Device is 80GB Ipod Video.
Audio library is a mix of Flac and MP3.
I've been experiencing this for several builds of MC12 beta but didn't have the time time nail it down until now.
Device is set to sync via a smartlist we'll call "X". It's the only one checked under the handheld options.
I set up the smartlist to grab a certain number of songs, which should leave me some free space to use the device as a portable hard drive.
Here's the actual syntax from smartlist "X":
[Media Type]=[Audio] [Keywords]=[IPOD] [Rating]=4-5 [Duration]=120-600 [Last Played]=>7d -[Genre]=[Guitar Gods],[Classical],[Comedy],[Soundtrack] ~mix=[b]6000[/b],2,{rating=4},1,{rating=5}
So, it starts by only selecting audio files with a specific keyword. This keyword dictates what songs can possibly be sync'd.
Then it selects only songs with a 4 or 5 star rating.
Then it filters out short and very long songs.
Then it filters out songs that have been listened to in the past 7 days.
Then it filters out a few genres.
Then it does a mix, so I should end up with a grand total of 6000 songs in any case, twice as many 4's as 5s.
When the smartlist is selected in the tree, the details shows 6000 files exactly.
Twice as many of them are rated 4, so the mix is doing it's job correctly.
Everything is perfect to this point.
Now, I want some additional smartlists to select specific genres or ratings.
ALL of these smartlists start out with the first line being Playlist is any smartlist "x".
The idea being, they'll sort and filter the files differently, but they will only include files already dictated by playlist "X" and won't cause any other files to be added to the player.
This isn't what's happening.
If I go into options and click one playlist with the following criteria:
playlistid==520900880 [Genre]=[Blues] ~sort=[Random]
It increases the amount of files it wants to sync.
Since this playlist is born out of playlist "X", I would think that no additional files would be sync'd.
Explain?