One thing I've always wished I could do in MC is sync some playlists with my iPod, and leave any other playlists on my iPod untouched. I sync a few small podcast playlists every day, but my music could go a week or more without needing to be synced. My iPod music is a random subset of my whole collection, so there's a lot of turnover whenever I sync my iPod. With MC 11, my only options are to:
1. Manually drag the few files I'm adding. This doesn't work because I can't then get them into my podcast playlists. Even if I could, it would be tedious.
2. Sync only my podcast playlists (unchecking "delete from handheld any items not in sync list"). This won't work because it nukes all my music playlists. (Songs are still there, but no playlist structure.)
3. The option I actually use: Sync all my iPod playlists every day, which makes syncs take much longer than they need to. This is usually tolerable with my 4Gb iPod, as a sync takes about 20-25 minutes, but I've held off buying a larger capacity iPod because that will just increase the daily sync time beyond the time it takes me to get ready in the morning.
What I want is to be able to select certain playlists to sync with the option to "Retain playlist information for unsynced tracks". Or something like that. Does MC 12 add this, or anything else that will accomplish what I'm hoping for here? Thanks.