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How to sync your RockBOX songs and playlists with any windows version!

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basilmir:
Well, i've been using this trick for some time...

It's called the Windows Briefcase... it's meant to keep things synced between your laptop and desktop using an external hdd of flash drive... in our case the RockBOX....

You can think of your computer as the "desktop" and the Rockbox software as the "laptop"... if any of the two modify or add files to the "briefcase" (your music database) windows will keep them in sync.

HOW TO DO IT:

Connect your RockBOX player... open it in windows explorer... and right click and choose "New"... instead of "New folder" choose "Briefcase" and give it a name "My portable music"....

To add songs to it... just drag and drop from ANY folder on your hdd (where you keep your music and playlists) inside your Briefcase...

Now every time a folder is modified or even added on the desktop OR any playlist you create or modify with RockBOX ... just go to the briefcase and click "Update all"... it will even keep track of the latest version of everything to make sure you have the very latest synced.

I use it all the time when i share workload on a project to make sure we have everything updated.

Happy listening...

God save all the Ipods.... from Apple :D

AlexP:
Thanks, but permanent information belongs on the wiki.  It will get lost here.

robin0800:
I think that might duplicate your music on the computer.
Using sync toy (microsoft) just points to a folder and and therfore definatly does not duplicate the folder.

basilmir:
Where exactly in the wiki should i post this information....?!


--- Quote from: robin0800 on February 03, 2008, 12:05:51 PM ---I think that might duplicate your music on the computer.
Using sync toy (microsoft) just points to a folder and and therfore definatly does not duplicate the folder.

--- End quote ---

It is not like the "alias" folders

Inside a briefcase files are actually copied there...

It goes like this: When you first create the Briefcase... all it does is make an exact duplicate of what you put in... BUT... when you sync it... if something is updated on the "desktop" it copies it to the RockBOX AND if something is modified or created in the RockBOX it copies back to the desktop...

THUS... you always have the same thing in both places but ANY modification in either of them is propagated in both.

It's even more powerfull then the ITunes database... it actually copies BACK new songs you get from others...

psycho_maniac:
its not "the RockBOX" its just rockbox.

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