Suppose that I have a bunch of audio CDs in my MM library. Some of them are in the virtual CD, some aren't. I'd like to transfer some CD songs that are in the library but not in the virtual CD.
So I go the iPod options, first tab, and select the CDs that I'd like to synchronize.
The problem is that CDs that are not in a CD drive at the time of synchronization are ignored. MM does not tell me that these CDs were not copied to the portable device.
It shoud at least tell me. Or even better, it could invite me to insert the required CD(s) in the drive so it(they) can be copied (and converted to MP3) to the iPod.
Anyway, now I know that the CD must be in the drive if I want the transfer to happen. So I'm proceeding one CD at a time: add the CD to the sync list / insert the CD into the drive / launch a synchronization.
For the first CD, everything happens as expected.
But when I synchronize the second CD, MM is asking me whether I'd like to delete a list of tracks that were found on the iPod, but that are not in the synchronization list. If I look closer at the files it offers to delete, this is precisely the tracks that were copied from the first CD!
IMHO, MediaMonkey should leave on the portable device the tracks that are in the library, even if they are not available at the time of synchronization. This is must have in order to be able to transfer one's CD collection to a portable device without requirring the CDs to be first transferred to the PC hard drive.
), the other issue I was mentionning is still there: in the synchronization list, MM allows me to select any CD I'd like, but doesn't warn me that it won't copy the CD to the iPod if it is not inserted during the synchronization. Nor does it invite me to insert the CD.