisSavery:
We stay in contact via eMail what's about the problems listed above. Solutions will be posted here, of course.
The idea of the size is already listed...
Man i love this thing thanks so much it i can finoly get music on my phone thanks so much really
@all Linux users, ChrisSavery:
Bug: "rewriting under linux" should be fixed now ;)
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg: Just saw your comment on the rockbox debugging in the Rating File comments. What's the status on that. What would helping with the debugging entail? Not sure I have the skills.
Can I also add that functioning ums foldersync along with rockbox database sync could be one of the single most important/useful features ever developed for songbird.
To my knowledge, nobody else has this ability. Rockbox funs on so many platforms. If people realized that that could get really useful smart playlist functionality without an ipod on lots of other players simply by loading rockbox and using songbird and a plug-in, I think a lot of folks would do it. I hadn't gotten my sansa e250 out in a while. I loaded the newest rockbox on it. The usb mounting works great now. It'll take sdhc cards, so I could probably replace the 2gb with like an 8 or 16 gb for not that much money. If it was possible to sync the music and the play counts and ratings, well, this years old player would be quite useful.
@kingsinger:
if you want you can send me a short email, and i will send you the buggy xpi.
If you want this implemented in foldersync, could you tell me how to access rockbox-libraries via Mass-Storage? The rockbox-access for ratingfile deals with the ex/import format.
And, of course, you can a. send me a changed foldersync with rockbox-support or b. get access to the googlecode project, if you want.
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg: I would have sent you an e-mail, but I was having a hard time finding your e-mail address. Is there a link somewhere I can click. Maybe I am blind, but I could not find it. Probably right under my nose but I'm missing it.
As for RB, your question may go over my head. I thought RB had a database file in there somewhere that has all the info. Are you looking for this info?
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/DataBase
Or something else?
@kingsinger:
my email is
<my><at>abwesend<dot>de
I'm currently not interested to read through the rockbox documentation ;), the problem is: how to access the library. It would be geat if you can add Rockbox support to FolderSync, if you need help to understand the (german commented) source, write a email.
Thanks for your help!
Working on Mac OSX 10.6 and this add-on is 90% non-functional.
I am trying to synchronize some of my playlists. Here is what happens:
1) Sometimes when I press the Synch button I get an error saying that there is a javascript error in the add-on and close the window and re-open it. I generally have to re-start Songbird 3 times before I am allowed to press the Start Sync or Sync Selected buttons.
2) Sometimes when I try to sync I get a shit load of errors in a pop-up window. The window goes off screen, is not scrollable, and the text is not selectable.
3) When the sync actually works it goes in 3 stages:
- First, if I completely empty the Music folder I cam copying to, it will copy the .m3u playlists, but no music.
- I sync again and it creates the folders to hold the music in, but does not copy the music
- I sync again and it deletes everything from the Music folder I am copying to.
Generally what happens next is either the shit load of errors or the JavaScript error that prevents me from trying to sync, but many times is just a repeat of the cycle.
If I sync my entire Library then I think the sync goes okay. It will sync Movies, Audiobooks, and some music (along with just one 'Library' playlist, but none of the others that are selected). The movies and audiobooks will fill the destination folder which is why I don't want to copy the entire library.
I thought this would be a good solution to get sync music between my Mac and my Android phone but it is worthless.
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg: I wish I new enough about coding to make that contribution. But I'm mostly just an enthusiastic user. My understanding is that the rockbox database creates a file with its info in it. The data is in the format described in the wiki I linked to (I think). I think there is more info here:
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/TagcacheDBFormat
Perhaps this is what you were looking for:
The database is comprised of ten files under .rockbox, namely
* database_0.tcd (artist)
* database_1.tcd (album)
* database_2.tcd (genre)
* database_3.tcd (title)
* database_4.tcd (filename)
* database_5.tcd (composer)
* database_6.tcd (comment)
* database_7.tcd (albumartist)
* database_8.tcd (grouping)
* database_idx.tcd
0-8 are associated with specific tags (noted in parentheses after them), and idx is the master index.
I've recently installed Songbird as well as foldersync. The problem is whenever i try and sync a playlist that not only 3 or 4 songs, foldersync does nothing. The checkboxes and options are just greyed out and the status bar does nothing. Nothing is copied or deleted. I've tried this on an empty folder as well as populated folders. If anyone could help i would appreciate it.
Figured it out. I deleted all non-standard audio formats like audiobooks and .au files..stuff like that. For good measure i also deleted excessively long files, like audio books once again. Works fine now.
@stevejluke:
Any output in the error console?
@kingsinger,all:
I've currently no time to implement that, and I've no player to debug, so if anybody out there wants to implement that feature, post here or write a eMail.
I really like this - it does just exactly what it advertises, quickly and simply.
Has anyone tyed to bump it with 1.4.1 compatibility? does it work?
@Pyrignis:
I didn't tried it, if it works, could you leave a short comment here?!
Then I would bump it for all users.
Hello guys
It seems it sort of works, but messes up the folder structure of the sync-from album, so all my mp3s are dumped in one great big, messy sync-to folder?
hmmm.... i dont like that at all! I like to browse my music collection by folders, and play albums, not playlists of tracks.
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg: I understand being time crunched. A couple of thoughts.
1. With respect to not having a player to debug RB database sync on, you are aware of the rockbox simulator, aren't you?
http://rasher.dk/rockbox/simulator/
This is a version of RB you can run on your regular computer that should work more or less the same as it does on the hardware players. I think it was designed specifically for the sort of debugging operations you are talking about. You can select various virtual versions of rockbox that correspond to different hardware players (because the UI may vary from player to player--actually probably not relevant to database sync operations).
2. As an alternative to full database syncing with RB. Is there any way to put some options into the existing foldersync that would do the following to the songbird library/metadata: (a) each time you connect and sync a folder, the playcount of the tracks being synced back to the player would be advanced by 1; and (b) after each sync the last played date for the tracks being synced back to the player would be updated to the date and time when the sync takes place.
This is an imperfect solution, in that playcounts and last played dates might be advanced on tracks that you may not have actually played on your player. It also wouldn't accurately capture multiple plays of a track on the player either.
But for the purposes of updating smart playlists, it would be better than nothing, in that you could at least have some interactivity between Songbird and your player.
I used to use a program called synctunes to sync ums drives to itunes. It used an approach along these lines to update itunes smart playlists.
So basically, I think it would work like this:
1. Initiate sync.
2. Run through folder from player and update playcount and last played date in Songbird for tracks in the folder.
3. Then, after the smart playlist has been updated based on this updated metadata, sync the contents of this updated smart playlist with the existing folder.
@fredphoesh:
Did you look at the preferences?
Those are described in the Manual:
4.2.4 Auto-format filenames and path
@kingsinger:
I think that this is a task for somebody else, cause it isn't one of the main features that this AddOn should have, so:
@all:
If somebody would like to code Rockbox-Sync into FolderSync, please leave a comment or write an eMail; I will add him/her to FolderSync's GoogleCode-Project, so he/she could add the feature there.
Love it. Synced my HTC Hero with ease!
Only problem is I upgraded to Songbird 1.6.0a and FolderSync no longer works. :-(
Can't wait till it's updated so I can start syncing again. :-)
Just wanted to add my vote for syncing with DAAP. It would be extremely convenient for me.
@sognix:
If you want, you can test it and post here if it works:
Download Test Package
@rreveley:
I'm not sure if that is possible...
Is there a possibility to open DAAP-Libraries as folder?!
Then it would be possible ;)
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg: Fair enough. But if not here then where? Whether it's via rockbox or some other approach, this plug-in would be much more robust in the long run if it could have an impact on updating smart playlists somehow. It always surprises me in these discussions that more people don't use them or seem to understand their worth. Especially if your music library is relatively large, they really make it easier to insure that you are listening to a variety of that content with a minimum of fuss.
If I have an unplayed music smart play list, what good is it, if I can't effectively sync that play list with my player, because it won't update the play counts from the player to the computer and weed out the tracks I've already listened to?
@kingsinger:
What helps you if FolderSync would do a +1 in play count for all tracks synced (after sync)?
I think, this is easy to implement, but what does it help? Wouldn't all tracks in "unplayed music" be played after that?!
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg: The total number of tracks I have in unplayed music is larger than the capacity of my player. So the playlist I"m actually sycning is just a subset of that.
It's not a perfect solution by any means. If there was a way to advance by 1 just the ones that were actually played, that would be even better. But my sense is that that isn't possible.
Changing the last played date to the sync date is similar. It's not a perfect solution, in that it may assign a later last played date to songs that haven't actually been played. But at least it captures the songs that have been played, and this will update the smart playlists and create a fresh mix after a sync.
@kingsinger:
I will add it to the will-come, but I don't know how to implement that in a nice way (up to now)...
thank you, addon quite helpful.
Hello, this is a great plugin, I use it to syncronize my playlist between the work computer and my mp3 that I use in the work trip.
I can see a little trouble. If the plugin is viewed when the Songbird closes, when the application is open, the components don't distribute correctly, how you can see on the picture. If I swap to another, and reselect FolderSync all is viewed correctly.
I don't known if the trouble is Songbird or FolderSync, but I supposed because with another plugins I can't saw this matter.
Thank you for your time and effort.
@triad:
how you can see on the picture
on what picture? I'm not sure if I understand you right...
...but take a look at the error console... ;)
Is there something?
@killerposter:
Sync Profiles are there :)
@all:
Version 2 is out! :)
Alors là, j'ai un gros problème, j'ai utilisé votre extension FolderSync j'ai choisi un répertoire à synchroniser et là comme par magie, tout mes mp3 ont disparus ! C'est pas cool, je ne les retrouve nul part... Quelqu'un saurait me dire où ils sont passés ?
Google Translate :
While there, I have a big problem, I used your extension FolderSync I chose a directory to synchronize and then like magic, all my mp3s have disappeared! It is not cool, I can not find anywhere ... Someone can tell me where they went?
@romano64:
(Hope I understand the google-translation right)
Maybe you synced to your library, so the library content was deleted?!
If so, to recover the files use an undelete tool (for example Magic Rescue (linux) or Recuva (win)) Do this before you do anything else, to get them back will get more and more difficult if you wait too long.
To avoid further problems, please read the Manual. You might use Google Translate to get it in French.
Important ist the first-started hint (the message at FolderSync's first start), which describes hoe FolderSync work. After recovering your files, you should try the sync again; be sure to enter the target folder! You shouldn't use a filled targed folder, so create an empty folder anywhere to try it.
@all:
I know that some elements look terrible with purple rain... I will see what I can do in the next time...
how about 1.4.2 compatibility? =]
@slithytove2:
2.0.0.2 is compartible!
Hi,
On SB 1.4.2 build 20091221185628 running on Mac OS X 10.6, FolderSync's Preferences does not show the OK and Cancel buttons. This makes it impossible to save any settings. Is this a known bug? Maybe this something weird in my system? Thanks in advance! Love this plugin other than this minor issue.
@joseSF925:
I really don't know how it looks on mac, cause I have none ;)
There should be definitely those buttons...
On Win they are there (via feathers purple Rain and simplyBlack). Do you use another feather?
@all-mac:
Any mac user that can say if the preference dialog is shown correct?!
I have the same issue that petro73... no errors in the 'Error console', no message... but when I start to synchronize... hangs up with '% is "NaN%"' in progress bar but no file is syncronized.
@JavierPais:
You get also the message to re-open the pane?
@JavierPais,petro73:
Just had a short look at the code...
If there is nothing going too wrong it should only appear on syncs started via the sync all button above the + and - buttons, isn't it?
Hi rsjtdrjgfuzkfg!
I really like your add-on!
It is very useful to me.
One thing I miss is the ability to CANCEL a running sync.
Maybe I failed to find where I could do so, but I would have expected the 'Start sync' button to stay enabled and read 'Cancel sync' in case of a running sync.
If you think for some reason that this would be a too 'dangerous' feature for non expert users you maybe could make 'Enable canceling of running sync' an expert feature unchecked by default...
I ran into this issue today when I wanted to sync a large playlist for the first time and then recognized that there was also another playlist selected. Since I have quite a lot of playlists, this 2nd checked playlist was 'hidden' since is was out of the visible area (I had to scroll down to see it)
Ooops, while writing this, the Syncronisation stopped with the following error:
Error while parsing the following files:
_DEleteMe![Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED) [nsILocalFile.remove]" nsresult: "0x80520015 (NS_ERROR_FILE_ACCESS_DENIED)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 750" data: no]
I used the following scheme for synchronizing:
'%artist%/%year% - %album%/%artist% - %year% - %album% - %tracknumber% - %title%'
I checked all my tags and found out that in the 2nd playlist - the one I didn't want to sync -, there was one tag (%year%) missing for one entry.
Cheers,
Patrik
Running a Mac, Snow Leopard 10.6.2, Songbird 1.2, FolderSync 2.0.1.0, I also can not see OK or Cancel buttons in the preferences. Changes are saved by pressing Escape on keyboard.
m3u in different folder will be very nice when it comes! Keep up the great work!
@JavierPais,petro73:
The new version will put out other error messages I hope, post them here!
@lediable:
Ugh...
Is this also so at other Add-Ons?
@Chlorophyll:
Canceling is a thing I already thought about ;)
Added to the will-come!
The error is that your Songbird got no access to delete a file called "_DEleteMe!". So the file is write-protected and/or created by another OS-User?!
'The error is that your Songbird got no access to delete a file called "_DEleteMe!". So the file is write-protected and/or created by another OS-User?!'
Well, this is strange...
Because "_DEleteMe!" was the root folder I created just immediately before I started the Sync from within the Browse Dialog from within Songbird. This was the Folder where all files (except one) were transferred to (It was a 28,5 GB Playlist).
Everything worked O.K. otherwise.
Why would FolderSync want to try to delete that folder?
@Chlorophyll:
FolderSync tries to delete empty folders, but as you wrote the folder isn't empty...
This is strange. Maybe there is a bug; but I wonder that it didn't appeared before, because I didn't change anything on that part of the code in the last time...
I'll take a look on this...
But just a question: How can you sync one file outside of the root folder?!
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg:
'This was the Folder where all files (except one) were transferred to (It was a 28,5 GB Playlist).'
->
'But just a question: How can you sync one file outside of the root folder?!'
Sorry, I expressed myself badly and even wrong.
All files were transferred to directories created below this root folder according to the scheme I described in my earlier comment. Also the one file where the year tag was missing was actually transferred to a sub-folder below this root directory. Just the folder where it was contained in was called 'null - album', which is for sure absolutely correct.
Sorry!
Actually none of the add-ons I have installed have an OK or Cancel buttons, so perhaps this is not an issue? I open the Songbird preferences, click Add-ons, select one and click Preferences. I get a window with the Close and Minimize buttons in the title bar, but no OK or Cancel. Clicking the close button or hitting escape saves the changes. Keep up the great work!
Yes, I've restarted panel, Songbird, upgraded Songbird to 1.4.3, upgraded addon FolderSync too (2.0.1.1), cleaned db from ghost tracks (with The Exorcist) and nothing worked...
After all this tries, I've removed the database and all of my profile. After that worked for a little, but after a few days and while I'm classifying my collection, changing tags, renaming files and so on... the addon stops working another time with the same error.
I've tried another time to clean up ghost tracks, refresh the playlist and continues with the same error.
With another playlist, it works perfectly... maybe it's due to that I'm synchronizing with 'Most Rated' playlist? No... I've selected all the tracks from my 'Most Rated' playtist and added it to a new 'static' playlist... and tried to synchronize with this one... THE SAME! (NaN% and panel keeps disabled for ever and ever... no progress)
If I could give you more information or... else, please say it to me...
Oh, talking about folders and deletion...
If I have a folder ('FOLDER' for example), and my intention is to synchronize my playlist with this one, if the playlist is empty... Songbird deletes my 'FOLDER' and if we do another time... it says that folder doesn't exists... (well, SB deleted it before...)
No error given with new version... :( But I'm looking at the 'Error console'... could I look some file log or another place?
@lediable:
Maybe Mac-Mozilla handles preference-windows different than the Win-Mozilla. So it should work also on Mac :)
Thanks for the correction!
@JavierPais:
The first problem:
looks like one or more item in the playlist causes the error; Maybe try syncing via saving the sync ("+"-Button) and start it via "Sync all" (The sync icon above the "+"). Do you get an error message (popping up, not in the error console) then?
The second thing: Why syncing an empty playlist?!
The issue is that FolderSync deletes empty folders...
Will correct that in the next versions!
Synzing via 'Sync all'... it throws:
'An Internal Error occured:
URIError: malformed URI sequence'
(no more errors, even in the error console)
About the second one... when I've done that... no idea that playlist are empty. But until I've seen that, I've created the folder... start sync, SB deleted it, I've created the folder, start sync, SB deleted it, and so on... Then, when I opened the playlist to see one of the songs than must be synchronized... I've seen that playlist are empty. Maybe it must not delete the folder sync (only it's contents) or if the folder doesn't exist... it must be created by SB... isn't?
Just installed the add-on for Songbird 1.4.3 on Mac OS X and there is no "OK" or "Apply" or "Cancel" button in the preferences pane to save or apply changes. I can send a screenshot if necessary. Thank you!
On 1.4.3 with the latest version of FolderSync, sync does not work (NaN% progress bar) and I get the following error:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520001 (NS_ERROR_FILE_UNRECOGNIZED_PATH) [nsIFile.append]" nsresult: "0x80520001 (NS_ERROR_FILE_UNRECOGNIZED_PATH)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 569" data: no]
The destination directory definitely exists (/media/disk/music).
@JavierPais:
Please check the file location of all to-synced files in songbird; look if all paths start correct with "file:///"
@Landdogger:
this is known, mac-songbirds don't have these buttons. Use the ESC key instead.
@sixtyorange:
Try disabling M3U writing, maybe the playlist-name has got not supported characters?
@JavierPais:
Please check the file location of all to-synced files in songbird; look if all paths start correct with "file:///"
@Landdogger:
this is known, mac-songbirds don't have these buttons. Use the ESC key instead.
@sixtyorange:
Try disabling M3U writing, maybe the playlist-name has got not supported characters?
Thanks! I think it wasn't the .m3u writing since the playlists were only one word long each and they were all roman characters. Oddly, though, I managed to fix it: I tried syncing a playlist with just a couple of files without any special characters, etc., and that worked all right. After that, syncing of any other playlists worked fine. Bizarre.
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg Great, thanks (apologies for reposting an old issue). The problem I'm having, however, is that I can't make a new profile. If I use the + to make one, it's doesn't show up in the extension's "via profile" pull-down menu on the side, and is gone when I open the Preferences panel again.
Should ESC be applying changes?
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg:
If a synchronization is started and then songbird is quit by the user, the songbird gui disappears, but your add-on still runs and songbird still can be seen in the process explorer of WinXP.
I think FolderSync should somehow be able to get acknowledged that Songbird quits and should stop processing.
@sixtyorange:
I've no idea what this could be, but it's gone... really bizarre.
@Landdogger:
Maybe Mac-Songbirds doesn't handle ESC as Accept, but do also save changes?!
lediable told me, the changes would be saved. Could you try that with things other than profiles, please?
Maybe that's the problem:
Mac-Songbird supports the preference-windows like the other Songbirds, but for active content (the scripts for the profiles) there is another notifying when the user saves?!
Or, will every change be saved immediately, then there can't be a notification?!
Maybe, if no Mac-Songbird developer reads this and gives me a hint how to handle this, I'll add a button in the profile tab to save changes in this tab, then the problem would have a workaround.
@all Mac-Developers:
Any idea how to use the Attribute "onbeforeaccept" of "prefwindow" under mac?
Or another idea how to accept the "prefwindow" there?
Done!! Ahaha, one of the file have invalid characters on his encoding... Many thanks, after removing it... all works fine!
awesome! songbird is not the same without this.
An Internal Error occured:
[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE) [sbILibrary.getItemByIndex]" nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 577" data: no]
I'm having the same problem as petro here! :)
Latest version of Songbird, Win7 64bit, admin rights were on and my folder remains empty :(
running it under xp or vista compat doesn't make a difference either, I still get the NaN% error
I'd LOVE to use this add on but I can't until it's fixed :( just bought a 1tb HDD for the job too
@nathanielsametz:
I'm sorry that I couldn't take a look at this especially for 2.1, will definitely do that soon, you could of course try the new version, maybe the problem is gone?!
I'll search it... soon...
Just a short question: Do you sync via the "SyncAll"-Sign-Button or the Start Sync button?
@Chlorophyll, all:
Canceling is there!
Thanks a lot Mr. 'rsjtdrjgfuzkfg'! :-)
@nathanielsametz:
I had a closer look on this, it is a problem with your library which can't be reproduced on my machine (win7 32bit).
Could you try another playlist, and, if it doesn't work there, a new, fresh profile?
Looks like I'm getting the same problem when I click attempt to sync with either button (profiles/playists have no impact) except now when I use the syncall button a window pops up saying "internal error" with a blank message, and NaN% is showing in the progress. When I click "start sync" no window comes up, it just greys out. Something to do with 64-bit os is it? :/
Also, when you accidentally don't browse for a folder and hit sync the bar says 100% and foldersync greys out xD
I can still this is a fantastic piece of software "rsjtdrjgfuzkfg," I just wish I could use it! :P
thankyou! :)
fr locale updated :)
@nathanielsametz:
Two things that you could do to help me find the issue:
If you look in the error console, can you see anything appearing when click start sync?
Also, did you try a fresh profile?
Plugin does not work on OSX.
I fed it several playlists, including my Highest Rated playlist, then pointed it at a folder. It wrote the playlists to the folder, but then did nothing. It did not transfer any music files, instead displaying a blank progress bar and "NaN%". No error messages were displayed.
i'm using foldersync/songbird with my motorola droid and i'm syncing three playlists to it (2 smart and 1 regular)... i think some file is preventing the sync to finish, because i tried a few times; the first time it stopped at 85% and now it always stops at 30%, sometimes 32%... any way i can see a log from my sync?
just an update: i tried the same sync with a folder on my computer and it still hangs at 80-85%, so the problem is not my phone
@CondorDes:
Please look in the Error Console (Tools menu). Is there any message?
@sylviofurtado:
Via this link you can download a debug version. Install it, do your sync and look in the error console.
So you should see the file (look at the last entry) on which it hang up.
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg
Perfect!!! There were songs in my library without the .mp3 file that were preventing the sync! Removed then and it worked like a charm! Something to look in next versions, a error message would be nice! Thanks very very much for the help!
There seems to be a bug in the file handling of this addon. I cannot Sync because i have two files (and probably many more) with file names that this addon freaks out about.
The first file name had multiple characters in it, (, !, *, etc. I renamed it to remove all the odd characters, and the addon synced it fine. The second file name has two asterisks in it **, and it also errors out with the same issue. I have taken a screenshot of this one:
http://i.imgur.com/CXvzS.png
Let me know if there is anything i can do to help you pinpoint this bug. I would assume though, that you could rename one of your mp3s to reproduce this bug.
Note that Songbird is set to manage my media library, so both the file name and the mp3's title tag are that same name, as shown in the image.
OS: Ubuntu 64bit
Songbird: 1.4.3 (Installed by the getdeb.net Deb)
@sylviofurtado:
I'm not sure if I understand you right, you mean that some songs don't exist on the disc anymore, and you forgot to delete them in Songbird?
@Leefmc:
Looks like the basic of Songbird, Mozilla, has a problem handling such files, for example the * character isn't allowed in many filesystems cause the use in for example *.mp3 as filter.
But ! should be no problem...
I don't know how to fix that, if it's so...
You could try it with a single ! again, under win it worked in the last test, but I've no linux currently...
If you've much time you could try which combination cause the error ;)
In destination files * and ! should be no problem, because they should be replaced by _ . You could additionally check this to make sure that it isn't a destination problem.
@lediable:
Saving M3U to other folders is implemented in the current release :)
@charlessp:
Album Images can be saved now ;)
Hello,
My config is :
openSUSE 11.2
Songbird 1.4.3, Build 1438 (20100119170357)
foldersync 2.3.0.0
Nokia N900
I selected a playlist and the N900 songs folder mount on /media (full path : /media/Nokia N900/.sounds )
I clicked on "sync" button.
The progress bar show NaN
No songs are synchronized. I wait 2 hours...
The error console has no error, no info, no warning...
I can't select "cancel" and have to close songbird.
Have you got an idea ?
Best regards
Exact same issues as the previous poster. I am syncing with a Palm Pre. The error console does have an error message in my case though.
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.lastModifiedTime]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 940" data: no]
Setup is:
Mac OS X 10.5.8
Songbird 1.4.3, Build 1438 (20091223030116)
foldersync 2.3.0.0
Palm Pre
@guiss:
No, I've no idea...
I will search if there are anywhere errors not handled...
@jmonee84:
Looks like in the playlist(s) is at least one song which media (for example a mp3 file) doesn't exist.
Such songs can cause that issue. I'll add a check for deleted files in one of the next versions.
I was wondering if it was possible to sync a library with the host systems directory structure?
@Duv Jones:
That is (currently) not possible.
If you have a structure containing only things like album, artist, track-number, title, rating, etc. you can use the file name scheme feature, to re-generate the structure. You can find it in FolderSync's Preferences.
If that doesn't help, what kind of structure do you have?
Maybe you need more options for the file name scheme?
If so, let me know. ;)
I'm trying to "Write Cover Art" to the album folder, but it doesn't seem to be working. What are the prerequisites for this? Can I export the album art that's embedded in the tags to a jpeg? Or does it have to be in jpg format in the folder on my hard drive already (which doesn't seem to be working either)? I'm just trying to figure out why no jpegs are showing up on my Droid. Perhaps you can shed some light/give some more detailed instructions?
Suggestion for cover art. It appears that when I specify "folder.jpg" for output file name it appends on another ".jpeg". This isn't very good as you are assuming that my player will work with .jpeg extension. It would be much better if you check if an extention exists (.jpg) and don't alter the output filename if it does.
Also, I just upgraded from 1.5.0 to 2.3.0 and I see you never implemented my suggested fix for "null" disc number. This means I ahve to manually patch my code for this error. Once again, I can't understand why you didn't fix this. Every music file copied with %discnumber% tag gets a "(null)" prefix. You mentioned something before about not liking "this dirty fix", but the fix is better than the crappy behavior it currently has. Right now %discnumber% is unusable because of the way you convert the string value into a number without regard for empty value (null). I've fixed this on my local copy (again) but it's silly to have to manually fix this every time I update. I updated because you added cover art feature, which I think is great, except that it assumes .jpeg extension. My player doesn't show cover art unless it's .jpg.
I'm also happy to see you added a "delete before copying" option. I think that will help and is a great idea. Cheers.
@Gyroscope352:
Please take a look to the error console. If you can't find anything there, please post here again, then I'll make a debug version for this feature.
@ChrisSavery:
The file-extension thing is a great idea, will be implemented in some later versions.
The disknumber thing, I've forgotten it. It should also get into one of the next versions.
@ChrisSavery:
So....
both implemented ;)
It looks like it could be very useful with my Sansa Clip+ and my kid's Sansa Clips, but I can't seem to create any profiles. There's a message that says the profile will appear on the next re-start, but every time I restart, the profile is gone. I can't see anything in the manual that shed's any light on what step I'm missing, can you tell me what I'm doing wrong (using Kubuntu 9.04).
Thanks,
@joekm:
After you added and configured a profile, you have to click at the Ok button (bottom-right corner, near to the Cancel Button).
After that click the profiles (and all other preferences) will be saved.
There is only one button on the bottom-right corner and it says "Close". I can find neither a "Cancel" nor "Ok" button. If it helps, I am presently running Songbird 1.2 on a Kubuntu 9.04 system. I can also send you a screen shot of the dialog box.
@joekm:
Try the new version. It should be saved on all other platforms except windows when closing the dialog, on windows when clicking Accept.
Does that work?!
Simply closing the dialog definitely does not save the preferences (via "Close" button or "x" in upper right of window). It's a minor issue and I'm not sure if it's worth installing the tarball when I can just wait for the .deb to show up in the repositories. For the time being, I'll just work with it as is.
I like your plug-in, it is the main reason that Songbird displaced Amarok as my primary music manager.
@joekm:
Next try, now changes should be saved immediately on Linux.
Does this work?
I think I may have mis-understood you earlier. When you said, "try the new version", I thought you were referring to Songbird itself (1.4 vs 1.2). I'm away from my home computer at the moment but will re-install and try your latest version tonight and let you know.
Thanks for turning this around so fast.
I am having issues using foldersync to copy the album-art. Using the Cowon D2/S9 devices which require cover.jpg for the album art image. I have a Mac with Snow Leopard, Songbird 1.4.3 Build 1438; Foldersync 2.4.0.2
I have tried foldersync with folder.jpg/cover.jpg/ - it doesn't want to copy the folder artwork.
What is required to make it work? When will foldersync be able to copy the album art that songbird downloads by default?
It's working now, thanks :)
@bulldude:
If an AddOn like DetailsPane is able to show the cover, it should work. Songbird saves a copy of all covers in the profile folder, so what FolderSync does is just copying these files (and renaming). The only thing this will "fail" is if the cover is stored in an format other than jpg in the tag of an file, if you enter folder.jpg FolderSync will force the jpg-ending, but the image itself will stay in the other format.
But what you write sounds like there is a problem with the copying...
I'll make a new debug version, so could you - as soon it is released - try it and post the messages you get here?
@bulldude:
The new version fixed a problem with uncommon cover files (saved in the database as resources, not as files).
Maybe this fixed your problem, if not, the new debug version can be found here.
Use: Look in the Error console and post one of the Enumerate-Messages belonging to a song that has a cover.
It seems you're actively refining your plug-in so I guess I'll add one more comment. I like the fact that your .m3u playlist generator uses relative paths and allows you to force the "\" for vfat formatted systems. I also like that you can deselect the "./". However, when I do that, I get "..\[artist]\[album]\[song]". In order for it to work on my Sansa Clip+, it needs to be "[artist]\[album]\[song]". It's not a big deal since I can just pull up the .m3u file in a text editor and delete the leading "..\". But, since you seem to putting a lot of effort into refinement, I guess I'll mention it.
@joekm:
Can you post the full configuration (Profile-related settings, m3u settings, etc.)
I just tested it and - on Win7 32bit with my profile - it worked as is should:
.\<path>
if the option is selected and
<path>
if disabled.
Maybe you entered a wrong path in the to-textbox for m3u playlists?
There has to be a single point
.
in it in order to work, for example if you store the playlists to
Playlists
every entry starts with
.\..\<path>
or
..\<path>
(depending on your preferences).
(All paths use \, but it should also work with /)
Having lots of trouble with the add-on dealing with duplicates. If I have two copies of the same mp3 for some reason (songtitle.mp3 and songtitle-1.mp3, for example), this causes FolderSync to freeze up and stop copying.
This often happens if I have the same song from different sources. To figure this out I opened up the folder on my phone and sorted by "date modified" and the found that the files it was getting stuck on were duplicates somehow.
Also, it seems to be getting stuck at 3% now, but I can't figure out why. It has added new tracks to my device, but won't finish to 100%.
That said it does work very well when I don't have duplicates!
Any thoughts on this?
Also, is there a better way to handle these kinds of questions, rather than this long list ? :)
Ok, I've gone into the preferences dialog and under "Write M3U playlist to", I put just a ".". Next time I make a playlist update, I'll see if that works. Thanks.
lately it has trouble syncing 100% of my songs. How can I check why it's getting stuck? Also the cancel button doesn't work I have to shutdown songbird to cancel.
@Landdogger:
I'll check that duplicate thing. If there is a problem I'll try to solve it...
If I understood you right, it now hangs without duplicates at 3%?
If so, try the debug version. You can download it here. Just look into the error console after installing, the last message might give you the information why it hangs.
@joekm:
Good Luck ;)
@zaphod777:
Try the debug version (download it here). Look into the error console to see the output. If you need help with interpreting the messages, feel free to post here again ;)
Great, thanks for the response. Here's the two types of errors I'm seeing:
FolderSync: Debug: Enumerated Item:
Razorlight,Fall, Fall, Fall,Up All Night,Alternative & Punk,0,12,droid,unknown,2004,1,1,null
and
FolderSync: Debug: Enumerated Item:
Hot Chip,Take It In,One Life Stand,Electronic,0,10,droid,unknown,2010,0,0,/Users/Home/Library/Caches/Songbird2/Profiles/8u5cl6lm.default/artwork/032728787ad2fc19b113038bf24a20bf.jpg
I notice the jpg file in there...strange?
@Landdogger:
Aren't there more messages?
The jpg file isn't strange. This is a path to the jpg file of the artwork of the album.
The important message is the last message. Could you post the last message you got there?
Or are those the last messages?!
Those messages are only about listing all songs and collecting needed information about them.
I think that the error is later, when performing the "real" sync.
Sorry, this is the last message:
FolderSync: Debug: Copy File:
/Users/Home/Music/Music Library/Hot Chip/One Life Stand/09 - Keep Quiet.mp3 to /Volumes/WSLDROID/music/Hot Chip/One Life Stand as Keep Quiet.mp3
@Landdogger:
So it looks like there is a problem copying
/Users/Home/Music/Music Library/Hot Chip/One Life Stand/09 - Keep Quiet.mp3
to
/Volumes/WSLDROID/music/Hot Chip/One Life Stand as Keep Quiet.mp3
Could you try to copy the file manually? Does that work?
Is there something special with that file?
It seems that FS is having trouble dealing with files whose filenames have been changed. I had turned on "Manage music library" and I think that Songbird renamed some files which are now causing issues. Here's the latest error:
FolderSync: Debug: Delete File to copy changed File:
/Volumes/WSLDROID/music/George Gershwin/Gershwin_ Rhapsodies/Rhapsody in Blue (1924).mp3
followed by
FolderSync: Debug: Copy File:
/Users/Home/Music/Music Library/George Gershwin/Gershwin Rhapsodies/01 Rhapsody in Blue (1924).mp3 to /Volumes/WSLDROID/music/George Gershwin/Gershwin_ Rhapsodies as Rhapsody in Blue (1924).mp3
You can see that those two file names are different because one has the track number at the beginning, but I'm not totally sure why that is. Where is the are the different versions coming from? Shouldn't it just automatically use the updated file?
I can fix this by wiping the files from my device (Motorola Droid) and the copy clean, but this might continue to be an issue.
Could it be possible that FolderSync is recognizing that the file has been changed (when it says "delete file to copy changed file") but then still tries to use the old filename when copying?
I think it's safe to assume that the track numbers in the filenames were added when I had turned on "manage music library" (which is now off), but it doesn't seem that this should make a difference.
Sorry, one more comment! I just experimented with adding some more music:
FolderSync: Debug: Copy File:
/Users/Home/Music/Music Library/Manitoba/Manitoba - Track 03.m4a to /Volumes/WSLDROID/music/Manitoba/Up In Flames as Hendrix With KO (featuring Koushik).m4a
The file name that FolderSync is trying to use doesn't actually exist on my hard drive, but seems to be generated by metadata, for example (I have the gracenote add-on, as well). The file name on my hard drive is "Manitoba - Track 03.m4a" but is listed as "Up In Flames as Hendrix With KO (featuring Koushik).m4a" on my device.
I could be totally wrong, but that seems to mean that FolderSync is changing the name of the file when it's copying it to the folder on my device, and then when it tries to sync, it encounters a problem because the filenames are different?
Thoughts?
@Landdogger:
You have the Filename sheme enabled. So FolderSync creates the file names for each file, without caring about the source file name.
I don't know what went wrong there...
Maybe there is a problem while getting the next file?!
If you export m3u, what is the next file?
Could it cause the error?
Just updated to latest version. folder.jpg working great now, and discnumber appears to be fixed too. Thank you for your updates and attention to detail. :)
Your suggestion worked just fine, thanks again :)
joekm
=====
"Ok, I've gone into the preferences dialog and under "Write M3U playlist to", I put just a ".". Next time I make a playlist update, I'll see if that works. Thanks."
I've been having much more success, but still some strange behavior. It keeps getting stuck on certain songs that have NOT been updated. For example, I'll add a few songs to a playlist and it will update those songs no problem, but it then gets stuck updating some random songs from an album that was already synced a while back. The files are usually already on both the device and my hard drive.
If I delete the files in question (usually the whole album) and then reselect FileSync from the Content Pane Options menu and sync again (since it was stuck and this resets it), it will work. Sometimes I've got to remove a bunch of albums that keep making the add-on get stuck.
I don't know why it's choosing these particular songs to get stuck on, any thoughts?
I actually just realized that the files that were creating problems were "modified" today, as told by the "Date Modified" field. I don't know how/why they were modified, but this could have caused the problem.
My apologies for all of the posts! It seems that if the album art for a song is changed, FolderSync gets hung up syncing it back to the device. That explains the "Date Modified" and why some older songs were causing issues. Songbird must be automatically updating the album artwork.
@Landdogger:
Thanks! Try the 2.4.0.4 (release in some minutes)!
Just trying again after adding some songs to one of the playlists and it's hanging again.
Is there a debug version?
@Landdogger:
Yes, you can find it on FolderSync's GoogleCode-Page. For 2.4.0.4 you can download the file directly here.
I spoke way too soon, it's working great now.
One of the issues was obvious: there wasn't enough space on my SD card. It would very helpful to have a dialogue pop-up to let the user know this is a problem. I also had the option to remove "delete not needed file and folders" unchecked, and realized that this was a big part of the problem: when I would remove songs from playlists, they would not be removed from my SD card when I'd sync. Eventually, all the space gets filled up and there is no room to add updated songs.
You might consider adding some more information about this option so people can avoid this problem. Simple fix, and it's working great now!
i have a little problem with the playlist generated by foldersync my hardware player (alpine ida-X301) din't read them.
I i found the problme and i modifier a little the file pane.js to remove the empty line betwen each track and remove a ".." located at the start on the filename where can post you the diff file if you want to add this to the normal source .
Using Songbird 1.4.3 and just downloaded This add-on. Where is it? I am using Ubuntu, but do not see this add on anywhere. I saw the warning message when I restarted so I know it is here some where. Any help would be appreciated.
Never mind, after much searching and reading I found out how to get FolderSync to show up (this really should be explained in better detail some where)
On the Panel Toggle Bar is a drop down arrow. When I clicked on the drop down arrow I found the option of switching to FolderSync.
As a brand new user to Songbird the first thing I started looking for was a way to sync my blackberry.
I will of course start referring my friends to this Add-On with instructions on how to actually see it, but I think you should include a tutorial or a link or something to help people who are brand new to Songbird.
@mstrangers:
You can send me code via my eMail, which is my user name with [at] "abwesend.de" in the end.
The empty line removing, ok, but for that you don't have to send me code, I'll implement that.
(It will be only active if you disable extended M3U in the preferences)
But: .. in front of every file MUST be in order to get a m3u on a device to work, maybe your alpine ida-X301 doesn't support relative paths?
If so, you can try to save the playlist into the sync-target-folder (leave the preference write M3U to as single dot "."), then a ".." is not necessary in order to get a valid path.
@michaeljwjr:
Did you take a look the Manual?
The opening is described in 2. Quick Start Guide / 2.1. Open the FolderSync Pane.
If so and you didn't understand it, it would be great if you can provide a better version (eMail: my user name with [at] "abwesend.de" in the end).
@mstrangers:
The empty line thing is implemented. Just disable extended M3U, and you'll get it.
Hi,
There is a bug when syncing tracks with an artist name = "". As a result the addon hangs when exporting the m3u playlist.
it's not a big problem, but I had 1 song that made the whole sync process hang and it took me quite a long time to figure out which file caused this problem.
cheers,
lito
@DonLito:
I'll check that. Thanks for reporting.
I had the same non-synching "NaN%" issues when I worked out that I had some tracks with blank titles, artists and albums. This makes sense since I was trying to use the filename schema which lays the tracks out by %artist%/%album%/%title%...
@scottwallacesh:
Did you have m3u-export enabled?
Maybe it's the same issue as reported by DonLito?
Until now I had no time to check a problem with m3u and empty tags, I'll do that...
Started using FolderSync over the last week, and it works pretty well - with one exception so far. Balance 014 (Mixed by Joris Voorn) has excessively long track names (many tracks mixed together). For example:
Artist: Yagya + Paperclip People + Basic Channel + Gel Abril + Ici.eme + Matthias Tanzmann + Minilogue + Heiko Laux
Title: Snowflake 2 + Remake [Basic Reshape] + Q 1.2 + Your Face Is A Mess [Itamar Sagi Remix] + Gran-Dii-Ree + Rugby + Ghost [Dub] + Waves Ahead
This results in a filename when syncing that is longer than 256 characters, and the sync hangs. I don't really care what the filename is, so I suppose that I should just set the filename to be the tracknumber.ext, but it's certainly a bug that it tries to copy a file with a filename that is too long.
@KitchenStaff:
Should be fixed in the current version. ;)
Thanks for reporting!
I'll check this tonight - thanks for the quick response! This plugin is critical for my ipod syncing...since there's no ipod support with Songbird anymore, I've gone Rockbox and will never look back...
first, thanks for the app. I started using it to update with my mp3 player and noted (as other above also have done it) that the program's default option includes deleting all files in the dest. folder.
I would like to suggest the inclusion of some type of warning before you click "Sync" for the first time, it happened to me, fortunately no important file went missing.
and again, thanks for the app, this will make podcast listening much easier.
@arresc:
Does nobody reads the current warning after first start?!...
Maybe I'll add such a warning. But I think it might be more efficient disabeling deleting by default?!
What do you think?
Can you add the composer tag to the dir structure?
@KitchenStaff:
I'll do that.
@KitchenStaff:
Implemented.
Great job on the app. However, my HTC Touch Diamond, with WM 6.1, ixnt recognized by your app although being by Xongbird. Do you happen to know why? Thankx in advance!
@juno14:
I'm not familiar with WindowsMobile, but is there any way transfering files the normal way (so the Phone would get an Drive letter)?
Such a way is needed to get FolderSync running. FolderSync can access only files on volumes with drive letters.
And a recognition shouldn't be anyway, you will have to enter the path to the music folder yourself (or use the browse button).
Youre right! When connected in the normal way Xongbird xync perfectly. Thankx for reminding me :D
By the way, Im xorry thix ix not related to your addon any more but my wma filex cant be xynced by Xongbird. Do you know why? It xayx tranxcoder not available. My phone'x muxic player doex xupport wma ilex though. Thankx!
PX: My s key ix broken. Xorry for the confuxion..
Hey, having an issue syncing to Rockboxed iPod 5.5g. Getting error messages:
19 Another Girl [1965 Stereo Mix].ogg [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 671" data: no]
18 I'm Down.ogg [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 671" data: no]
7 Hey Jude.ogg [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.copyTo]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 671" data: no]
....and so on. It happens when I change tags, and the error messages only seem to pop up for the files I've changed the tags on.
Also, if I sync again, there's a few less error messages, and then the next time fewer again until everything syncs properly. Which is fine if I'm only syncing one album, but with several thousand songs.....
So far it's been faster to just wipe the iPod and sync everything from scratch.
My apologies if the issue has been addressed before, but it's quite a long thread and quite difficult to find relevant information in.
@sinisterbob:
Some information that would be great:
Did you enabled the change of updated files?
Did you enabled the filename scheme?
Some things you could try:
Use the debug version (currently for 2.4.0.4, should work for a test) and post the entries in the Error console belonging to the failing files.
Try to create the new files manually, can you access the destination to the problematic files?
Hi, thanks for the quick reply. A screenshot of my preferences can be found at http://imgur.com/K8Cy2.png
I'm on Max OS X 10.5.8, Songbird 1.4.3, FolderSync 2.4.2.0.
Although, I suspect it's something to do with the way Songbird handles tags. It doesn't seem to update them correctly; whenever I do a larg-ish batch rename (i.e. change "The Beatles" to "Beatles, The") some of the files will turn up on Rockbox still tagged as "The Beatles".
@sinisterbob:
Does all files show up in Songbird with correct tags?
And can Songbird play the problematic files?
Yes. Everything looks fine and plays fine in Songbird.
I have it set up so that it will organise my music folder based on metadata, and all the folders and files are correct too, so the tags seem to be updating correctly.
What I have discovered, is that there is a hidden Trash folder in Rockbox, which confuses the Rockbox database. I.e. when you change tags in Songbird, FolderSync deletes the old files from Rockbox (by moving them to Trash(?)), then writes the new (changed) filed. BUT, the old files are still in Rockbox, in the hidden Trash folder, which then show up in the Database. Perhaps this also confuses FolderSync?
I don't know if this has anything to do with FolderSync anymore. There seems to be a few distinct problems; maybe with FolderSync, maybe with Songbird, and definitely with Rockbox; probably all three to some degree.
@sinisterbob:
FolderSync doesn't move files to trash.
I'm not sure what causes the problem, and the problem could be located in FolderSync. But because I can't reproduce the issue at my machine and do some testing, I've no idea how to solve it.
The Rockbox-keeps-all-old-tags-problem is a problem with Rockbox I think. But this shouldn't cause an error in FolderSync.
Did you tried to do what foldersync does manually? Are there problems in the player's file-system?
If not, the best way will be disabling the changed-file-copy and try again. If the error still occurs, try the debug version and look if you can find a common thing on all problematic files, try to find a way to reproduce the problem.
If you find anything that solves the problem or if you have an idea how to reproduce it, it would be great if you post it, so I can have a look on the depending parts of the code.
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg:
Thanks for the help, but I'm done. I'm pretty sure at this stage that FolderSync isn't to blame, and I'm not prepared to deal with the headaches of Rockbox on a day to day basis. While I love the added functionality of the firmware, not being able to perform basic tasks like syncing properly is a deal breaker for me. So back to Apples walled garden for me :(
I'm almost certain that FolderSync is not to blame. It is an invaluable add-on to Songbird, and works like a charm all things being equal. Thank you for your work, and for consistently and reliably helping with annoying little problems like mine!
I used this to sync to my motorola droid, and while the songs were put on the phone and the playlist labels were visible in the music app, the playlists were empty. how do I fix this?
@txgecko:
I'm not familiar with the motorola droid, does it support m3u-Playlists?
If so, it should work. Make sure you have playlist export enabled in preferences. Maybe you have to toggle the extended-m3u feature.
If you need a special folder, change the path for m3u-playlist-creation in the preferences.
Hello,
I found the cause of my problem.
What I obtained :
- Playlist white "?" instead of the total size
- NAN in the progress bar
- No songs synchronized
I have this if there is one or more songs in the playlist withe an empty "file location".
Deleting that kind of songs from the playlist resolve the problem and synchronisation is fully OK.
So the problem is a songbird problem not a folder sync problem.
Now I have to find why some songs have an empty file location....
Best regards
i have a terrible bug that i don´t know how to explain... the songs are all transferred to my device, but the m3u playlist that is created has the order of the songs totally wrong... i would like to have the songs in the album order (track 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, etc) but they are all out of order... how to fix this??
@sylviofurtado:
FolderSync uses Songbird's internal order for the m3u playlists. Are the songs sorted correctly in the playlist?
Do the numbers (#-column) fit?
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg
yes, everything seems correct inside songbird but the playlists are exported wrongly... so i think it´s a songbird problem, but can you circunvent it to a new playlist generator not using songbird´s?
@sylviofurtado:
I had a closer look at that issue:
The order that is exported is the order when sorting the #-column.
BUT: The numbers in the #-column are always the position, so:
If a song A has the number 2 and a Song B 1, and I sort by name, A is displayed with number 1, but internally haves still number 2.
I'm not sure if there's a way to prevent this...
Just updated my computer, moving from Kubuntu to Windows 7 in the process. Just re-installed latest Songbird and it's indigenous sync is just not that mature yet. Your add-on really the key that makes Songbird a good choice for me.
NICE WORK ON THIS :)
Bravo...excellent work - a very useful tool. Thank you.
hi,
that addon works fine for me, but if i try to add m3u-playlists, the addon won't sync. it's running on win7 in admin-mode, syncing a htc desire to sd://MP3
i tried to sync the playlists to ".", "pl", "/MP3" but had no luck yet. if i uncheck the checkox (m3u), the sync works.
maki:
What is your sync target? (e:\MP3 ?)
Are therer any messages in the error console? (Tools|Error Console)
Target is f:\MP3
Didn't know that there's an error console.
Fehler: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520001 (NS_ERROR_FILE_UNRECOGNIZED_PATH) [nsIFile.append]" nsresult: "0x80520001 (NS_ERROR_FILE_UNRECOGNIZED_PATH)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://foldersync/content/pane.js :: anonymous :: line 798" data: no]
@maki:
you have spaces or similar invisible characters in the textbox for m3u path?
A thing you could try: open a new tab and enter "about:config" in the url bar. search for
extensions.FolderSync.m3ufolder
Is it bold? If it is, right click it and choose Reset.
Sync with your default profile. (m3u writing enabled)
I used this p***e of s**t plugin and it deleted all my music folders. Wtf?
I had a collection of more then 10 gb...
@snyrting:
The first thing is: use recovery software (win: Recuva) if you have no backup. Indally use a os from a cd (windows pe?) with those software, and poweroff your pc as soon as possible; If you have none you could ask friends. Every access to your hdd will cause some songs to be gone forever.
The second thing: (read after you saved your files)
What did you enter as target folder? Everything in the target folder will get deleted, including sub-folders, except the songs FolderSync should sync to the target. That's not a bug, that's what FolderSync should do. There should be a warning popping up at the first start of Songbird with FolderSync installed... didn't it?
If you dislike this behaviour (deleting files at sync target), you can change it in FolderSync's Preferences.
All features are described in the Manual, including all Preferences.
While recovering my music files i also noticed that it erased most of my very important word files.
The next time you create an app. that can erase half of your HDD make sure it warns the user about it...
@snyrting:
There should be a warning... saying:
You just started FolderSync the first time. This Add-On gives your the opportunity to sync songbirds's playlists and libraries to every folder you want. Sync means that new files are copied and old files, and files that are not part of the sync-process, are DELETED.
Or something similar in your language, if FolderSync supports it. Didn't this warning appeared after the Restart you had to perform for the installation?
After reading the pane.js i understood what the problem causes. The name of a playlist must not contain a "/" !!
Please check this in the next version an replace "/" with "-" or so
Thanks,
maki
@maki:
Fixed. Thanks for the report ;)
Playlists will now get controlled for unsuitable characters like songs :)
Been a while since I've checked in here. Looks like you've added a little more Rockbox support. Great news! Just wanted to make sure I understand exactly what this does. Manual says this:
"Import Rockbox-Play-Count into Library
(not in screenshot yet)
If this option is enabled, FolderSync will sum the play count from your Rockbox device into Songbird's play count and update the rating if set. The Rockbox play count is reset after sync. The database location is auto-detected if it is on the same drive as the sync destination."
So FS takes the play count for each song in rockbox and transfers it over to songbird, then it sets everything in the Rockbox DB back to zero again? Is that correct? Or does it just do that for the songs that are being synced?
@kingsinger:
afaik it does everything in Rockbox lib.
It takes play counts, and adds them to the Songbird play counts, and resets the play counts in the Rockbox lib. If rating in Rockbox is set, Songbird's rating will get updated, too.
Okay, so just to clear, it sets all items in the Rockbox database back to zero, not just the songs in the folder being synced? I ask because the Rockbox database scans all directories on the player for music and then keeps track of metadata for all of this music, based on when a particular track gets played. So it would be good to know whether it resets the entire DB on a sync, because that could have implications for how one chooses to organize their directory structure on the player.
Beyond that, does it update last played date in Songbird too? Or does that just get set to whatever date you sync the songs.
@kingsinger:
afaik (I didn't write the module and have no rockboxed device) it goes through all things, not only those who get synced.
What's the thing that is important for you for your directory structure?
Great update! This is far better now it's been shifted from the panes. Favourite syncs is a great addition, too. Keep up the good work :)
On my wife's Windows XP machine, attempting to sync (for the first time) yields the unhelpful error "Sync failed: undefined". The addon works fine on my Win 7 machine, however. Is there any way I can get more details about what the error is?
@glenn:
"undefined" is returned if the thread crashes - which should not happen. Anyway - you can help me to find and fix the bug via posting the error you get in the Error Console (Tools menu), look for errors with FolderSync in it.
If there is no message, open a new tab, enter
about:config
as url and accept the warning. Search for
extensions.foldersync.debugLevel
and change it to 5, then run the failing sync again and post the last messages in the error console. I recommend closing the error console before you start the sync, and open it after, because a open error console might slow down the sync a lot if in debugLevel 5. After that you might reset the debug level to the default value (3).
I tried FolderSync, it copied all files flat into the root folder, but I want to keep the folder structure (reorganize does not help here). Is it possible to keep the relative path as the files are in my library?
For instance
C:\Users\x\Music\foo\bar\baz.mp3 C:\Users\x\Music\foo\baz2.mp3
will sync to
E:\Music\foo\bar\baz.mp3 E:\Music\foo\baz2.mp3
Also the file names were transformed to lower case. Is this intended?
Hi,
Same "undefined" error here. I looked for errors after changing the debug level following your indications. All messages are labeled in blue. The list is long, I post the latest one; please tell me if you need more, and where should I send the long list. I'm trying to sync with an Android phone connected via USB "/Volumes/MEMORYCARD/Musica". Results from a test playlist with only three songs:
FolderSync: Event raised in 'sync':
Update listeners:
State: fatal
undefined
Cancelled: undefined
GUID:undefined
Target: undefined
Profile: undefined
The leading zero in %tracknumber% seems to be a trailing zero now. My track numbers are now being written as 10,20,30 and so on. This was working prior to v3.
@derari:
There is no way to copy the source folder structure currently. I'm not sure how that should work with more complex and/or wide spread libraries, through. What folder should be seen as root? If you have
C:\Music\foo.mp3 C:\Music\bar.mp3 C:\Music\foo\bar.mp3 [...] C:\foo.mp3 D:\Download\bar.mp3
as Files in library, what folder structure should get restored? The problem is that a AddOn should work with every library that may exist, so I don't have plans to implement that.
The reason for the lower case is the way Songbird handles files internal: on Windows, they are lower case. Because FolderSync uses the filenames in Songbird to get and copy the files, FolderSync generates lower case filenames. On Linux (Mac?) there is case sensitivity and it don't change case afaik. If you use a filename schema, filenames will have correct case on all plarforms (at least those I tested :P).
@alytes:
I need some more messages... maybe about 5 or 6... you can post them here or write me an eMail ([my username here]@abwesend[dot]de).
@m771401:
Many thanks for reporting, you spotted a bug! Fixed in 3.0.0.1.
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg
Glad I could be helpful.
Thanks for being The Squasher of Bugs.
I downloaded this to sync my ipod classic (not even sure it it'll work) but the node isn't showing up under library/downloads and I don't know how to access the interface other than mess with the settings-please?
@Sweeta:
Afaik there is no Rockbox avaiable for iPod classic, and iPods can't get filled like MSC mp3 player, so FolderSync might not work.
You should see FolderSyncs node under Downloads in Library section of sidebar (left area of Songbird). If you installed FolderSync and the node doesn't show up it would be great if you open the Error Console (Tools menu) and post messages (especially the red ones) here.
I did look in the error console but there weren't any errors listed, so I figured it was just my feather setting messing it up, I have some warning notices that say "unknown property (height, border, parsing value, etc)" and "unknown parsing value for property filter" both of which declaration dropped
@Sweeta:
It would be great if you try opening a new tab, with
about:config
as url. Accept the warning and search for
extensions.foldersync.debugLevel
and change it to 5. After that, restart Songbird and look for errors again.
It might also help if you post you Songbird Version (Philips Songbird 1.9.0 or Songbird 1.9.3 are current ones afaik) and OS. Thanks!
There are 40 tags with extensions.FolderSync.x but no .debug. It may just be because I have an older version 1.7.3 I don't want to update because I like the add-ons I have that won't work with the newer version.
Thanks alot for your help
@Sweeta:
On Foldersync 1.* and 2.* there ist no node in service pane, it is avaiable in the content pane (under a playlist / website): Use the change content button to access it. FolderSync 3 is avaiable for 1.9.0+ only, because it uses some new features.
I have a problem with syncing on OS X 10.6.7 and the latest Foldersync and Songbird.
When I plug in my mp3 player and start the syncing process, ALL the files on the player are deleted and then copied again. Like I said, this happens to all the files, whether they have been changed on the computer or not.
This only happens, when I un- and the replug my player to the computer.
Is there any solution to this?
Ok I just detected the problem:
I had to add the player to the ignore list of Songbird. Now everything works fine.
Btw this plugin is one of the finest that exist for Songbird. Thanks for developing and maintaining it!
@wurst:
Thanks for reporting this issue, created a "Issues with other AddOns" list in the description. You're welcome!
wtf why does songbird create a folder for every artist and a folder within the artists folder for every album??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? this makes it totally useless. SYNCHRONISING means the devices both have the amse folders, with the same maps. how am i supposed to play my music while its devided to all diferent maps, while the scource was one map? why hasnt it got one identical map with identical content?
is it normal to have yourslf selecting every song manually while u r busy and listenng music? NO DONT THINK SO. should i destroy all data about all songs and call them the same artist and same album? NO !@#$%^& way! im better off synchronising manually by windows explorer one song at the time :S
@user314159265358979A:
I'm sorry, but I don't think I understood your comment. I assume you wrote something like
FolderSync saves songs at sync target as "<artistname>/<albumname>/<trackname>" with structure enabled in profile settings. All music files I have imported into Songbird's library are in one folder. Is there a way to change the way the structure is created?
If that was your question the answer is quite simple: Yes, go to structure tab of profile preferences (in FolderSync's tab via the button with a arrow down) and change the schema.
Let me know weather my assumption was right or you have another question.
Hi fellows,
I have a problem, I couldn't see Foldersync window. My songbird is 1.9.3 / 1959 version and Foldersync is 3.0.0.1. Any idea what can be happening? It is installed, activated but I couldn't even see the name in the center bottom panel menu where it used to be before ?
Please help. Mailto: nicolas.vasseur@ymail.com. Thanks.
@NICVAS:
FolderSync changed the UI while the update to 3.0.0.0. FolderSync 3 is avaiable through the left sidebar, in the Library area. You should see FolderSync avaiable under Music, Video and Downloads.
The UI changed to give FolderSync more space, so you can now use your panes as you like while syncing, there is no need for FolderSync to stay open. If FolderSync is working, the FolderSync logo rotates, and after a Sync is completed, you get a Message. Feel free to switch to FolderSync anytime to see the current status of a running sync or to sheudle another sync to start after the current sync is completed (this replaces the old one-click sync).
Did that help you finding it, or is it missing there, too?
@rsjtdrjgfuzkfg
What a strange name !!
Many thanks to U. It was my problem.
Cheers
Thanks for the great add-on. I am looking to sync playlists as .m3u files too, but I cannot find that option. In fact, I saw the feature-rich interface here: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/User:Rsjtdrjgfuzkfg/FolderSync_Manual/FolderSync_Manual_English/4._Preferences#Write_M3U-Playlists in a previous version, but I do not see almost any of those features.
I am running Songbird 1.9.3 on Ubuntu 10.10 (per this installation: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Songbird#Installing%20Songbird%20with%20a%20Script)
Ah, I have found those features. It is necessary to press the down arrow next to the profile selection drop-down box.
@intellec7:
While rewriting the whole AddOn (Version 3.0.0.0+) I changed the UI quite a bit, but all features you can see in old FolderSync versions are still avaiable. The new help isn't written yet, but should document all features again.
how do you downlowed songs to my mp3 player
@Eddie:
Depending on your Operating System, ensure you can access your mp3 player. Most likely you just have to plug in the mp3 player, and you should be able to access it. Windows only: ensure your player has a drive letter (for example 'D:') in Windows Explorer. If it has no drive letter, your player is most likely a MTP player, which can be synced with Songbird via MTP Device Support. Some players can be set to MSC mode (with drive letter) via changing the device's driver, look into the manuals of the player for that.
After you ensured your player is accessible through FolderSync, you open FolderSync's tab and set up a sync, using a folder on your player (for example: "D:\Music", "/media/player/Music", depending on your OS, the folder must exist). The profile part of the manual isn't written yet, so if you need help for a specific preference feel free to ask.
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hannes_riehl
perfect!
finally I can sync my mp3-player with songbird.
just one thing I noticed:
you can not sync with the root folder of a device.
you have to create a folder.
Hannes