Re: [Banshee-List] Ipod (hate it)- Sync entire library

[Alan <alan mcgovern gmail com>]

#2 has been committed to git master. If you're able to compile banshee
from git, please do and let us know if you experience any issues.

Alan.

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Michael Martin-Smucker
<mlmartin13 gmail com> wrote:
> #1 sounds like a bug, and I don't remember seeing it reported.  You might
> want to do some basic searches for it
> here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=banshee  If you can't
> find anything, don't hesitate to report it.
> #2 is a known issue with the new Banshee's new iPod handling, and it should
> be fixed before the stable 1.8.0 release, which is scheduled for September
> 29.
> Someone else will have to help you with #3 because I'm not really sure.  I
> know a couple other media players (specifically Songbird) had been looking
> at implementing the ability to read/write playcounts and ratings from/to
> files, but I'm not sure what the progress is.
> Michael
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:27 AM, phoneboxboy <phoneboxboy gmail com> wrote:
>>
>> I can finally sink banshee to my ipod... Thank you devs soo much!
>>
>> now I have three new issues, that I would like to raise prior to issuing a
>> bug report?
>>
>> 1) I synchronized my entire library to the Ipod (god I hate this thing),
>> using auto sync - entire library, And Banshee started to sync all 12000+
>> files, now this may not seem strange, but my Music library consists of
>> only
>> 6300 mp3 files. I do have 10 smart lists which my music collection is
>> sorted
>> into..
>>
>> What appears to have happened is that banshee is copying the files to the
>> ipod for each playlist, meaning i have every song on my Ipod twice! - just
>> wondering if anybody else has had this problem?
>>
>> 2) I am able to create a playlist for my Ipod in banshee, but banchee
>> never
>> transfers the playlist to the ipod. It doesn't matter if it is a normal
>> playlist or smart playlist. it never transfers. ipod->music->playlists =
>> very empty
>>
>> 3) Not an Ipod question as such more a general banshee question that can
>> probably be answered here; I have banshee configure to write playcounts
>> and
>> ratings to files, yet no other program or the ipod can read the ratings
>> left
>> by banshee. I use a combination of genre and ratings to create smart
>> playlists and it appears that banshee does use the popularitymeter tag but
>> with banshee: preceding the score. is this common or just not a widely
>> supported feature?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Nick
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