Topic: MC iTunes Synchronizer (using MC with an iPhone or iPod Touch) [v6.0.2] (Read 494462 times)

prod · « **Reply #900 on:** March 13, 2013, 01:43:58 pm »

Hi

Perhaps try installing the latest version of MC18, or if you have the latest version, re-running the setup.exe.

Cerebro · « **Reply #901 on:** March 16, 2013, 06:27:14 pm »

Thanks. All that did not help, but I found the culprit. I had updated from Win7 > Win8 and since then MCIS requires Admin rights (although my account is an Admin Account!). Heaven knows why, but I thought I share this.

Cheers

simonmason · « **Reply #902 on:** March 18, 2013, 07:56:08 am »

Has anyone tried iTunes 11.0.2?

nitz369 · « **Reply #903 on:** June 18, 2013, 09:01:50 pm »

I have read through quite a bit of this thread and cannot find if anyone has had this issue recently. Basically it is taking 3-5 minutes per song for iTunes to import.

Setup:
MCIS 6.01 Registered
MC 18
MCIS configured to import playlist only (/playlist)
MC setup to convert FLAC to mp3
iTunes 11.0.4 (used 11.0.2 before too)

Everything worked great for awhile and I cannot figured out what changed other than possibly iTunes version although I cannot remember if I had it working fast with 11.0.2 but I know the slowness was with that one too.

MCIS works perfectly, except when it goes to iTunes, iTunes takes 5 minutes to even show "importing songs" and if I click on it at it it goes Not Responding. If I leave it everything eventually works but currently it is adding 11 songs to iTunes and I am already going on 40 minutes waiting. I have a total of about 140 songs in iTunes.

Anyone?

simonmason · « **Reply #904 on:** June 19, 2013, 06:39:14 am »

I am running 6.01 Sync with 17.0.189 and latest iTunes with no problem. I couldn't say whether V18 of MC is causing the issue. However, one thing I did notice that might be helpful is that the file location caused it to slow down. I keep all of my media on a FreeNAS server attached to the network. I had to make a mirror copy locally to run the iTunes sync because it ran very slowly for some reason. MC ran fine when accessing the NAS. When I moved the files locally then the sync ran in a few minutes instead of 30-45 minutes. Hope that is helpful?

Mars · « **Reply #905 on:** September 25, 2013, 08:42:52 am »

MC 18.212 and iTunes 11.1. When I try to sync playlists from a client-server to iTunes, the only result I get are the playlists created in iTunes, but with no content. However, doing it straight from a local library, the playlists are correctly created and filled with the files.

Is it possible to sync playlists from a client-server to iTunes, or it only works for local libraries?

Thanks,

Mars

prod · « **Reply #906 on:** September 26, 2013, 02:17:45 pm »

Hi Mars, just local libraries.

Mars · « **Reply #907 on:** September 26, 2013, 04:06:49 pm »

OK, Prod.

Thanks for your reply.

Mars

Cerebro · « **Reply #908 on:** September 29, 2013, 02:46:22 am »

Hi Prod,
How can I get MCiS to run an intial sync where it does not aggregate ratings, but overwrites itunes (i.e. a one-way sync, vs. 2 way)
I had a computer crash and have my MC database working well after all the reinstalls; however, all songs in itunes have no rating and when I sync for the first time, it writes 0 ratings for all songs into MC.

Many thanks!

prod · « **Reply #909 on:** October 05, 2013, 10:33:04 am »

Add /ExportAggregatesOnlyFrom:MC as a command line argument when running MCiS. This will perform a one-way export from MC to iTunes.

rjm · « **Reply #910 on:** October 21, 2013, 08:40:59 pm »

Trying to find a clean method for getting mp4 video from MC onto iOS devices.

It seems we need the following changes to MCiS:
1) sync from MC "Media Sub Type" to iTunes "Media Kind"
2) sync from MC "Series" to iTunes "Show"
3) sync from MC "Season" to iTunes "Season Number"
4) sync from MC "Episode" to iTunes "Episode Number"
5) sync MC movie and TV cover art to iTunes artwork (this may not be possible for MCiS, MC may have to write artwork to mp4 file)

Any chance of an update to address these issues? I'd be willing to pay for a significant update.

rjm · « **Reply #911 on:** October 21, 2013, 08:46:44 pm »

Want to sync mp3 audiobooks and podcasts from MC to iOS devices.

It mostly works now except for one key feature.

We need MCiS to sync MC's "Use Bookmarking" to iTunes "Remember playback position".

Any chance of this enhancement?

glynor · « **Reply #912 on:** October 21, 2013, 10:01:00 pm »

Quote from: rjm on October 21, 2013, 08:40:59 pm

Trying to find a clean method for getting mp4 video from MC onto iOS devices.

It seems we need the following changes to MCiS:
1) sync from MC "Media Sub Type" to iTunes "Media Kind"
2) sync from MC "Series" to iTunes "Show"
3) sync from MC "Season" to iTunes "Season Number"
4) sync from MC "Episode" to iTunes "Episode Number"
5) sync MC movie and TV cover art to iTunes artwork (this may not be possible for MCiS, MC may have to write artwork to mp4 file)

Any chance of an update to address these issues? I'd be willing to pay for a significant update.

+100

Quote from: rjm on October 21, 2013, 08:46:44 pm

We need MCiS to sync MC's "Use Bookmarking" to iTunes "Remember playback position".

Any chance of this enhancement?

If you have it set the iTunes Media Kind field properly based on [Media Sub Type] from MC, then iTunes automatically makes Audiobooks use bookmarking, so you don't need to worry about this separately so much (unless you're setting this manually for some media types other than Audiobooks).

I think I asked for the Media Kind stuff once before and prod wasn't sure it was possible to set that field via the iTunes SDK...

rjm · « **Reply #913 on:** October 21, 2013, 10:32:22 pm »

Quote from: glynor on October 21, 2013, 10:01:00 pm

If you have it set the iTunes Media Kind field properly based on [Media Sub Type] from MC, then iTunes automatically makes Audiobooks use bookmarking, so you don't need to worry about this separately so much (unless you're setting this manually for some media types other than Audiobooks).

I am setting Use Bookmarking manually and not using [Media Sub Type]=Audiobook.

I prefer the behavior of an audiobook on an iDevice with this method.

prod · « **Reply #914 on:** October 24, 2013, 04:03:33 pm »

I'll have a look.

glynor · « **Reply #915 on:** October 24, 2013, 05:13:43 pm »

Quote from: prod on October 24, 2013, 04:03:33 pm

I'll have a look.

This.

prod · « **Reply #916 on:** November 08, 2013, 08:22:21 am »

Quote from: glynor on October 21, 2013, 10:01:00 pm

I think I asked for the Media Kind stuff once before and prod wasn't sure it was possible to set that field via the iTunes SDK...

Unfortunately this is still the case. The SDK doesn't allow setting of this property.

Series, Season and Episode can be done.

You could embed the artwork in the mp4, in which case iTunes should just pick it up. If there's an image file though, it is possible to add that image file to the iTunes file - however knowing iTunes it would probably embed the image into the file anyway.

sunfire7 · « **Reply #917 on:** November 28, 2013, 02:05:52 am »

I'm testing and still learning to use this nice app.

Is there a way to only import & sync to itunes the files that are incluided on a MC playlist?? Thank you!

Edit:

ok I found this:

/ViewScheme - The MC view scheme path to use. Only tracks in this view scheme will be sync'd.

will this only import & sync to itunes the specific view or only sync?

prod · « **Reply #918 on:** November 29, 2013, 07:05:26 am »

Quote from: sunfire7 on November 28, 2013, 02:05:52 am

I'm testing and still learning to use this nice app.

Is there a way to only import & sync to itunes the files that are incluided on a MC playlist?? Thank you!

Edit:

ok I found this:

/ViewScheme - The MC view scheme path to use. Only tracks in this view scheme will be sync'd.

will this only import & sync to itunes the specific view or only sync?

Yep that's right. Or you can use /Playlist to specify a playlist. It basically ignores anything outside of that MC playlist (or viewscheme if you use /ViewScheme).

sunfire7 · « **Reply #919 on:** December 01, 2013, 12:18:49 am »

Quote from: prod on November 29, 2013, 07:05:26 am

Yep that's right. Or you can use /Playlist to specify a playlist. It basically ignores anything outside of that MC playlist (or viewscheme if you use /ViewScheme).

confused..
Will it import (and sync) only the specific view or playlist??

prod · « **Reply #920 on:** December 03, 2013, 04:17:31 pm »

Quote from: sunfire7 on December 01, 2013, 12:18:49 am

confused..
Will it import (and sync) only the specific view or playlist??

It will only sync/import items contained within the specified MC view/playlist. This is nothing at all to do with transferring an MC playlist across to iTunes and everything to do with modifying the scope of the entire operation.

StarVector11 · « **Reply #921 on:** June 08, 2014, 01:48:15 pm »

Is this still the best option for exporting a MC library to itunes? Are there any other (or more up-to-date) alternatives?

jack wallstreet · « **Reply #922 on:** June 21, 2014, 12:17:51 pm »

I have found this program to be extremely powerful and flexible. It simply works well and hasn't seemed to need any upgrade. Short of MC directly interfacing with Apple products, I have trouble seeing what could be better than this program.

glynor · « **Reply #923 on:** September 19, 2014, 11:08:00 am »

If anyone wondered, this still works fine with the latest (iOS8-supporting) iTunes 11.4.0.18.

rhgh · « **Reply #924 on:** October 05, 2014, 09:32:00 am »

Hello prod

under settings I can only adjust such as "Mp3" files imported and synced.
I wish a Mc database field such as "MCITS" with "yes and no" to select and limit the songs.

Reinhard

spanky1406 · « **Reply #925 on:** October 21, 2014, 03:23:09 am »

Quote from: glynor on September 19, 2014, 11:08:00 am

If anyone wondered, this still works fine with the latest (iOS8-supporting) iTunes 11.4.0.18.

Tried it today with iTunes 12.0.1.26 and MC 19 and it still works fine

milehigh · « **Reply #926 on:** November 16, 2014, 03:20:35 pm »

Hi,

I understand that you can sync a single playlist using the /playlist.

I was wondering if there was a way just to skip the "analyzing" part and just sync playlists that I have checked? Unfortunately they are spread across multiple folders and I would don't want to copy them all into one folder or combine them into one giant playlist as that upsets the way I have them organized and tied to each other and one giant list defeats the purpose for me. I have tried it with everything unchecked but the playlists but it still goes through the whole library....

Is there a way to just jump right to the playlist import part? If not - can this possibly be added. My library is >130k songs and it just takes forever...

Thanks.

BartMan01 · « **Reply #927 on:** November 23, 2014, 09:34:19 pm »

Just a general PSA, if you have any logic in your iTunesFileKey field and stuff with MC iTunesSyncronizer stops working properly, check that your iTunesFileKey data is still accurate.

This has burned me a few times, and just got me again (I had changed a network path and not updated the library field). I was just about to post a detailed 'help me' post when I figured that out.

Joe Paris · « **Reply #928 on:** January 02, 2015, 03:15:22 am »

Hello, will MCiS work on Mac?

Thanks

prod · « **Reply #929 on:** January 02, 2015, 05:42:13 am »

Quote from: Joe Paris on January 02, 2015, 03:15:22 am

Hello, will MCiS work on Mac?

Thanks

Hi, no I'm afraid not.

Joe Paris · « **Reply #930 on:** January 03, 2015, 12:13:57 pm »

So, any similar solution for Macs then?

MarkGrigsby · « **Reply #931 on:** April 06, 2015, 06:44:40 am »

Is anyone having success with this on MC20? Seems to get 'stuck' during the sync process

prod · « **Reply #932 on:** April 07, 2015, 01:29:42 pm »

Quote from: MarkGrigsby on April 06, 2015, 06:44:40 am

Is anyone having success with this on MC20? Seems to get 'stuck' during the sync process

Looks OK here ... are there any clues in the log?

glynor · « **Reply #933 on:** April 07, 2015, 05:13:59 pm »

Quote from: MarkGrigsby on April 06, 2015, 06:44:40 am

Is anyone having success with this on MC20? Seems to get 'stuck' during the sync process

Mine works fine.

MarkGrigsby · « **Reply #934 on:** July 10, 2015, 06:02:49 am »

Sorry I never came back on this - it DID work, just now has a very long (1 hour?) delay while iTunes imports new tracks. Is anyone else seeing this? Also with the latest MC, the /playlist switch doesn't seem to work, it now loads the whole MC library. Any idea what may be wrong?

jack wallstreet · « **Reply #935 on:** July 14, 2015, 08:44:16 am »

Works for me on MC20, too. Have used MCiS for a number of MC versions.

MarkGrigsby · « **Reply #936 on:** July 14, 2015, 11:37:53 am »

Quote from: MarkGrigsby on July 10, 2015, 06:02:49 am

Sorry I never came back on this - it DID work, just now has a very long (1 hour?) delay while iTunes imports new tracks. Is anyone else seeing this? Also with the latest MC, the /playlist switch doesn't seem to work, it now loads the whole MC library. Any idea what may be wrong?

I figured out my issue! Seems my (smart) playlist had got corrupted so MCiS was loading the whole library, and hence taking forever as it was looking for thousands of missing tracks which of course it couldn't import to iTunes. Fixed the playlist and now all works quickly and properly.

glynor · « **Reply #937 on:** July 14, 2015, 11:19:12 pm »

You probably got bitten by this issue:
Editing Playlists On the Server While A Client Is Connected = Crazy?

TXgary · « **Reply #938 on:** August 15, 2015, 09:20:43 am »

I am having problems getting MC iTunes sync to rebuild a playlist. I deleted the contents of the playlist in iTunes and selected rebuild in MC iTunes sync but it builds the playlist alphabeticaly. I need it built exactly in the sequence it is in MC20.
Any thoughts

jack wallstreet · « **Reply #939 on:** September 13, 2015, 05:46:42 pm »

I have been unable to get MCiS to work with MC21. I have to bring up MC21 before MCiS it even shows a playlist (haven't had to do that before) and then when I tell it to Synchronize, MCiS says "synchronize unsuccessful. Please review log." But no log is created. It is an almost instant failure. Itunes 12.2.2.25. I have uninstalled MC20 (and restarted)

Edit: Also, MCiS used to take quite a while to load when it worked. Now it loads almost instantly.

2nd Edit: A log was created. Here is the end of it.:

<Result EndDateTime="2015-09-13T17:02:56">Could not access J River Media Center. Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {572802D5-FBF6-4C30-89CA-BDF2CE4AEC2B} failed due to the following error: 80040154.</Result>

3rd edit: I deleted mc 21 and re installed 21.006. It worked now with MCiS, although my settings became screwed up in MC21. So, seemingly no issues with MCiS.

jack wallstreet · « **Reply #940 on:** October 31, 2015, 11:50:30 pm »

Pete,

Small Panic, I opened up my MCIS and all of a sudden the donation screen shows, my settings are gone and it shows as unregistered. I am not aware of doing anything unusual. Is there a file hanging around somewhere with the settings. I have my registration key, so that's not the issue. I'm more worried about my settings which I haven't changed in several years so I forgot what they are.

alexandrebrasil · « **Reply #941 on:** November 22, 2015, 11:05:58 am »

Hello,

I downloaded the Synchronizer and was very impressed by it. It works beautifully. My only problem is my trial period ended. I clicked the "Buy Now" button to pay for a registered version, but the browser just forward me to this forum page instead. Anyone knows if there is a problem or how can I be a good customer, pay for the software and use it?

Regards,

alexandrebrasil · « **Reply #942 on:** December 20, 2015, 04:04:00 pm »

Just trying again, hoping someone sees it this time. Anyone knows how can I register this software after the trial period ended? I liked it a lot, and would like to keep using, but the "Buy" button sends me to this forum.

Thanks,

rhgh · « **Reply #943 on:** December 24, 2015, 04:35:03 am »

Quote from: alexandrebrasil on December 20, 2015, 04:04:00 pm

Just trying again, hoping someone sees it this time. Anyone knows how can I register this software after the trial period ended? I liked it a lot, and would like to keep using, but the "Buy" button sends me to this forum.

Thanks,

http://download.cnet.com/windows/misterpete/3260-20_4-10088212-1.html

alexandrebrasil · « **Reply #944 on:** December 26, 2015, 02:56:04 pm »

Thank you for your help, but my problem is not that I can't download it. I can download it just fine. I just can't register the software to use it after the 30-day trial. I tried to delete it all and restart it again, but it only opens a window asking for my registration code or a buy now button that redirects to this forum. I am at a loss of what to do.

alexandrebrasil · « **Reply #945 on:** January 16, 2016, 10:52:13 am »

Well, I give up. It is a pity, I really liked the software. It is the first time I try to pay for something and can't for no reason.

prod · « **Reply #946 on:** February 20, 2016, 02:12:46 pm »

Sorry for being quiet recently.

I intend to remove the nag screen and make this freely available. Once I've made those changes I'll upload the code to GitHub so anyone can extend/modify it.

I'll post back here once it's done.

Quote from: alexandrebrasil on January 16, 2016, 10:52:13 am

Well, I give up. It is a pity, I really liked the software. It is the first time I try to pay for something and can't for no reason.

Sorry about that, I've PM'd you a registration code so you can get up and running.

prod · « **Reply #947 on:** February 23, 2016, 01:40:22 pm »

MCiS is now free to use, and is open source. You can find the source code on GitHub here: https://github.com/prod1/mcis

JimH · « **Reply #948 on:** February 23, 2016, 01:42:14 pm »

That's very nice of you. Thanks.

Reddy Kilowatt · « **Reply #949 on:** February 26, 2016, 10:09:37 am »

I'm trying to use MCiS with JRiver Media Center 19. I've set up a very small playlist with a single album. Trying to sync results in the following message: "Successfully analyzed 38 tracks, of which 0 were synchronized."

Any idea what I'm doing wrong? My library is much larger than 38 tracks and the playlist is only 9 tracks, so I'm a little confused about what that means. When I hit Synchronize, it shows the "Loading MC Library" message and indicates that it's scanning ~18k files even though my library is about ~15k files. Thoughts?

Thanks.

EDIT: one more piece of information... I'm trying to do this from a machine accessing a remote library. Is that possible, or must the library be local?

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