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[cncb]

I have been having problems syncing my Zen Vision (MC v11.1.200).  It seems to think a different number of files need to be synced each time even after the sync "finishes".  For example, I ran the complete sync and closed down MC.  I restarted MC and it said 500 files still needed to be synced?  I then restarted MC again and it said 600 files needed to be synced??  I also noticed it put a few WMA files in the "data" directory on the Zen?

So, I thought I would make things easier by creating an alternate library of converted files (reduced from WMA lossless) so that I would only have to upload each time and not redo the conversions.  There seems to be a few problems with this approach:

1) I have my folder structure as "album artist (auto)/album" but when converting formats there only seems to be a default option of using "artist/album" when moving the files?  Why isn't it possible to set the specific folder structure like everything else?

2) Once I get all the files converted is there an easy way to "copy" playlists using the new folders?  It looks like I might have to export the playlists and edit the playlist files manually?


Has anyone used this approach successfully?  Thanks.

[SwellGuy]

Are you syncing a Smartlist?

[cncb]

Are you syncing a Smartlist?

Yes, but one that includes certain genres so it does not change the number of tracks between syncs.

[cncb]

Part of the problem seems to be that it is doing funny things with album names.  For example, I have an album named "... Hits".  It seems to transfer the album as just "Hits" and then when I go to resync it puts "... Hits" in the queue again?

[cncb]

Any word on the album naming issue??

[cncb]

It would be nice to be able to sync my Zen Vision successfully.  Some assistance, please?

[SwellGuy]

We aren't able to reproduce this. You may want to give MC 12 a try - it has two features that could help you...

1) We've added a handheld converted file cache that keeps copies of the converted files to speed up syncing. You won't have to maintain the alternate library you set up.

2) We fixed a bug that was doing some synchronization evaluations on the original file instead of on the converted file.

Let us know if you have any luck with this.