I just got the new ipod video (which is very cool, btw) and tried to put photo albums on the ipod using itunes (as I did not initially see a comparable way to do this in MC). In itunes, you point itunes to a set of folders on your PC and this folder structure is duplicated on the ipod. But regardless of if I synced on itunes first (just photos, no music) and then MC or vice versa, I experienced problems.
1. Initialize in MC
2. Sync photos in itunes (6.0.4)
3. Sync music in MC (11.1.163)
I see the lyrics on the songs and the album art fine but my photo albums have been wiped.
1. Initialize in MC
2. Sync music in MC
3. Sync photos in itunes
The album art is mixed up -- some albums are correct, others have the wrong picture. And the lyrics are gone. The album art being wonky, I could sorta see why that would happen but the lyrics was a bit odd......
The workaround I'm using is to go into MC and set album on the files to be the folder I want them in on the ipod. This works pretty ok. Thought I would mention this for others who want to do the same thing.
Also, it seems that going back and forth between itunes and MC corrupts the database. I've seen other weird behavior when i was doing that. I try to do everything in MC... but it would be nice if they didn't get in each others' way.
Tessa