After I completed my first sync, MC did infact delete all but one of my videos and added some new photos to the ipod. When I tried it out, the menus were moving very slowly and some very strange stuff was happening.
So I reinitialized the iPod and started from scratch. To test the build, I uploaded the following:
1. A playlist of Audible books
2. A playlist of podcasts
3. A playlist of regular audio (mp3s with artwork)
4. A playlist of videos
5. A playlist of photos
Here are my observations. The audible books, podcasts, and audio work great. The videos again were listed as "File not supported" which was not the case in build .97. I was able to get one file to upload on my first sync, and I noticed that I had listed its File Type as "m4p" rather than "mp4" like the others. When I changed all my video to "m4p" MC immediately put the files in que to upload. Once they were on the ipod, they all worked fine. (I have not yet tried the m4v files from iTunes with DRM--I will check those next.)
As for the photos, all of the images in the selected playlist uploaded fine. However, when I looked at them on the ipod I notice two things. First, they were not organized in any way. The name of the playlist was not listed, nor were they organized by album or artist tag. When I uploaded photos with iTunes, it would group them by the windows folder they were stored in, so there was a way to organize them in managable groups. That was not the best solution, but better than nothing at all. I would love to organize them by smartlist, or with the People, Places, or Events tags.
The second thing I notices was the way certain pictures were displayed. If a picture was oriented in the "landscape" style, it would fill the whole screen, just as it did when uploaded with iTunes. But if the picture was oriented in the "portrait" fashion, the picture would be thinner and not take up the whole window. That is also normal. The difference is that these pictures used to be centered in the window. Now they are justified to the left. I think it looks better when they are centered.
That is all for now. Great work! I am very excited about what comes next.
Micah