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[lalittle]

I decided to give a Cowon S9 a try (instead of an iPod), but I'm confused about a few points.

When I first connected unit, the sync list in MC came up with a LOT of files "On Device" that appear to be files associated with the general functioning of the unit itself -- exe files, pdfs, dlls, infs, etc., as well as image files (jpg, gif, png, etc.) that are used as some sort of icons for general use of the unit.  I always use the "delete files not in sync list" when I sync (just too hard to manage list otherwise), but I wanted to verify that just because these files are on the sync list does NOT mean that a sync will delete them (or have ANY effect on them.)  They say "On Device" and not "Delete on sync" -- does this mean that they will not be effected by a sync?  In other words, if files do not say "Delete on Sync," MC will ignore them, correct?  I just want to make ABSOLUTELY sure that I don't accidentally delete something important.

I came from using iPods, which ONLY show the media on the device in the resulting MC list, so seeing a bunch of files that have nothing to do with media that I'm syncing (including image files that are not really "media") is confusing me a bit.

On this note, am I correct in assuming that MC will ONLY effect the folders defined under "Files and Paths" (i.e. Audio Path, Images Path, Video Path, etc.) when doing a sync, and leave ALL files alone that are not in these specific folders EVEN if they're included in the supported file types for the unit?  For example, will it leave alone all the jpgs, gifs, pngs, etc. that are NOT in the "Images" path, and only deal with the folder defined as the Images folder?

I also noticed that the Cowon S9 uses different paths than the ones already on the unit -- i.e. it comes with a folder called "Pictures" instead of "Images," and it has a "Documents" folder that MC doesn't include.  Am I supposed to change the MC list to match the existing folder names on the unit (i.e. should I change "Images" to "Pictures" in the MC handheld settings), or does this not matter -- i.e. will the MC sync somehow "tell" the unit what the correct paths are for these items?

Is MC's "Database Path" the folder it will use for "Documents"?  The MC settings don't have anything set for "Database Path," so should I change this to "Documents\"?

Is there any reason to change the "supported types" if I know that I only have files in my MC library that the Cowon S9 supports?

Is there anything else I need to do (perhaps "should" do) before syncing the unit?

Thanks for any help with this,

Larry

[lalittle]

On a related note, I have NO idea how to set the "Playlist" options.  I couldn't find anything in the documentation about this, so I don't know if the MC default settings are correct.   I suppose I could just start using trial and error, but it would be nice if I could find out the correct setting for this.

Also, there is no "Playlist" folder on the unit, but the "Playlist" path in MC is "Playlists\."  Will the S9 "see" the playlists that I put in this folder, or do I have to make some sort of changes to this to get it to work.  If so, how do I set it up?

Thanks again,

Larry

[JimH]

You can set which playlists to sync in the options for the device.

Back up any files you're concerned about and then try a sync. 

Let us know what you learn.

[mhsmd]

MC syncs fine with the S9, but the playlists are not extended m3u and do not work (look empty to the s9). It is necessary to create extended playlists somewhere else, or export them from MC as extended and then edit the paths, which is cumbersome.

It would be nice if MC supported the s9 natively, as it does with iriver devices.

[lalittle]

Just to update my experiences with this, I was able to get the S9 to sync with MC, but I had to set up the MC sync settings manually.  I changed the supported file types to only files that the S9 could play, as well as the folder paths so that MC would only alter specific folders used for media.  I believe there were a few other changes I made as well, but I can't remember exactly what they were, and I never did find the answers to the other questions I asked in the first thread.

In the end, however, I decided that 32 Gigs would simply not be enough for my needs, and I really didn't like some of the navigation characteristics of the unit.  For example, using tag browsing, there was no way to drill into a multi-artist album when starting with the Genre tag.  There was no way to choose "All Artists" of a certain genre and view all albums within this genre -- on the S9, the moment you choose "All" you'd get all Songs rather than all Albums.  There were other characteristics like this that really drove me nuts, like the lack of play controls when not on the play screen -- it just didn't match up with my way of thinking.  I thought I might be able to get used to it, but it just continued to frustrate me, and the storage size was just too small.  (I did try the user made GUI feature, but I was never clear if this would help in the ways I wanted.)

In the end, I returned it and we back to my iPod, which admittedly doesn't sound as good, but the navigation paradigm is much better in my opinion, and it has at least twice the storage room.

Larry