by pingel88 » Sun Jun 23, 2019 4:26 pm
Hello all.
I've been running MediaMonkey for about a decade now and had few issues.
About 2 years ago, I got my 7G 160GB iPod wet and killed the HD in it. Rather than spending $100 on another HD, I decided to try iFLASH's HD replacement kits; specifically the iFlash-Quad, a 4 MicroSD hard drive replacement board. I initially put the board in with a single 200GB MicroSD card and it worked flawlessly. It made my iPod better in every way. It synced faster, ran longer, weighed literally half as much and was just better. Here's where the problem starts. Last week, I was near to filling that 186GB (2.4GB free) of formatted space and decided that it was time to buy and add a second 200GB card to my iPod. After that addition was done, I repeated the steps of "restoring" the iPod with iTunes and then tried to re-sync it with MediaMonkey. It got to around 120GB, then froze up. I closed it and tried again and the display at the bottom of the Summary page for my iPod then said something like 25GB of other files and 95GB of music. I clicked auto-sync again and it added about a thousand more songs then froze again. The entire (LOOONNNNNNNG) process was attempted from a fresh restore 3 more times with similar results. Every time that I tried to sync, it would get to a random amount of music successfully synced and then freeze up. Afterwards, a portion of the music would be shown as "Other" rather than music. I even tried separately reformatting both cards as FAT32 drives, as recommended on the iFLASH page:
https://www.iflash.xyz/prepare-sdxc-exf ... -the-ipod/
It's important to note that through-out this entire process, after the initial restore with iTunes, Windows Explorer, Paragon Disk Manager, iTunes, MediaMonkey, and a few other programs all showed that I had 366GB of usable space. This means that formatting wasn't and isn't the issue.
I got fed up after 4 days of failed syncing attempts and decided that I was going to just switch programs.
I mean, it's been nearly a decade; time to try something new, right? I did about 5 hours of research and decided on MusicBee. Got it. Imported my library, failing to keep a single play count for any of my songs. Synced my iPod. It took about 9 hours, but IT WORKED! The problem is, I just don't like their interface as much and I DO NOT want to lose my TENS OF THOUSANDS of play count plays. What good would the 8 different "Top Played" playlists I made be then!?!
I've narrowed the issue down to the fact that MediaMonkey can not and will not synchronize with a JBOD drive system. It seems to be syncing up to ONE of the cards successfully and then losing track of all of the stuff that it puts on the second card. Does anyone have any idea at all how I can get this to work? I could just switch to a single 400GB card, but that kind of defeats the purpose have having the quad adapter; plus I already HAVE these two cards...
Hello all.
I've been running MediaMonkey for about a decade now and had few issues.
About 2 years ago, I got my 7G 160GB iPod wet and killed the HD in it. Rather than spending $100 on another HD, I decided to try iFLASH's HD replacement kits; specifically the iFlash-Quad, a 4 MicroSD hard drive replacement board. I initially put the board in with a single 200GB MicroSD card and it worked flawlessly. It made my iPod better in every way. It synced faster, ran longer, weighed literally half as much and was just better. Here's where the problem starts. Last week, I was near to filling that 186GB (2.4GB free) of formatted space and decided that it was time to buy and add a second 200GB card to my iPod. After that addition was done, I repeated the steps of "restoring" the iPod with iTunes and then tried to re-sync it with MediaMonkey. It got to around 120GB, then froze up. I closed it and tried again and the display at the bottom of the Summary page for my iPod then said something like 25GB of other files and 95GB of music. I clicked auto-sync again and it added about a thousand more songs then froze again. The entire (LOOONNNNNNNG) process was attempted from a fresh restore 3 more times with similar results. Every time that I tried to sync, it would get to a random amount of music successfully synced and then freeze up. Afterwards, a portion of the music would be shown as "Other" rather than music. I even tried separately reformatting both cards as FAT32 drives, as recommended on the iFLASH page: https://www.iflash.xyz/prepare-sdxc-exfat-for-use-with-the-ipod/
It's important to note that through-out this entire process, after the initial restore with iTunes, Windows Explorer, Paragon Disk Manager, iTunes, MediaMonkey, and a few other programs all showed that I had 366GB of usable space. This means that formatting wasn't and isn't the issue.
I got fed up after 4 days of failed syncing attempts and decided that I was going to just switch programs. :x I mean, it's been nearly a decade; time to try something new, right? I did about 5 hours of research and decided on MusicBee. Got it. Imported my library, failing to keep a single play count for any of my songs. Synced my iPod. It took about 9 hours, but IT WORKED! The problem is, I just don't like their interface as much and I DO NOT want to lose my TENS OF THOUSANDS of play count plays. What good would the 8 different "Top Played" playlists I made be then!?! :lol:
I've narrowed the issue down to the fact that MediaMonkey can not and will not synchronize with a JBOD drive system. It seems to be syncing up to ONE of the cards successfully and then losing track of all of the stuff that it puts on the second card. Does anyone have any idea at all how I can get this to work? I could just switch to a single 400GB card, but that kind of defeats the purpose have having the quad adapter; plus I already HAVE these two cards...