Playlists on USB Drive

[Aurum]

Hi all,

I wanted to have my music library avail on my USB drive when Sirius expires or my cell phone dies. Sync 3 detected my USB thumbdrive no problem but it sorted all the music into a single directory.

On the drive, I had the music sorted in directories under specific playlists.

Is there any trick to getting Sync to recognize playlists on USB devices?

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[JoeySperz]

I was wondering the same thing, did a quick Google search, and found this: http://www.focusfanatics.com/forum/...-instructions-myford-sync-systems.html#/enter

Looks like winamp will do the job. I just bought a 64gb low profile flash drive for $17 on amazon specifically for this reason. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00FJRS6QY/ref=ya_aw_od_pi?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[Aurum]

Did this actually create playlists using .m3us in Sync 3? Thought the system was different than MFT and Sync2.

 

[Redraven571]

There's an free app you can DL called Playlist Creator that works very well for creating .m3u playlists on a flash drive with a Windows pc. If you're trying to do it with a Mac, it's a pain.

 

[Sixth]

instead of a playlist, create a folder, put all the songs you want into that folder. you can play the songs in that folder as if it was a playlist.

 

[Clump]

The way that Sync identifies songs, albums, artists, genre, etc. is by ID3 tags. If you don't have good tags you will end up with everything looking like 1 big folder. With proper tags you can dump all the songs in the root folder and Sync will set them up as albums.

There are a bunch of ID3 tag programs around. It's easiest to set them up when you rip CDs. For ripping I use dBpoweramp. It's not free, but it is very powerful. You can control how it builds the tags as it rips.

If you download songs from Amazon they will have proper tags. I imagine itunes does too, but never bought any from there. For messing with them after the fact I use a free program called MP3tag.

I haven't used playlists, but the foundation of it all is proper tags. Once you have that playlists should not be a problem.

I hope this helps. If you need some specifics there are a bunch of people on here who understand this stuff.

 

[bobinnj]

And for anyone who cares, Sync 3 can play high bitrate Flac files. I was dreading having to convert everything to mp3, but I was able to dump my library to a USB drive and I can play everything I have on my computer. Hell, I was even able to plug a 1 tb hard drive, and that worked as well.

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