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Title: Migrate to New Phone
Post by: drussell17 on September 19, 2022, 23:35:38

I'm about to activate a new phone.  My music is on an SD card in the old phone.  What's the simplest method to migrate AIMP?

Title: Re: Migrate to New Phone
Post by: ZeoN7 on September 20, 2022, 10:02:12

Does new phone has SD card slot?

Title: Re: Migrate to New Phone
Post by: drussell17 on September 20, 2022, 16:01:33

The new phone has an SD card slot.  And I have created the zip backup in the Music Folder and exports of the two largest playlists.

I've purchased a larger SD card since the old one was just about full.  Wasn't sure if it was better to move the SD card to the new phone or leave it in the old one and start with an empty one in the new phone.

Old phone is Moto G Power 2020.  New one Samsung A13 5G

Title: Re: Migrate to New Phone
Post by: drussell17 on September 21, 2022, 17:52:23

Tried the migration using Samsung Smart Switch.  Left the old sd card in the old phone and installed a blank one in the new.

All of the music was copied to the new SD card but several apps weren’t migrated including AIMP.

I had previously created export copies of two playlists before creating a backup zip for AIMP.
Restored the zip after installing AIMP.  All of the playlists work except the two that I had created export files for.  Tried deleting the export files and restoring again.  Same result. 

Tried creating new playlist export files in the old phone after unchecking Absolute Numeration.  Transferred using Google Drive and imported to AIMP.  Same result.

Have given up on the two broken playlists and am creating new ones.  One was quite large so I’m still interested in advice on moving that one.

My advice to others is to simply use the zip backup and restore feature in AIMP.

Dave Russell