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NOMAD JUKEBOX / ZEN
Robert Taylor:
I've just done some testing with MC V 10.0.77, and Nomad plugin V 9.0.36 (which was the version which was downloaded by clicking the link in this thread).
It seems to perform very nicely still. Memory usage and CPU were the sort of thing I would expect, and time taken to transfer to the Nomad, using Drag & Drop on the AW, or Send To menu, were quite acceptable.
The progress bar in the AW seems to have a mind of it's own, however, and doesn't seem to bear any relationship with what's happening with the transfer. ie. it starts being redrawn at apparently random intervals. I'm not sure whether it's supposed to be showing the progress of each track (which it doesn't), or the progress of the transfer as a whole (which it also doesn't).
Deleting tracks from the Nomad seems significatly faster than the last build I tried.
It's getting better all the time...
Robert Taylor:
Now, this is wierd!
Re: My previous thread's reference to the progress bar with the mind of its own...
I've just done two lots of transfers, and the progress bar seems to behave perfectly normally (ie. it shows the progress of the transfer as a whole).
At first I thought it might have been because I usually transfer multiple complete albums over, sa this time I transferred a single album, but I just checked it again with multiple albums, and it worked perfectly.
Maybe I better check where those mushrooms came from that we had with our dinner...
BTW I have just done some testing on my other machine via USB, and it's even faster!
LonWar:
Hey Steve,
I am at home all day today!!
Well here is the testing results.
Deleting Tracks, All is great until the deleting is finished, Ir cycles the track #'s, then all of the tracks disapear, and then it cycles again, then all is ok... It does this everytime I delete anything.
Loading tracks, This seems to be good and fast... The status bar is a wee bit weird.
Starts off blanc, and when a track uploads the status bar goes up a bit, then when the nest track starts to upload the status bar goes back to empty. However you do not have double cycling here.
Uploading tracks that are already there: Looks like it's gonna do something, then just cycles through the tracks and display's them, Does not ask wether to skip duplicates or re write. (Used to do this?)
Synching Files, This is kind of confusing as it only asks you to sync Recently Played, Task - Possible Duplicates, Top Hits.
This should also have a All Library check.
Other then that it works very well...
Squanderbug:
Just as an aside, what should synchronise actually do?
For example, if I synchronise a 'recently imported' playlist with new files, then it acts the same as dragging the files to the hand held and transferring them that way, except the playlist is also created on the Zen.
However, what does it do with existing files? I'd like to use synch 'all music' to allow the Zen to reflect any tag changes I made in MC. i.e. The file would remain the same, but the tags would update on the player. However, when I tried this, I found I had some duplicate files. I must admit I didn't let the synch run the whole way through as I din't have the time to wait for it, and the plug-in has been updated since, so it might have changed.
So, if synch encounters an existing file what does it do?, and then if it encounters that same file with tag changes what does it do?
Sorry if I haven't explained this very well.
SteveG:
Everyone,
The plugin to use right now is 9.0.37 and is available from the MC 10 plugin page.
Lunchmeat,
Stay out of the mushrooms and please let me know if you see any more progress bar issues.
imjustagamer,
The double cycle on delete is removed in tonight's MC build. The problem was in MC, not the plugin.
I added something to the next plugin (what will be 9.0.38) that I hope fixes the progress for you.
In regards to the duplicates, one of the major changes of late is that MC checks for duplicates before ever sending anything to Nomad. If duplicates exist, MC does not send them to speed everything up. If any changes occur to the Album, Artist, Genre, Name or Track number tag, the old files will be deleted and then resent.
Synching will allow you to sync any playlists you have. You could create an 'All Music' smartilsit/playlist and that would do what you want. I will add a checkbox to send all files. There used to be one, but it was confusing for some so I removed it.
Squanderbug,
Synchronizing functions the same as dragging the files but it adds the ability to send organized groups of files (i.e. playlists/smartlists) and to group those files on the Handheld and the ability to remove files on the handheld that are not selected. If you upload or synch files that are already on the Nomad, it will not resend them if the Artist, Album, Genre, Name and Tracknumber are the same. If any of these fields change, if you are drag and dropping, the file will be resent. If you are synchronizing and you have 'Delete unselected files checked', files with different information will be removed from the portable. In both drag and drop and Synchronization, if you change a tag such as 'Composer','Comment', or 'Rating' (if your player supports these fields) and the file already exists on the Portable, the file will be removed and resent.
I hope that helps.
Steve
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