Auto sync program?

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Im not 100% sure if this belongs in this category, if so please move.

I’m curious if a program exists that can auto sync my main music folder with my DAP when I plug it into my computer. I remember back in the iPod days, that was one feature of iTunes I really enjoyed. Would be ideal if unlike iTunes, you still have the ability to drag and drop. I do know some python so I’m sure i could make this happen with a little time and effort, but if something already exists that can do this that would be ideal. Figured it couldn’t hurt to ask here. Thanks!

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Doing it in python is pretty easy but if you want a less hassle solution this is a pretty great piece of software

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Ahhh cool this looks like it may be exactly what i want. Will definitely check this out when I get out of work. Although, now that im thinking about it, i may try and do it with python just for my own personal practice.

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You gotta go old school my bro! Dedícate a folder on your pc for new music and don’t move it out of there until you pass it to al your devices. Also personally I use a program called “sendanywhere” to pass it through wifi and make it painless. Cross platform application that’s been my main reason for using Android for daps still. I’ll probably write an article or at least a post about the full Android moves I use in case anyone finds it useful

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From my experience that becomes a hassle real quick and absolutely sucks to do with anything that’s running fat32 or exfat file systems

Ah yes wireless transfer is also an option although that assumes you have a dap that has wifi and proper android

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Its funny as i took two thumb drives and did one exfat and the other ntfs figuring there would be literally no perceived difference. NTSF 100% loads faster on the lumin when browsing. I figured exfat would win since its made more for thumb drives and low power processors but nope.

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I’ve been down some rabbit holes with this since I ran a home backup server for many years and needed bi directional sync and all sorts. Tried many things. The one I like most the last few years is Syncthing. Open source, platform independant and able to allow syncing across WAN networks privately - you can sync things to your phone for example - simply by setting up the folders you want and then dropping things in them.

Works particularly well on Android and Linux but is also happy on windows. Small enough to run on a Pi. A friend had it setup on her phone integrated with Tasker to do an auto sync when connecting to the home network and then suspending when not to save battery.

Uses a mini webserver front end and allows for Https connection.

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When your music is always in the same folder and your are on Windows:

robocopy <Source Path> <Destination Path> /e /W:3 /R:3

#Note:
# Flag explanation:
# /e - all directories, including empty ones
# /W - Wait between retries
# /R - number of retries
#With /XD <folder/file> you can exclude paths or files

For example, it would look like so:

robocopy H:\Projects\SA Y:\Misc\SA /e /W:3 /R:3

Documentation

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