Hey, I just wanted to bring this back up with a bit of a new request. First of all, I still need to have a customizable root folder and ID3-customizable filenames. But I'd like to clarify what I wanted by "playlist-synchronization".
My music collection is considerably greater in size than 20GB, the capacity of my MP3 player. So how I would like to use Media Center is that I would have a special playlist that would contain all the files I wanted to have in some specific folder on my handheld (thus incorporating my "root-folder specification" request). I would be able to "sync" this playlist to the folder. All files on the playlist but not in the folder would be transferred to the handheld (with the correct ID3-named folders and filenames, of course). All files in the folder but not on the playlist would be deleted from the handheld (so I could make room for new transfers). Other little cosmetic things would be done of course, like deleting empty folders, but that's the general idea.
I wouldn't have brought up such an elaborate request, but I gather that this is what can be done with the iPod plugin. If it's way too much trouble, thats quite all right, I'd just like to be able to do the root-folders and filenames (sorry if I'm being a bit repetitive). Currently MC is somewhat unusable for copying music to my Archos, but if these two small features were added (and especially if the big one was added) it would be perfect.
Thanks!
Joshua Horowitz