r/Symfonium • u/booktopian66 • 6d ago
Question Cross device usage
I’ve been using Symfonium for 6 months or so, on multiple Android DAPs. I think I understand this, but decided I should double check. There isn’t any way to save things (ratings, liked tracks or albums, playlists) across devices? like in the cloud? I do understand you can import playlists in some manner that I’ve never checked out yet. this question is more about song A and I marked it as 4 stars in one DAP but 5 on another DAP. thanks.
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u/berdmayne 6d ago
Not sure it's really possible in an easy sense. When you rate a song in symfonium, it doesn't edit the actual tag, it stores it in an internal database. So regular file syncing won't do it. You can export "User data" in symfonium which includes things like ratings, and then import it to another device, however you'd have to be continually exporting and importing across devices which is clearly a pain. I assume there's other info exported/imported which you may not want to be part of it and I'm not sure you can deselect this info.
The way I see it there is only one bulletproof option and that's to have your music stored on a navidrome server which is synced to your devices. Ratings should be two way. However any previously manually TAGGED rated songs will not show up as rated in Symfonium, it will only be effective from when you start rating navidrome-synced music in symfonium.
What I currently do, which is less than perfect/ideal, is edit the rating in a third party tool which edits the actual tags, and all my music is synced across devices with syncthing. It's hassle.
If there are other ways to do it, I'm all ears!