Not initially. sincce it wasn't working, I wiped everything on the drive and tried syncing it as a new device. It recreated the Media Monkey folder but didn't copy any files across at all. I only bought this thing in the first place because windows Media Player (now Legacy and unsupported) stopped ...

Nah. That didn't help. Sometimes it notices if files have changed; sometimes it doesn't. Now it's refusing to recognise USB devices I've used before, and appends "(1)" to their name. Luckily I exported my sync settings so I can import them again, but it sits there scanning for hours on end and doesn ...

To answer your question "how is this this not working for you?", you tell me! I'll think it's all gone well, I'll be playing random tracks in my car and suddenly an album (seemingly at random) will be missing its artwork. For missing artwork, many head units will refuse to show album art that is ...

Thanks for all your suggestions. I've found that the only way round this that seems to work is to clear the database every time I make changes to a file. Continuous monitoring and scan at startup don't seem to work (at least, not reliably)

At what point did I say that auto conversion wasn't working??? I already have that add-on, or I wouldn't have the ability to use M4A! It's everything else that's wrong: messing with my tags, deleting artwork etc. I've just deleted everything on the flash drive (including the Media Monkey folder) and ...

Only that m4a is a better format than mp3. I know people say you can't hear the lossiness of mp3 but it's just not true. I can tell when something sounds compressed; m4a is the lesser of two evils. Same reason I'd prefer flac if it worked well in the car. That's not the issue though - I could have ...

Thanks for your suggestions. I'm mostly aware of all the problems my particular car throws up, for example I need to keep the artwork small-ish or it won't show (400 by 400 seems optimum). I've also come across the issue of it not playing tracks in order if I use flac, hence the need to conver them ...

1) MediaMonkey doesn't tag your files if you don't allow it to. Disable the auto metadata lookup to prevent any automatic tagging. 2) MediaMonkey can Auto-Convert on Sync . How is this not working for you? Thank you for your suggestions. 1) I've now unchecked everything on that page: we'll see how ...

I think I've bought something far too complicated for my needs. I've wrestled with it and I can't stop it from taking over and imposing its own will on me. Every time I think I've found an answer on this forum another problem pops up (or an old one resurfaces). I just want it to do the following: 1 ...