01-05-2022, 02:24 PM
Thanks to all who responded, I now have learned about features in MobileSheets Pro that I did not know existed. They have improved my workflow considerably.
I decided there were too many duplicates, which I had been living with for months, so I decided to bite the bullet and start completely over. My primary music source is on my Mac, and it's backed up in five geographically diverse places. Due to the way its filesystem works, there can be no duplicates there. The music that goes onto my music display totals 5GB, which I copied onto a USB hard drive. I plugged the drive into my HP x360 14a Chromebook, cleared its database in MSP, and did 12 BatchImports of 1427 pieces in 12 folders (which map to Genres in MSP). Checks of Genres and songs looked fine. I then used SyncLibrary to transfer that music library to the other two tablets (after clearing their libraries). Due to the limits on networking on the Chromebook, I made the other tablet be the server and the Chromebook be the client, syncing Client->Server. This all went without a hitch, and tests showed the music was there correctly.
This went an order of magnitude faster than my old method using the Companion app running in a Windows virtual machine on my Mac. I update the tablets every few weeks with a handful of new songs. I'll put them onto a USB thumb drive and use Import/SystemFileBrowser to import them (thanks Mike!). So it looks like I may not need the Companion app at all -- I'll keep it just in case....
Again, thanks to all who responded. This community is great!
I decided there were too many duplicates, which I had been living with for months, so I decided to bite the bullet and start completely over. My primary music source is on my Mac, and it's backed up in five geographically diverse places. Due to the way its filesystem works, there can be no duplicates there. The music that goes onto my music display totals 5GB, which I copied onto a USB hard drive. I plugged the drive into my HP x360 14a Chromebook, cleared its database in MSP, and did 12 BatchImports of 1427 pieces in 12 folders (which map to Genres in MSP). Checks of Genres and songs looked fine. I then used SyncLibrary to transfer that music library to the other two tablets (after clearing their libraries). Due to the limits on networking on the Chromebook, I made the other tablet be the server and the Chromebook be the client, syncing Client->Server. This all went without a hitch, and tests showed the music was there correctly.
This went an order of magnitude faster than my old method using the Companion app running in a Windows virtual machine on my Mac. I update the tablets every few weeks with a handful of new songs. I'll put them onto a USB thumb drive and use Import/SystemFileBrowser to import them (thanks Mike!). So it looks like I may not need the Companion app at all -- I'll keep it just in case....
Again, thanks to all who responded. This community is great!