iPod Touch iOS4 / MM1299 - iTunes Clash

[Cristhian]

Hi first of all forgive for my bad english, i'm brazilian, and i got a problem, when i sync my itouch 2g ios4 with MM 1299 all musics and cover work well, but when i open itunes, it start to sync automatic and crash all my songs and recongnized it on itunes like other stuff, not music. What's worng?

It's drive me crazy, i can't find any uses to solve this. Can anyone help me?

Thanks.

Obs.: On itunes i just sync photos, apps and books.

[rothschild86]

christian,

you have to go thru all itunes settings and disable all auto-syncs related to music. mm documentation explains how to do that

[Cristhian]

Friend,

Please show me where is it in this forum, i can't find, where is that.

Couse if i stop music on advanced setting on itunes, its stop everything else, not only music.

Thank you after all.

[Cristhian]

Oh my god, now i got 3gb of "other's" on itouch in itunes, and all my musics gone again, and i just use the itunes to sync apps, videos and books.

Please somebody help me...

If i restore it everything will be erased again.

Thanks

[Lowlander]

I assume this post is referred to: http://mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 25&start=0 with a link to this guide: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... _ipod_sync

[rusty]

Has anyone else observed this problem (where subsequent to a sync with MM, content on the iPod(iOS4) changes to category 'other') with 3.2.2.1299 ?

-Rusty

[Ivrus]

Has anyone else observed this problem (where subsequent to a sync with MM, content on the iPod(iOS4) changes to category 'other') with 3.2.2.1299 ?

-Rusty

Yes, I'm getting this on my iTouch 8GB/iOS4. All music sync settings have been disabled in iTunes, and I'm only using that to sync movies and apps.

Something I've noticed is that corruption happens after iTunes attempts a sync after MediaMonkey is done syncing. That is, I auto-synchronize my playlists to the iTouch, then if I sync apps or otherwise interact with the iTouch with iTunes, all of my music is immediately reclassified as "Other" and becomes inaccessible. This can be avoided if you sync with MediaMonkey, disconnect the iTouch by directly yanking the cable (without using iTunes to eject), and then doing something to trigger an update of the music database (for instance, playing a song all the way through to increase playcount). Once this is done, you can reconnect to iTunes and sync movies and apps without music being reclassified.

[rusty]

One other question: is volume analysis disabled in iTunes? (this is done by deselecting 'Soundcheck' on the Edit > Preferences > Playback panel in iTunes).

Thanks.

-Rusty

[Cristthian]

Hi guys,

My fear come true, my music library was perfect and my apps were all installed in the phone by it self.
But my books, i can't found other way to put it on, with out itunes, so i take a deep breath and open the itunes about a 20min. from now.

And All my music gone. Now it's won't recongnized as "other" this simply go, giving free space.

Please somebody help me, i want to cry for it, why we just can't use it, has it was made for?

Apple, a love and hate story. (I plannig to realease a book with that, lol -- no i'm not smile, it's sad)

Thanks all

[Ivrus]

One other question: is volume analysis disabled in iTunes? (this is done by deselecting 'Soundcheck' on the Edit > Preferences > Playback panel in iTunes).

Thanks.

-Rusty

Sound Check is disabled in iTunes. I didn't like the constant clash between iTunes' volume normalization tagging and pretty much every other media player on my system, so made sure that it wasn't active. I do have Sound Check enabled on the iTouch, however, and use MediaMonkey to sync ReplayGain data.

[jiri]

Note that you should have only either MediaMonkey or iTunes open at once in order to prevent problems. Is this your case?

Jiri

[Ivrus]

Note that you should have only either MediaMonkey or iTunes open at once in order to prevent problems. Is this your case?

Jiri

My usual workflow:

- Attach iTouch. iTunes automatically opens.
- Close iTunes.
- Open MediaMonkey.
- Auto-sync playlists.
- Close MediaMonkey.
- Open iTunes.
- Auto-sync apps and manual sync movies.
- Disconnect via the Eject button.

It's at some point during the penultimate step that music gets converted to "Other." I'll have to check the Task Manager next time to make sure that the process is completely terminated to be sure each is completely out of the way of the other, though.

[MaFt]

i had, at one point, the 'other' issue. from memory i fixed this by setting 'manually manage music' in itunes. although i had to manually delete the 'other' files using DiskAid.

i THINK (and don't quote me on this) that if set to manually manage music then it uses a different file structure/naming convention on the iphone / ipod so as soon as itunes is managing the music all the files that MM put on (in the manual mode file structure) are 'ignored' and classed as 'other'.

setting itunes to manually manage music BEFORE syncing media monkey should resolve this.

if you already have your music marked as 'other then i suggest DiskAid to remove the files.

hope this makes sense?

MaFt

[MaFt]

just to add:

if i have 'manually manage music' set in itunes then music get stored in: /iTunes_Control/Music/F00/xx.mp3 where F00 goes from F00 through to F49
with manually manage music turned off (ie iTunes controls adding music) then the music is stored in


actually, having said that, i don't seem to be able to reproduce the 'other' issue with the current build. perhaps this is an iPod only issue and not iphone?

MaFt

[Ivrus]

setting itunes to manually manage music BEFORE syncing media monkey should resolve this.

if you already have your music marked as 'other then i suggest DiskAid to remove the files.

Which was done. I'd set manually manage music as one of my very first actions after getting the iTouch.

I initially purged the extra files with a full reset, but after that, started using iFunBox to delete them whenever this happens.