by MonkeyMadness » Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:59 pm
I love being able to use my filters when syncing to my ipod. But as the feature is currently implemented, it's not nearly as useful as it could be.
If I've chose to sync my music using one of my filters (in the Configuration dialog > Auto-sync list tab > Music tab), I should be able to select the All Music checkbox and it should sync all the music in my filter. But it doesn't do that. Instead it syncs all music in your entire library. That makes no sense.
Additionally, the ability to choose tracks in this same window is severely crippled. First of all, you are limited to only 3 choices of Location, Artist & Album Artist, and Album. Would be nice to select by Genre, for example, and others. But the real problem here is that there is no easy way to make multiple selections. You must check each checkbox individually. There is no way to check them all or uncheck them all. As I said, you can check the All Music checkbox, but that actually selects all music in your entire library. Bad Monkey! And you can select multiple checkboxes (using Ctrl-click and Shift-click), but then you can't do anything with them. You should be able to right-click at that point, which would bring up a context menu allowing to check or uncheck the selected items.
I've been told you can use playlists to do your syncing. But what good is it to tease us with filters for syncing (a much cleaner way of syncing), and then make them pretty much unusable?
Would love to hear feedback on this. Maybe I'm missing something.
I love being able to use my filters when syncing to my ipod. But as the feature is currently implemented, it's not nearly as useful as it could be.
If I've chose to sync my music using one of my filters (in the [b]Configuration [/b]dialog > [b]Auto-sync list[/b] tab > [b]Music[/b] tab), I should be able to select the [b]All Music[/b] checkbox and it should sync all the music in my filter. But it doesn't do that. Instead it syncs all music in your [i]entire library[/i]. That makes no sense.
Additionally, the ability to choose tracks in this same window is severely crippled. First of all, you are limited to only 3 choices of Location, Artist & Album Artist, and Album. Would be nice to select by Genre, for example, and others. But the real problem here is that there is no easy way to make multiple selections. You must check each checkbox [i]individually[/i]. There is no way to check them all or uncheck them all. As I said, you can check the [b]All Music[/b] checkbox, but that actually selects all music in your entire library. Bad Monkey! And you can [i]select[/i] multiple checkboxes (using Ctrl-click and Shift-click), but then you can't do anything with them. You should be able to right-click at that point, which would bring up a context menu allowing to check or uncheck the selected items.
I've been told you can use playlists to do your syncing. But what good is it to tease us with filters for syncing (a much cleaner way of syncing), and then make them pretty much unusable?
Would love to hear feedback on this. Maybe I'm missing something.