Winamp does not support SD card on Samsung Galaxy S

[jolux]

Winamp for Android is great, but unfortunately it does not support Wifi synchronisation from PC to the (external) SD card on Samsung Galaxy S i9000.

After synchronization from PC, Winamp stores the music files on the INTERNAL memory at /mnt/sdcard/music. But this path is the INTERNAL memory of the Samsung Galaxy S, which is very limited.

Winamp should have an option to store the music files on the EXTERNAL SD card which has more capacity and is dedicated to MP3 files on my device.

On the Samsung Galaxy S, the SD card has the path /mnt/sdcard/external_sd

Please add an option to synchronize the files on this path. Or, even better, an option for a user-defined path.

[jcott28]

I'd be curious to know if this is something that will be worked on. I have a large external SD card so I can keep my music on it and not the device itself. But now my playlists can't be copied over because they are larger than what's left on my external drive. I have a Samsung Galaxy S (TMO).

The ability to sync to the external drive is a dealbreaker unfortunately. Not a threat or anything. I really just need to know if I should keep using winamp. If it's on the radar as something that's planned to get done, I can hold out until then. But if it's not a priority I can just go back to Mixzing.

Thanks

[jolux]

No word from the Winamp team?

[dodgyracer]

I would really like to know if this this can be tweaked to allow choosable sync locations?

Can you do it via the USB cable?

Cheers Chris

[Mi Amigo]

I'm also a Samsung Galaxy S user and after jumping through all the hoops to install Winamp for Android, setting up wifi sync, etc., I was very disappointed to discover that the external SD card cannot be used.

To make matters more complicated, as has been stated elsewhere, the phone looks like a different device when connected via wifi, compared to when it is connected via USB. Therefore, if I sync up all my music and podcasts to the external SD card, then disconnect the USB cable, enable wifi on the device and sync via that connection, I get a complete duplicate set of files on the internal SD card. Obviously this is a less than ideal outcome...

I've been a fan of Winamp as a desktop application since its early days and was pleased to see the Android app appear. The wifi sync function is a great idea, but it still seems to be somewhat half-baked at the moment. I hope someone from Nullsoft / AOL will respond here to let us know whether there will be further refinements and fixes in this area in the future.

[jolux]

I am afraid that the Winamp team has no interest to reply to this topic.

I will uninstall Winamp on my Android phone and go back to MixZing.

[Mi Amigo]

Sadly I think you may be right jolux. I have yet to see a reply to any of my posts or many other bug reports, feature requests, etc. that people take the time to post on this forum. It does make you wonder what is the point of having these parts of the forum in the first place, if we are just talking amongst ourselves, with no-one from Nullsoft listening.

[DJ Egg]

Hmm, interesting. I'll forward this to the relevant dev(s). Looks like we'll need to get hold of a Samsung Galaxy S.

Wifi sync should be defaulting to the Music folder on the SD card (as it does with all other models, afaik), not internal memory.

Alas, the path isn't configurable for wifi sync, only for usb sync
(via: Winamp > Prefs > Media Library > Portables > Android/USB Drive X > Advanced tab).

[jolux]

For the developers:

The Galaxy S mounts the physical SD card on /mnt/sdcard/external_sd/ since the update to Froyo (Android 2.2).

As the path for the external SD card is different on several configurations (dependent on smartphone and Android version), an option for a user-defined path would be optimal.

Let the users decide.

[pgonza02]

I have a Viewsonic G Tablet and have the same issue.
Would like to sync to external SD card as well over WiFi.

Thanks.

[Accessory Geeks]

For the developers:

The Galaxy S mounts the physical SD card on /mnt/sdcard/external_sd/ since the update to Froyo (Android 2.2).

As the path for the external SD card is different on several configurations (dependent on smartphone and Android version), an option for a user-defined path would be optimal.

Let the users decide.

I have a Viewsonic G Tablet and have the same issue.
Would like to sync to external SD card as well over WiFi.

Thanks.

So all we have to do is change the option from Internal to SD now right?

[pgonza02]

So all we have to do is change the option from Internal to SD now right?

Not necessarily, some users/devices might not have an external SD card or people might want to organize things different and have a nested path for their media.

[pgonza02]

Hmm, interesting. I'll forward this to the relevant dev(s). Looks like we'll need to get hold of a Samsung Galaxy S.

Wifi sync should be defaulting to the Music folder on the SD card (as it does with all other models, afaik), not internal memory.

Alas, the path isn't configurable for wifi sync, only for usb sync
(via: Winamp > Prefs > Media Library > Portables > Android/USB Drive X > Advanced tab).

FYI, this path is only within the drive letter that Windows assigns to whatever the device exposes as USB storage, usually the internal SD.

[Mi Amigo]

Thanks to DJ Egg for confirming that the developers are actually reading (at least some of) what we post on this forum; that's reassuring to know.

I'll eagerly await further news on this topic, but would also like to draw the Nullsoft team's attention to another sync problem with the Galaxy S - this one has been an issue for me since the beginning. I refer to the problem of a sync process deleting and and re-copying a large proportion of existing files on the phone every time a new sync is done. Here's a thread which discusses this in more detail:

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=327794

Although the title of the thread is "Wireless sync deletes and re-syncs most existing files" I believe that this is basically the same issue that occurs when a USB connection is used. It's incredibly irritating and wastes a lot of time at every sync operation. So if you guys are going to get hold of a Galaxy S, it would be great if you could have a look at this and fix it as well.

Many thanks

[jolux]

FYI, this path is only within the drive letter that Windows assigns to whatever the device exposes as USB storage, usually the internal SD.

By the way: Windows assigns two different drive letters to the Galaxy S as USB storage. One for the internal memory, and another for the external SD card. For example, my Galaxy S shows up as drive I: (internal) and drive J: (external SD). Certainly these letters are different and depending on hardware and Windows configuration.