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Post by timsheils on Feb 8, 2021 19:27:46 GMT -5
Since I know I will be forced to buy a new phone in the coming years, I hope to create long-term playlists and ratings inside GMM as I listen. It is my one and only player. Any suggestions on how to backup, every few months, my library's playlists and ratings on my Windows 10 PC to protect would be most appreciated.
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Post by GoneMAD on Feb 8, 2021 20:19:22 GMT -5
using an external app / program like musicbee is probably your best bet. Syncing is nothing i do myself so someone else here may have a better recommendation or can go into more detail
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Post by ForSerious on Feb 10, 2021 14:59:16 GMT -5
Not better, for sure.
I do it by hand every few days.
I copy the stats.xml (settings.xml too, if I make any changes to the settings) file to the SD card (because of encryption issues when trying to pull it straight from internal storage...).
Then I plug in my mobile and drag and drop it into a backup folder. I do the same thing with the smart folder.
Just this week I installed a custom version of Android onto my mobile, and was able to restore everything* except the colors of the UI theme in Gmmp.
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Post by timsheils on Feb 19, 2021 14:57:03 GMT -5
Thanks to both of you. I notice that all of the playlists I create on GMM show up in the GMM playlist folder when I examine it on Wiindows 10 explorer. Is there a way of importing these playlists to a new phone on which I have moved my music and have reinstalled GMM? That would pretty much solve my desire to create GMM playlists that I can then drag or otherwise copy over to a new phone.
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Post by GoneMAD on Feb 19, 2021 16:20:53 GMT -5
copy the contents of /storage/gmmp/playlists over to the same location on the new device. if the new devices folder structure is the same then there is no issue. If the device has a different sdcard the ID/path of the sdcard would be different but that can be fixed with a simple find/replace all using a text editor
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Post by ForSerious on Feb 19, 2021 16:22:31 GMT -5
I'm not 100% sure about the playlists, but I do know that the smart playlists can be copied over to a new device and work perfectly.
Worst case scenario, you'd have to open the playlist files and run a replace all on the song location path.
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