Music Sync

Music Sync

UPDATE - This introduction to Music Sync is based upon the leatest version (v 0.2) available in the market

Music Sync application will enable you to keep all your music (mp3 and m4a files) synced between all your android devices and all your desktop applications, using the dropbox official apps!

This page will introduce you to the basic of functionalities of the app. Once started the application will ask you to connect to dropbox, as shown below:

 Moreover the app will also ask you to select the folder in which to download / upload the music

 Once did so, you will se the screen below. In this you just need to press the RED dot in the middle to connect the application to your dropbox account.

 The Dropbox website / app, will ask you to grant access, as shown below:

 Once did so, you are ready to go, and you will finally see the main window of the app:

Here are present 6 possible actions. Let's see them in detail:

Pressing this button you will disconnect the app from your Dropbox account 

 Pressing this button you will start the analysis of the local music present on the device 

Pressing this button you will start to upload the music you have locally to your Dropbox account 

Pressing this button you will start to download the music you have already uploaded to Dropbox 

Pressing this button will open this online manual

Pressing this button you will enter the settings area:

In this settings page you will be able to select the folder in which Musi Sync will search for your music and download your Dropbox music. Moreover it allows you to provide an extra notification, in the Notification Bar, on Download / Upload event completion. A sample of the notification is shown in the next screenshot:

NOTE: The app will execute the synchronization ONLY through the wifi connection

NOTE: The app will follow this logic for the music upload in case of conflicting music files:

• If the song is already present in the Dropbox folder, there will be no update
• If the song is new, the local song will be uploaded to the Dropbox folder

To identify the files the app will not only look at the filename, but also at its MD5. This ensures that, in case of erroneous file renames, to ensure that two files are equals bit-by-bit. For example, if two files named: Oasis - Wonderwall (with MD5:11111) will no the the same as a file named Oasis - Wonderwall (with MD5: 111112). This means that on Dropbox you will find two different songs.

NOTE: Dropbox file naming conventions:

Music files, in the Dropbox folder, will be saved as:

filename MD5_<MD5hash>.mp3/m4a

COMING UPDATES: (In order of priority)

• Auto-Creation of a playlist for the recently downloaded music (of course with the possibility to select the "recently" part)
• Enhanced naming convention to avoid the need of MD5 hash string in the Dropbox file
• Synchronization Logs
• Playlist Support (Creation / Synchronization)
• Customizable Music File format to Synchronize

You can download the FREE app clicking the following link!

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