Hi,
Bug: When syncing a playlist, MC crashes when it is skipping files that have already been synced to the ipod.
I started with MC 9.1.275. I named my iPod as IPOD (as per a user guide I found on this forum - don't know if that's still necessary), then Initialised it in MC.
I then created a Smartlist containing 3100 tracks, right clicked on my pod, and selected Sync. Under options I chose 'Force conversion', telling it to convert my .APE files to 'Normal/High' quality VBR MP3. I told it to skip any file already of type MP3.
I then clicked go, and off it went, no problems. Eventually, 14 hours later, I needed to use MC to rip a CD. So I waited until just after it had synced a batch of files to the pod, and clicked Cancel. By this point 1,700 of my 3,100 files had been uploaded.
A little later I then tried to restart the resync- I went through exactly the same procedure as above. When starting to sync I noticed it was saying something like 'Skipping XXX.APE', which I assumed was because that file was already on the pod. It did a few of these, then MC disappeared completely - no crash or debug message, it just went.
I repeated this many times, every time with the same result. I then upgraded to MC 9.1.279, but the problem exists there too.
Eventually I have been forced to create a new smartlist which doesn't have any of the music that's already on the pod, and that now seems to be syncing ok again.
Any help much appreciated!
Tom
PS. The method I used to create the smartlist of stuff not on the pod, was pretty crap - I simply noticed that the files on the pod had been uploaded and that the last artist was 'L', and therefore manually created the new smartlist for all artists with a name starting with M onwards. What I Really wanted to do was create a smartlist that said 'exclude any file copied to ipod' - is there a way to do that?
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Topic: iPod Bug in .279 - crashes MC when skipping already synced files (Read 850 times)