B4: Sync problems with Zen Vision:M

by **Macarena** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:28 am

Macarena wrote:Yes, I do.

I think I made a mistake

:~/ There is a place to check the wanted playlists at the playlist options (playlist/artists/albums/folder structure) and I did not have any of them checked. So, there was nth to copy for MM. Well, I also formatted my device before. But now, yes, it does synchronise my playlists and songs. Or better to say - now I know how to do it -- it's interesting I'd found it out only at the third tried RC release...

by **Macarena** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:28 am

nynaevelan wrote:In your device setup, do you have it checked to sync playlists??

Yes, I do. I even changed the path (\playlists2\) but nothing new appeared in the device (nor as on the storage device, nor inside the player). I'll try to manage some screenshots of the settings...

by **nynaevelan** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 9:57 am

In your device setup, do you have it checked to sync playlists??

Nyn

by **Macarena** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:06 am

nynaevelan wrote:Are you using a clean installation? I was able to successfully use RC4 once I uninstalled and then reinstalled.

Yes, I am. I unistalled, checked the directory for the files (only some scripts remained), installed, rebooted. I did sync the songs (IMO all of them were synced) but no playlist appeared. I did not reset the player before, thou. And I deleted some songs they were definitely on some playlist. The songs were synced, the playlists were not. They are not on the device at all (not that the device would not recognise them...)

by **nynaevelan** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:34 am

Macarena:

Are you using a clean installation? I was able to successfully use RC4 once I uninstalled and then reinstalled.

Nyn

by **Macarena** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:40 am

Playlists are not synced at all at me. Using MM3RC5, creative ZVM 60GB with the newest SW inside. What kind of information do you guys need so that we are able to work aorund this, or create a report or sth? Seems that all other songs are copied correctly. Thanks!

by **nynaevelan** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:24 pm

Then consider yourself very lucky!!!

Nyn

by **shotofadds** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 3:10 pm

All the tracks are there, as far as I can see. Auto-playlists and M3Us both seem to contain all the tracks they should.

by **nynaevelan** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:20 pm

Are all your songs syncing during an autosync?? I ask because I am able to sync now but when I check the tracks that are in the playlists on the players 8 out of 10 of them are missing tracks.

Nyn

by **shotofadds** » Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:08 pm

All these problems (the weird status bar behaviour, levelling read-only tracks on-the-fly, slow MTP deletions) seem to be fixed in RC2, thanks guys!

Syncing to the Vision:M is now speedy and happy again

by **HeistMonkey** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:51 pm

Nice job shotofadds. Good info.

shotofadds wrote:Some progress:

- Everything works well after a full re-scan
- Everything works well when using my old backed-up RC1 DB.

I entered my Gold registration and set up my usual Auto-Conversion rules:

1. Convert incompatible tracks to 192k CBR
2. Convert tracks with bitrate over 256k to 192k CBR
3. Level volume when syncronizing

It is the "level volume" option that causes the problems to appear: both the weird "Copying XX of YY" and "1 track to be tagged" behaviour, and also the error with Read Only tracks too.

Can this be fixed for RC2, pretty please

by **shotofadds** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:43 pm

Some progress:

- Everything works well after a full re-scan
- Everything works well when using my old backed-up RC1 DB.

I entered my Gold registration and set up my usual Auto-Conversion rules:

1. Convert incompatible tracks to 192k CBR
2. Convert tracks with bitrate over 256k to 192k CBR
3. Level volume when syncronizing

It is the "level volume" option that causes the problems to appear: both the weird "Copying XX of YY" and "1 track to be tagged" behaviour, and also the error with Read Only tracks too.

Can this be fixed for RC2, pretty please

EDIT: Presumably, this doesn't have anything to do with the Vision:M....

by **shotofadds** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 3:59 pm

Hi rusty,

So far today I've tried the following procedure:

- Uninstall both RC1 and 2.5.5
- Rename My Music\MediaMonkey folder (keeping 2.5.5 backup)
- Rename Application Data\MediaMonkey folder (keeping RC1 backup)
- Reboot
- Delete Program Files\MediaMonkey and Program Files\MediaMonkey3
- Install RC1 (1098)

I then scanned a single folder of MP3s (one album, 13 tracks) and added that folder (by location) to the Auto-Sync list. I updated the Genre tag and performed an auto-update. At this stage I have not entered my Gold registration.

The result? The sync worked perfectly - the "Copying XX of YY" behaved as expected, there were no unexpected "1 track to be tagged" popping up; and most of all boy was it fast compared to before the re-install. I even made one of the files Read Only in explorer, which yesterday would have caused the error box above. This worked perfectly as well.

One thing I did notice, the recurring My Documents > Music > Music > Music > .... from another thread was still present, even after a full reinstall.

I will do some further testing - eg. reverting to my backed-up RC1 DB - and post here to let you know how it goes....

by **shotofadds** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:53 am

Thanks for looking into it. At present I have a working MM2.5 in Program Files\MediaMonkey, alongside RC1 in Program Files\MediaMonkey3. I uninstalled MM3 B4 and removed its Application Data folder before installing RC1, and I'm using a freshly-scanned database (not upgraded from 2.5).

MM2.5 hasn't been run for several weeks, although it didn't seem to affect Beta4. I will try uninstalling both MM2.5 and RC1 and starting from scratch sometime over the weekend.

One more thing I've noticed: the weird "Copying XX of YY" behaviour only seems to happen when doing a full Auto-Sync. If I send tracks to the player using Right Click, Send To it seems to display correctly (though the Read Only / "1 track to be tagged" problems still exist).

by **rusty** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:21 am

Shotofadds,

Thanks. Jiri's going to check this out. I retested on various devices and still couldn't reproduce any of it. This would imply that:

a) it might be device-specific (doubtful)
b) it might be config-related (e.g. something specific on the device or in MM)
c) it might be that MM install is somehow corrupted (e.g. 2.5.x elements are being used because it's running or because they weren't overwritten correctly)

Jiri will look into the first two. Please re-verify that your install is truly clean.

Thx.

-Rusty

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