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zxsix:
I can confirm that the coexistence of Itunes 8 and MC 13 are not causing crashes.
At the very least, Glynor and I are managing our libraries with MC, then jockeying some things so that itunes can then sync what we managed with MC.  This method, though kludgy, is working for us until a true sync feature or plugin within MC sees the light of day.  I have to do it this way since Itunes, in all of it's inferiority, can't use my flac files (99.9% of my collection).
If I was an mp3 kinda guy, I would just point MC and Itunes at the same folder on my NAS drive.  Itunes would be used to sync to the ipod and MC would do everything else.

lalittle:

--- Quote from: zxsix on November 11, 2008, 07:37:51 pm ---If I was an mp3 kinda guy, I would just point MC and Itunes at the same folder on my NAS drive.  Itunes would be used to sync to the ipod and MC would do everything else.


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That "would" be my solution as well if it weren't for the fact that I have a LOT of audible files, which 1) don't save tags in the files themselves, and 2) are incredibly poorly tagged in many cases, particularly with "periodical" type programs which sometimes offer no specific program info in the original tags.  The upshot is that all of the important info is saved ONLY in the MC library, and therefore does not get transferred over to iTunes for syncing.  The result would be a MESS in the single "Audiobooks" folder than the iPod provides.

In other words, I'm unfortunately forced to use the same program for management AND syncing, which presents a real problem if MC doesn't continue to support iPods.

Larry

Twynns:

--- Quote from: zxsix on November 11, 2008, 07:37:51 pm ---I can confirm that the coexistence of Itunes 8 and MC 13 are not causing crashes.
At the very least, Glynor and I are managing our libraries with MC, then jockeying some things so that itunes can then sync what we managed with MC.  This method, though kludgy, is working for us until a true sync feature or plugin within MC sees the light of day.  I have to do it this way since Itunes, in all of it's inferiority, can't use my flac files (99.9% of my collection).
If I was an mp3 kinda guy, I would just point MC and Itunes at the same folder on my NAS drive.  Itunes would be used to sync to the ipod and MC would do everything else.


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Can you let us know how you're accomplishing this, either publicly or privately?  I am trying to sync iTunes w/ MC13 and have nearly my entire library in FLAC as well.  I haven't figured out a good way (or even a poor way) to sync libraries without doing it one song at a time, or using single album folders, which would take me forever...FLUKE works well for doing individual songs, but I haven't figured out how to do an entire library of 4000 titles...Any help appreciated!!!

zxsix:
3 big steps.
It involves MC's feature of syncing to a portable drive folder (use the folder that itunes expects the music files in), then using ITSFV program sychroclean feature to update your itunes database with the contents of that folder, since Itunes sucketh, and doesn't even have watch folder functionality to handle this on it's own.
Then use itunes to sync to the touch/iphone.
The glaring thing that doesn't work that I miss is there's no syncing of ratings in either direction, since itunes doesn't use the tags and only reads/stores ratings from it's proprietary database (cough) xml file.

Look at glynor's post #36 in this thread for step by step.  Ask back here if you need any clarification.

JONCAT:
I think this is what I need. Lately my sync folder when refreshed with new files, always ends up getting imported twice into my Itunes library when a add the folder manually; I've got dups using ITunes even though they don't exist on disk. I just don't know what I'm doing with iTunes which makes me hate it even more...it's so freaking limited.

dc

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