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MC iTunes Synchronizer (using MC with an iPhone or iPod Touch) [v6.0.2]
jack wallstreet:
Update on MCIS and latest ITunes (12.6.2.xx). I have not been able to get MCIS to work properly for the latest iTunes versions (it aborts part way through). TxGary has provided an alternative, but its use seems limited by ITunes practical problems such as having to delete playlists by hand and not being able to put a playlist within a folder (in iTunes).
At present here are two apparent work arounds (for those having issues)
1. Go back to 12.5.5 (that or similar version may work) or
2. Delete your entire iTunes playlists before you engage MCIS (doesn't seem to abort if you do that) - time consuming to rebuild however
Having your playlist in MC under a folder makes it easy to delete all playlists in ITunes because the high level folder is created by MCIS in ITunes and that, along with all sub playlists can be deleted in iTunes. Obviously, don't forget to update the music files in ITunes before you do any of that (import in ITunes). There is a free program available on the internet: KillTopLevelPlaylists.vbs that seems to work if you don't have your playlists in a folder
The uncheck the broken link box did not help me. (earlier suggestion)
Hope this helps and people have other suggestions. This is making me think seriously about whether I want the IPhone 8
John
TXgary:
I agree on the requirement of an iPhone? Maybe not....
Cost of new phone, not able to add storage, change battery, connect and sync with JRiver, etc.
The KillTopLevelPlaylists solution works for me. I delete then rebuild by "adding folder" to iTunes after exporting all from JRiver.
It is much much faster than MCIS and ALL the playlists are in the same sequence they are in JRiver.
iTunes is going to be continually enhanced. MCIS apparently is dead.
Just my thoughts.
glynor:
--- Quote from: lmurawski on April 12, 2017, 10:30:22 pm ---Anyone else experiencing 'The playlist has been deleted' errors with iTunes 12.6?
<Result EndDateTime="2017-04-12T23:31:08">The playlist has been deleted.</Result>
--- End quote ---
Just for the record, I'm having this issue too. Am I reading right that if I script the sync to kill all existing playlists in iTunes first, and then run the MCiS sync, it works correctly?
That isn't a dealbreaker for me, if it works. I have MCiS syncing a bunch of playlists, though, including some in folders (within both MC and iTunes). Will that KillTopLevelPlaylists.vbs script delete everything, or just the top-level ones?
TXgary:
Just the top level. If they are all at the same level then it will delete all of them.
I delete all of them then export all playlists from JRiver then store in a folder and Add that folder to iTunes (importing the playlists all at the same level).
Understand that each playlist has all the songs in the exact same sequence as the playlist in JRiver does. To do that in MCIS would require to set a switch for each playlist, otherwise, the playlist contain the songs but not in order by using MCIS.
My problem is that MCIS continues to abort prior to adding the playlists. Now this could be because I have not deleted the playlists in iTunes before running MCIS. MCIS was a great product. I just don't know why it has not been enhanced. Perhaps not enough people saw the value of it. I even bought a key from MisterPete. It has great potential, but appears to be dead now.
glynor:
--- Quote from: TXgary on August 15, 2017, 01:57:57 pm ---MCIS was a great product. I just don't know why it has not been enhanced. Perhaps not enough people saw the value of it. I even bought a key from MisterPete. It has great potential, but appears to be dead now.
--- End quote ---
Yeah. I'm sure prod just doesn't need to use it anymore. I own a key for it too, and have been using it without issue for years.
--- Quote from: TXgary on August 15, 2017, 01:57:57 pm ---My problem is that MCIS continues to abort prior to adding the playlists. Now this could be because I have not deleted the playlists in iTunes before running MCIS.
--- End quote ---
Yeah. I'm having that same issue. I looked at the KillAllTopLevel script mentioned before, and the logic in it looks quite simple. I'm going to make a version that kills ALL playlists in iTunes (top-level or not) and see if that fixes it.
If not, prod open sourced MCiS. I'm not sure what it is written in, but might be able to figure out how to fix it. I'm sure the API just changed in some way when accessing existing playlists.
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