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MC iTunes Synchronizer (using MC with an iPhone or iPod Touch) [v6.0.2]
glynor:
--- Quote from: simonmason on February 10, 2013, 01:58:23 pm ---My playlist is in the top level of the playlists so I don't think I need to specify anything other than the name. I am syncing now, it has been running for almost two hours and has almost completed the analyze stage. There are about 32,000 files in my library. The playlist contains 130 files. This still seems excessive for this type of sync?
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Do you mean the "Loading MC Library" phase, or a later phase? The loading MC library phase is the "communicating with MC" phase. This takes a little while with my 36k item sync list, but not more than 5 minutes or so.
However, if you mean the Analyzing phase... It is slow if it is importing new files into iTunes (for the first time) or changing a lot of metadata on the ones that are there. This should only happen once per file, unless your MC library (or sync list) is changing each time you do it. Like I said above, the first time I did this, it took 16 hours or so (I don't remember, all day, all night... Maybe even two days), but subsequent syncs are much, much faster (as it only has to update changes).
To be clear: Even if the playlist only contains 130 files, iTLU will still sync the entire MC library over to iTunes itself (including files not in that list). If you don't use the command line option Prod mentioned (each time you run MCiS). Checking (or unchecking) the Playlist item from within the MCiS GUI does not remove the files from the sync list, it only removes those Playlists from being added to and maintained within iTunes.
To limit the sync list, you have to use the command line option.
However, mine can run through the analysis phase quite quickly now. In three or four minutes with 36k+ files, when only a handful changed since the last sync.
glynor:
Also, verify the Logs, and make sure you aren't getting all kinds of sync errors during that phase.
If you are using the MCiS File Key option, and your expression being used to fill the corresponding tag in MC is bad, you can have all sorts of missing files in the Log. This makes the Analysis phase go incredibly slow as well. You don't want MCiS to be trying to sync a bunch of "broken links" to iTunes. It makes it angry and slow.
If you see File Missing errors in the MCiS logs, then you need to solve that problem first.
Another thing, actually, on this prod... I think this is because you send the full list to iTunes without checking that the files exist first, so then iTunes has to figure out that they're broken and be all stupid about it. I think, it'd be WAY faster (though it might hide more problems from the users) if you first check that each file exists, and remove them from the sync list yourself if they're missing (logging the error the same way).
Probably related to the batch ingest mode stuff too. Again, might be quicker to iterate through the list and add them one by one (and you can error check as you go).
glynor:
Also, are the files that MCiS is syncing into iTunes on a slow network share or USB drive? That'll make it take forever.
Works best if the files iTunes gets to see are on a reasonably fast, local drive. If you only need 130 files, though, you can make MC sync these to a "handheld" on your local drive, and then sync MCiS to those files (using the File Key option I mentioned above, and which is explained in prod's PDF documentation).
I essentially do this with my entire MC library, and even 36k+ files only takes up ~240GB with the handheld sync in MC set to convert them to "High Quality Portable" MP3s (-v5 LAME, which is good enough for my iPhone usage).
Hedge:
I'm very interested in seeing MCiS on the OSX version.
Why not post all required imports here and I will look up which ones can be used with Mono.
Cerebro:
Good day!
I also encounter the previously mentioned error message "An error occurred filling the playlist tree." I have not changed any playlists for a while, there are no duplicates.
I am running win8, MC 18.0.144 and iTunes 11.02.026. Are there any options to troubleshoot this?
I attached a screenshot of the error message.
Thanks! Maik
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