Guide to iPod syncing

[nohitter151]

Just trying out MM for my 6G nano. Got everything to work except compilation albums, they appear as individual tracks by artist on the ipod, how do you fix it so that the compilation appears as an album?

Thanks.

You'll need to make sure that the "Album artist" field is set to the same value for all the tracks of your compilation album. Then it will appear in the iPod only as a single album.

[bluenation]

Hi guys,

I was following the guide at http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.p ... _ipod_sync, and I got stuck at the part "With your iPod still plugged in, go to the device configuration for your device within MM, accessible as shown below". It's because my MM is having some issues detecting my iphone 4s. I have the latest Itunes open, and it detects my 4s just fine.
Here is a pic.


Anything Im doing wrong? My PC is Vista 64bit, if that matters.

[Lowlander]

Are you using the latest beta of MediaMonkey 4.0.5: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 13#p339213 ? It is the only MediaMonkey version to support the iPhone 4s.

[bluenation]

thanks for the new file suggestion. now my 4s is recognized.

but now it seems i have issues with non-recognized file formats:


didnt MM support more formats than Itunes?

[Lowlander]

MediaMonkey may support more formats than iTunes, but it doesn't change what the device itself supports (which is independent of what iTunes or MediaMonkey supports).

[Guest]

indeed, but i know .flv files is possible in 4s (but not in default Itunes), because i have .flv files in another app in my iphone. Im pretty sure .flv and a few other file formats is possible in MM, i just am not sure why it throws up an error message.

[Lowlander]

I would presume that you'd have to sync them to the other apps and not the default iPhone media location. The device itself doesn't support this format (it's actually infamous for lack of Flash support) and I think MediaMonkey can only sync to default video/music app. At least in my experience when using non-supported formats on iPod Touch the application was using an alternative location.

[Guest]

i see.

FYI the app i used to receive .flv files used the "File Sharing" part of Itunes. Other than that, I found no other way for Itunes to accept other formats.

ah well.

[lisaaldridge]

I have just upgraded from MM3 to MM4. I have an iPod Touch 2nd Gen (software version 4.2.1) and iTunes 10.6.1.7

Having synced just one album through MM I went back to iTunes to sync Calendar and iTunes says it can't read the database on the device and I need to restore it. I've restored it and tried again and exactley the same thing has happened. What is MM doing to my iPod?!

I've gone through the iPod Sync Guide on the MM Wiki but some of the Device Configuration options are (out of date?) different in MM4. I specifically can't find the "Force i-Tunes Style Folders" and I wondered if this is the root of the problem?

The really irritating thing is that I upgraded from MM3 to 4 this morning becasue MM3 had stopped detecting the device. MM4 has solved that but created an even bigger problem and I seem to have lost all my playlists in the process of upgrading...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Lowlander]

Are you using MediaMonkey 4.0.6.1501 which is the latest release?

[lisaaldridge]

Yes that version seems to have fixed it thank you . I only downloaded my upgrade yesterday and it gave me 4.0.5. Can you remove the old version (MediaMonkey_4.0.5.1496.exe) so it cannot be downloaded by another poor unsuspecting user. I don't know if there is an outdated link or something that I managed to get to because I went through the "Existing Gold Users Click Here". Thankfully I had only just backed up my ipod so no data lost.....right now off to see if I can find those missing playlists....

[Sebastian78]

Hi, tried searching but couldn't find the answer.

I have several playlists and sub-playlists. Example: I have "Fitness" as a playlist, inside that I have "Running - Distance" "Running - HiiT" "Weights" etc.

When I sync or "send to device", the tracks gets copied over, but not the playlist. How do I get this? I don't care if the playlist-tree isn't copied over to the device (iPod), but I don't want a messy playlist-tree in Mediamonkey.

Cheers

[Lowlander]

Make sure you're using MediaMonkey 4.0.6 (it does have a bug for some where the last Playlist fails to show on Apple Devices).

[subtleknife666]

I'm not very good with this sort of thing, alas. My MP3 player is an old iPod Photo, purchased around 2005, with a capacity of 60GB -- I've never come anywhere near using more than 60% of that.

I recently created a rather large number of playlists in MediaMonkey. However, there are a lot of tracks in the Library which don't relate to any of my playlists.

I would like to know whether there's a way for me to tell the program to delete all those tracks which I have not incorporated into playlists, or move them into a special folder; and I would also like to know whether, by default, when MediaMonkey syncs my iPod, it copies the entire library to the iPod, or only those tracks which are in my playlists.

Thanks.

[Lowlander]

1) You can create an Auto-Playlist with criteria Playlist is not and then select all Playlists. This gives you a Playlist with tracks not on any of your Playlists. Then you can select all the files and use Tools > Auto-Organize Files to move the files if you need to.

2) You need to select what to sync in the Device Profile. You can sync everything or Playlists or any subset of your Library.