Hi all,
Is there any known solution to sync music playlists between a music player running on the desktop and an application running on an android phone? Like, you make a playlist in amarok, next your phone, while it’s in the same network (home wireless for example) puls the files that are in the playlist and creates a playlist with the same content. Im having in mind something like spotify or google play music just without a server, some local solution.
Has anyone experience with this kind of functionality?
Regards,
Damir
On Sun, 03 Apr 2016 10:06:01 +0000, dporobic wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there any known solution to sync music playlists between a music
> player running on the desktop and an application running on an android
> phone? Like, you make a playlist in amarok, next your phone, while it’s
> in the same network (home wireless for example) puls the files that are
> in the playlist and creates a playlist with the same content. Im having
> in mind something like spotify or google play music just without a
> server, some local solution.
>
> Has anyone experience with this kind of functionality?
>
> Regards,
> Damir
Assuming the same playlist can be used on your phone, you could use btsync
to sync the directory between your phone and your desktop.
Jim
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That would required the songs to be in the same folder which is not a problem on the mobile device but on the desktop you have the files across many folders. Maybe creating a temp folder there the desktop would move the files when added to a playlist but I’m not sure if that is a function supported by most players.
I’m thinking about write some middleware application, or amarok plugin, I don’t know yet but just want to avoid me inventing the wheel again 
On Mon, 04 Apr 2016 18:56:01 +0000, dporobic wrote:
> hendersj;2773287 Wrote:
>>
>>
>> Assuming the same playlist can be used on your phone, you could use
>> btsync to sync the directory between your phone and your desktop.
>>
>>
>>
> That would required the songs to be in the same folder which is not a
> problem on the mobile device but on the desktop you have the files
> across many folders. Maybe creating a temp folder there the desktop
> would move the files when added to a playlist but I’m not sure if that
> is a function supported by most players.
You’d have to preserve the paths in any event, if you don’t have the
files and playlist in the same directory - so you’d have to mirror the
entire Linux directory structure on your phone - which isn’t really
practical.
You could also link the files from wherever to where they are - and it’s
possible that the sync would sync the file rather than the link.
Easier just to create a filesystem structure that is simpler and sync
what you want.
> I’m thinking about write some middleware application, or amarok plugin,
> I don’t know yet but just want to avoid me inventing the wheel again 
Sure, something like that could be created - but you asked for a solution
to that problem, and I provided one. 
Jim
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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For now I’ve created a script that creates a tmp folder with symbolic links to all songs and then syncs the content with the phone via ssh and rsync.
Github link:
https://github.com/damirporobic/syncm
Unfortunately the paths have an url encoding so I have to normalize them first, therefor the url_encode file is used.
Maybe somebody will find it useful.
The Amarok plugin is scheduled for when I have more time
Regards,
Damir