[Banshee-List] can't create ipod playlists

[meeotch <mitch houseofpain org>]

Two questions:  First, I seem to be unable to create playlists on my 2nd gen
Nano with banshee 2.6.1 on Linux Mint Petra, libgpod4 0.8.2-7ubuntu4.

I can create them, and they show up under the device in banshee, and I can
populate them (only with tracks that are already on the device, apparently)
but they're not actually on the device when I eject it, and they don't show
up in banshee when I plug it back in.

2)  Using Ye Olde Amarok 1.4, I was able to do the following, and I'd like
to recreate this workflow, or come up with something equally streamlined:

a) create a smart playlist that picks songs not played in the last two
months, and orders them randomly
b) click on this playlist, and choose "sync to device", to get all of the
songs AND the playlist transferred
c) when I run out of songs on the ipod, re-connect it, choose "delete all",
goto step b.

I've gotten as far as creating the smart playlist in banshee - but it orders
all the songs alphabetically, and it seems that I have to put them in the
play queue in order to shuffle them.  (Which is a bummer, if I happen to be
listening to something.)  Then I can drag the songs to the ipod, but not the
playlist... Meaning that the shuffling was moot.

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In case anyone's wondering:  The problem with having no playlist is if rely
on the ipod's shuffle feature, it "forgets" where it is in the list of songs
if I plug it in to charge it, turn it off, etc.  So I end up hearing
duplicates when I start it up again.  The beauty of the smart playlist is
that I also used it for listening in amarok - so I basically had an
uninterrupted shuffle of all my music, both at home and on the road, that
would track plays and not repeat songs.  In the past 8 or so years, I've
barely ever even searched for a particular album.  The music was just On or
it was Off.  Then my (six year old Ubuntu Hardy based) system drive crapped
out.

(I'm sort of surprised, given all of this was working in Y.O.Amarok in like
2006, that ipod compatibility for old models like mine isn't a solved
problem for all linux players by now.  Clementine, for instance, doesn't
have ipod playlist functionality at all - and banshee's transfer speed to my
'pod is suuuuper slow.)



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