Hello !
First I want to thank the developers of MC, i use mc 13 and is one of the best players out there !
im here to talk about the sync experience that i have with my sony ericsson walkman phone (A2 plataform):
Advantages:
1.- It detects and handle as portable device very well
2.- Music sync & transcode from flac to mp3 is excellent, cover art is shown when i play the transcoded synced files and all is ok!
3.- Photo sync is also great, and no errors.
4.- When the re-sync times comes, it shows correctly the files already in the device and the new files to transfer, all OK.
Issues:
1.- MC sync the downloaded podcasts to the device well, but it does as if it were normal music, sony ericsson phones have a special folder called "Podcast" and allow some special operation to the files in there, so would be nice an option to sync podcast to a custom folder on the portable device . Definetly semc users will be grateful.
2.- My library is mainly on flac, mp3's (wich i cant find on flac) and some m4a's from itunes store. I use direct show filter to play and convert the m4a files, but no cover art support in the final transcoded synced file.
3.- Photo Sync is properly done if i sync without any resize option applied. (the phone in this case can handle the photos by its tags and keywords) but if i select any jpg resize option the phone cant handle the pic anymore. (it can play the pic but cant browse it by its tags)
Questions:
1.- I see the option to transcode & sync files with an external encoder, i want to use nero aac, since i think aac vbr files are better quality than mp3's, but my guess is that resultant files will be coverart-less and maybe with any metadata. Any Advanced user who can help me here?
2.- Why MC dont use its own aac decoder engine like winamp or other players do?
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Well thanks for read !! i appreciate any help =D
PS. Im available for testing if you need !