Hello Steve,
thank you for fixing the issue with the playlist directory! I am really happy with my MC11 and the support that I have been recieving from you. Great job!
I have been looking into the other two issues I had with synching (some files with Id3v1 tag not showing on the playlist and some files being continusly sent to the player during every synchronization). I just wanted to document my findings for the others to see:
1. special characters like question mark "?" in MC database will be replaced by underscore "_" when transfering the files to the player. This is why MC will not recognize such files during next synching or won't create an entry in the playlist. Removing "?" and renaming the file on the computer solved the problem.
2. Id3v1 tags can store a limited amount of characters (about 30 I think), while MC database continue to store a full lenth information. That is the reason that once the file is transfered to the player MC cannot match shortened Id3v1 tag with the original name in the MC database. Again the file will transfered to the player every synch and it will not show on the playlist
3. Some non-English characters caused a similar behaviour.
So I cleaned up my database and decided not to use id3v1. that solved all the issues
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