I just got a new MP3 player and I'd really like to get it working with MC, but I have a lot of questions about how the synchronization features work. I've tried searching the message boards for almost a week now, and while I've often found people asking some of the same questions I have, I haven't found any answers to them. Since many of those posts are months old, I'm hoping someone might be able to clear up at least some of my questions.
First of all, my setup:
Running Windows XP, I have my MC11 library set up to recognize all of the music in my "My Music" folder, which is arranged "My Music/Artist/Album/Artist-title.mp3." I am trying to synchronize this data with my iRiver H320. I currently have MC set up to use it as a hard drive recognized as a media player, and I started out by copying all of the folders in my "My Music" directory to "H:/Music/", and I created another folder "H:/Playlists/" For my playlists.
Now, my questions....
1)My "Path to detect" is set as "H:\Music\". Can anyone confirm that this is what I want?
2)What is the difference between "Default Playlist Directory" and "Playlist Filepath"? I couldn't find this anywhere in the Help files...
3)I have over 2000 files in my library, but when i click "Auto Sync Player and "My Library" when device is plugged in, I only get 400 or so files on my device. It looks like maybe it's only copying the files that are in playlists, which wouldn't be a big deal 'cause I could just create a smartlist including my entire library, but is this the way it's supposed to work?
4)If I put files on my mp3 player from another computer, and then sync it with my main computer, is there a way to get the main computer to add these files to my library, or does the sync only work one way?
5)Although all of the files on my my mp3 player are organized into folders, when i sync a playlist, it puts all the mp3's that are on the playlist in the root h:/ folder... this completely messes up the organization, is there a way to get around this?
6)As many other people have mentioned, when exporting a playlist, the entire path of the file is included (ex. "C:\Documents and Settings\..."), which obviously doesn't work on the mp3 player. I have yet been unable to find an actual solution to this problem.
I know this post is long, but thank you so much for your help!