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[tessa]

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

[olarte]

You are absolutely right about the corruption.

Re-initialize the Ipod,

UNINSTALL Itunes, and use MC exclusively.

Use the latest build of MC.

I have no problems with COver Art, Lyrics and Photo albums syncing to the Ipod.

It took me a few tries until I did it with 11.1.165 (I think) and re-initialized twice... for some strange reason (probably my fault).

Now I'm slowly filling in my ipod with clean tracks that have been updated with covers and lyrics...

[msnell]

I had this issue a couple months back when I bought my iPod. I loaded it with MC. When I loaded iTunes and opened up my iPod contents, the album artwork became scrambled (wrong picture coming up on screen). The fix was to not use iTunes. I took it off my system and that was the end of it - no big deal.

Now that iTunes 7.0 is out, MC developers may need to look at a better fix. The iPod Updater tool for upgrading your firmware and restoring your iPod has been discontinued from what I can tell. That functionality has been built into iTunes 7.0. I loaded iTunes 7.0 and once again it screwed up my MC loaded files. These two programs are going to have to find some way to co-exist.

I would be happy to provide any other information if anyone is listening...

[SwellGuy]

We're looking into the cover art scramble now. We will also take a look at the photo albums problem.