[HTC Rezound] xv-6800:
Now, THAT's really bizzare, because I'm not getting any dupes, just by connecting my phone, even though, as you know, I use HTC Sync to sync my playlists/music. I don't see how connecting using only the USB drivers would trigger something like that. But, then again, I don't see how you are able to manually copy playlists to the phone and have them work, either, because I sure can't get that to work at all!

And, FWIW, the dupes that DO occur that I mentioned above are NOT really true dupes. They are just multiple displays of them in the music app, so simply clearing media storage (not deleting the music itself) and getting the music app to a rescan the card gets rid of them. That's the same thing for you, too, right, and you only deleted everything to see if that would resolve your problem, correct?

Incidentally, it's really dumb that it's called Clear Data in Media Storage. You really aren't deleting any media, you're only deleting references to the media. It's so irritating to me that so many things on Android appear to be done so amateurishly, like the people who write some of this stuff only think one way, so things are not very intuitive or indicative of what really happens when you invoke a function, you know what I mean? (Sorry, slight rant there.)

Hey, BTW, can you open your playlist files on both your computer and phone, and show me a sample syntax of the first couple of entries, including any headers? I ask, because when I look at the .M3Us on the phone, that work and don't get deleted, they look very straightforward, yet when I make some and copy them to the phone, they don't work and get deleted. It makes me wonder if they need to look differently BEFORE the music app reads them, so the comparison of how one of your lists before and after you copy it from PC to phone might shed some light for me, because I would much rather be able to drag and drop .M3Us than have to use HTC Sync, which requires me to delete all music and playlists and re-add them again, just to add another playlist, you know what I mean?

Thanks.

BTW, the SQL database does indeed contain the instructions to what HTC Sync should do upon syncing. I just have to figure out how sync events are triggered, and how to write to the DB instructioning it as to what I want it to do, then create a utility with an interface to do that. Sort of like making a substitute interface the writes the instructions properly. I don't know if I want to go through the trouble, though, but I just might have to.

BTW, VZW made me a special deal. They told me they would give me an exception and that if I could not live with the way this thing works, given that it is a music phone, they would allow me to get another phone at an upgrade price without me having to pay any extra fees. I would consider it, but I need Outlook syncing Contact and Calendar, too, and from what I am seeing with how "UN-robust" Android seems to be, I am scared about getting another phone, only to end up having to use 3rd party sync'ing software for that, which I anticipate would be pretty spotty. I guess I could switch to an iPhone (which I really dread doing) or wait until Windows phones are back at the end of the year. That's really sad, because the Rezound really is a nice phone. :(