Having now reached the point where my (mostly) music will not fit onto my IPOD, I've run into some questions about how to
select which songs to sync onto my IPOD and which to skip. I've mostly just winged it in the past, choosing to sync 'All Audio', then checking
off the playlists I wanted to use on the IPOD. Now it's a different story. I've always wished I had more control over how to view and manipulate
the content of my IPOD and now it's particularly frustrating.
The way I've understood it, to pick the songs I want sync'd to my IPOD, I can:
1. select 'all audio', etc., and/or
2. create playlists/smartlists containing the songs I want, then checkmark those lists.
One of my problems, however, is that sometimes I don't actually want a new playlist on my IPOD - I just want the songs. Then it would be easier to keep the
two tasks separate - picking which songs I want on the IPOD, and picking which playlists I want to use on the IPOD. Or sometimes my playlists are in conflict
with each other - my lists pulling up random songs, for instance, fight my efforts to (easily & quickly) exclude songs by a particular group or genre. Then there
are the details I've wondered about but haven't seen here on the forum or never taken the time to really check out. For instance, if I have a song that appears
on 2 playlists, does that song get entered twice on the IPOD (essentially as 2 "different" songs) or is it entered once but with two references to it?
Anyways, I've found a lot of topics related to this, too many maybe, but I'm hoping other MC users can help.
How does everyone else handle syncing? What are the better ways to do this?