Steve,
I dunno what to tell you to help fix this one. I don't have "transfer all files" selected (I have more than 20gb of music). I
do have "delete files not in list" and "update tags" selected. When I load up MC, i delete the "auto smartlist" groups (they always appear again the next time I load up,
), and then hit "Select all" in the sync dialogue.
I'm synching playlists and smartlists; mostly smartlists, though. I do the sync, it breezes through in a minute or so, since it isn't updating much music. When it's done, everything seems perfect when examined via MC. No errors are reported during sync. This is true for .113, .112, and .111, I believe.
When I unplug, there are no playlists. Just that blank playlist with no contents. All the music seems to be on the iPod (course, with 3000 songs, it's hard to tell if something's missing). When I plug back in, quite a few songs have their "Playlist" column blank, even though I know that the only way they could have made it onto the iPod is because they were on a playlist.
Note: before I unplugged, all songs in MC's right pane claimed membership to at least one playlist. After unplugging and replugging, a handful of them, seemingly at random, no longer claim playlist membership.
The only way to get playlists on my iPod is to format for MC and then resync. I've tested this in a closed environment... not plugging into anything but my own computer. Just this afternoon, I formatted, synced, was happy. Plugged, resynched, was sad.
I can't remember which build started showing this problem, but it didn't used to do it. I'll try it again with the "update tags" option off, but there's no way that I will try it with the "delete files not in list" option off... it would be counter to synching in the first place.
Sorry if that last bit was a bit off-color... I just dinna know how else to say it, and I've been in a bad mood for weeks now (though it's in no way anyone here's fault. family thing.)