Syncing music with my android phone

For may years I have just used Windows Media Player(WMP) to sync all my non-Apple music devices and for the most part it does an OK job, but recently I wanted to sync a daily reading plan to my phone and I ran into several short comings of WMP.

1. There are no playlist folders in WMP like in iTunes so managing 100s of playlists is really painful.
2. for non-MTP devices WMP  will sync the contents of the playlist but not the playlist.

The next thing I tried is Media Monkey.  I had already been using it because it’s really good for cleaning up and organizing your media library, unfortunately the sync was worse than WMP, if I removed a playlist it would not clean up the media in that playlist that was no longer part of any other playlist.  After that I expanded my search.

App	Sync by playlist	Sync playlists	Playlist Floders
Windows Media Player	good	MTP devices only	no
Foobar 2000	one-shot, doesn’t remember what you synced	one-shot, doesn’t remember what you synced	with plugin
Songbird	with foldersync	with foldersync	with plugin
Media Monkey	partial – delete is broken		yes
Winamp			no
DoubleTwist	proprietary	proprietary	no

The FolderSync plugin to songbird is what really sold me

You select the playlist you want to sync and this config is saved as a favorite.

Under the profile section you can configure how you want it synced.  Delete all other files, make playlists, etc. etc.  Just Press the down arrow to the right of the profile line.