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Local device: media provider configuration

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Symfonium enables users to easily access, organize, play, and cast music stored on their local Android devices.

To achieve this, the software offers multiple distinct modes. However, it’s worth noting that these modes are not compatible with each other, and switching between them requires removing and reconfiguring the provider. Therefore, we strongly recommend that users carefully evaluate and select their preferred mode early on, before adding any favorites that cannot be migrated between modes.

To reduce the complexity of the different ways to access and manage your music, you just need to follow the wizard and select what best match your needs at each steps.


Local device provider media access selection screen

Local device provider folder and SD card access option

In this mode, Symfonium uses the Android Storage Framework to scan music files in user-specified folders. Due to Android limitations, you cannot select the root of an SD card or the Downloads folder. This mode is preferred because it supports full tag parsing and file types not natively supported by Android, such as DSF, MPC, APE, and WV.

This mode also supports external CUE files to split large audio files, and external lyrics.

In this mode, automatic sync is not available. Press the sync button manually when you add or modify songs. (Sync media provider data)


Local folder provider add folder screen

Press Add folder and add as many folders containing music as you need.


Android folder picker Use this folder button

Then press Use this folder, then next.


Local device provider Android media database option

In this mode Android finds your media files and gives the list to Symfonium, while this is faster, this is limited to media files natively supported by Android.


Android media permission grant screen

Press Grant permission to give Symfonium access to the Android music database.

You can then select how your music data is analyzed.


Local device parser selection screen

Use Symfonium’s advanced tag parser to get metadata from your files, within the limits of the files provided by Android.

Use the very limited metadata that Android provides for your files.


Artist metadata scraping option for local device provider

Select if you want Symfonium to try to find artist images and biography on Internet or not.

After the selection of this option your provider is added.


Local device provider tag cache note settings

Local device provider full settings list

Try to download artists images and biography from online sources.

Will use each songs thumbnail in list instead of the album ones. Useful for compilations if each songs have a different image. Will require more storage cache and slower syncs.

Ratings imported from media tags are normally considered as scraped ratings, enable this option to consider them user ratings.

You can select how Symfonium split the albums. Each selected option must be equals for songs to be part of the same album.

Try to find external covers like folder.jpg for albums, this slow down a little the sync process.

Try to find external lyrics (.lrc) during sync. The lyrics must be in the same folder as the song with only the file extension changed to .lrc.

You can select the minimum duration for a song to help filtering unwanted media.

You can exclude sub folders from the sync to remove unwanted data.

See Symfonium custom tag parser for all the documentation about Symfonium custom tag parser.