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MC iTunes Synchronizer (using MC with an iPhone or iPod Touch) [v6.0.2]
nitz369:
Well that would be good too, but I want to get this thing to work 1st. So now I am lost as to what to do. It still will not sync.
used /Playlist:"iTunes\iTunes" to open program, and yes I have a playlist group underneath the playlist heading in MC labeled iTunes and a playlist inside there labeled iTunes, again this is just being used for my troubleshooting purposes in order to get this to work.
nitz369:
OMG! It works!
Stupid mistake was stopping it, in Itunes synchcronizer I had mp3,flac instead of mp3;flac.
Wow that was dumb!
Thanks for the help, now its time to perfect this and get my phone full up.
glynor:
--- Quote from: MrC on January 13, 2013, 10:15:42 pm ---There is another one, but it is in the beta group and I don't know if you can read it. I'm going to leave the link below, in the hopes that the thread can be moved into the MC18 area - there's nothing beta about the thread:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=71377.0
--- End quote ---
That thread was the lynchpin for me getting MCiS set up the way I have it now. It would be VERY GOOD if Jim or someone moved that to the public board (nudge).
Also, you can automate the sync to your handheld, but you can only automate one. So, on my server, the only Handheld I have added is one called iTunes that syncs my whole master iTunes MCiS "device" over to my "iTunes Media" folder. Then, in Windows's Task Scheduler, I have it run:
mc18.exe /mcc 23015, 0
Twice daily. It works beautifully, but I can't add additional Handhelds to that copy of MC or it could get messed up, and I can't (easily) have a second, separate list for something else (I'd like to have one that syncs my entire music Library over to my mac, for example).
I really, really, really wish there was a "named handheld" /Sync command line option for MC18.exe.
PS. And, while you're at it, I'd love a /silent option too that keeps it from showing the sync Action Window (maybe unless there are errors). Every time I use MC on my server machine, I have this:
simonmason:
Is this built in sync directly to a device hooked to the machine via USB? I still prefer the MCIS approach as it can run unattended - sync to iTunes which then distributes the information to all of my attached handhelds over wifi. I did need to get another small utility (iTunes Folder Watch) that watches music folders to ensure that iTunes has any new music that I add to JRiver. Seems to work.
glynor:
--- Quote from: simonmason on January 17, 2013, 07:54:30 am ---Is this built in sync directly to a device hooked to the machine via USB?
--- End quote ---
No.
I'm syncing to a folder on my hard drive, and then using MCiS to sync the contents of that folder to my iTunes. I do this so that:
1. It doesn't matter what source format my files are in in MC. I have a wild mixture of MP3, APE, FLAC, and other esoteric file formats stuffed in there. This Handheld sync converts them all to "High Quality Portable" MP3 into an iTunes_Media folder on my M: drive (which is not "watched" by MC itself). The nice thing about using MC's Handheld engine to do this is that you can tell it to sync "High Bitrates and Unsupported Formats". That way, my M4B audiobooks stay in the nice, iDevice-friendly M4B source format (they're just copied over intact), while FLAC gets auto-converted to LAME -v5 MP3, and higher-quality MP3s from Amazon or whatever get "downscaled" to the more-iDevice-storage-size-friendly MP3 version as well.
2. iTunes doesn't get to "touch" my real source files ever, preventing it from mucking about with my tags, or otherwise doing nefarious things with the files.
This does, of course, "cost" the extra disk space for the duplicates. However, even with ~60k files, since I use the "High Quality Portable" settings in the sync (which is good enough for a portable device hooked up to my car stereo), it works out to less than 1/2 a TB, which is well worth it for me.
I'm finally writing up an in-depth description of my system, which I'll be posting over on the iDevices board when it is done (and I'll update this post with the link when I finish, so check back).
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