by Barry4679 » Wed Nov 20, 2019 8:25 am
Thanks for the info. I agree that these are not mainstream facilities, but they are hard to understand.
Ludek wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 4:37 am
#1 this generates playlists for albums when you selected albums on sync-list. If you selected artists then it generates playlists for artists.
I agree that this is not clear much, it is a very old feature that have been always presented in MM4. I guess that generating playlists for albums/artists was not used much anyway, it is probably useful only for storages and SD cards that are inserted in a car radio (not browseable by album). But for phones and iPods (that can list music by album) it is rather useless feature. i.e. I suppose that we don't plan to do anything further about this feature, though I agree that we should make this clearer, added some suggestions to improve the clearness here:
https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view ... 878#c55418
Good luck trying to clearly describe this overloaded function in the tiny space that you could afford in the UI.
Re your suggested description change .... I think "music selected by artist" is clearer than "selected artists" ... ie. the user may assume that if an album is explicitly selected, then that is also an implicit partial "selection" of the artist ... I think that my suggestion is a tiny bit less likely to add confusion to an already confusing situation.
There is some problem just leaving it to the User to select which playlists that they want you to generate? ... ie. if I check Generate Album, & also Artist, playlists, then you just follow these instructions regardless of how I selected the tracks?
Ludek wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 4:37 am
#2 the icons are not populated on sync, but after connecting the device. i.e. whenever the device is connected then the icons appears and whenever the device is disconnected then the icons disappear (as the device is no longer browsable). If this is not how it works for you then PM-me debug log.
I think that what I was seeing must have been a 1st through problem ... ie. I did a sync which copied tracks to my phone, then clicked on the "Music' icon on the Summary tab, and the device still appeared to be empty ... but it was OK once I navigated elsewhere in the Media Tree, and then returned to >D&S>MyPhone ... obviously more confusing than what you have implemented for GPM sync ... ie. I click the AllTracks icon on the GPM Remote Content tab, and you respond by scanning and building the requested display.
I can't replicate this now ... I will try again when I next install a fresh version of MM5
Wow, that is ugly ... is that migration of an old MM4 feature also?
Hopefully I don't understand what you were saying in that other thread.
It looked like what was being said was this:
- you give me a checkbox for sync from OtherMediaFiles - Video, which is defaulted to On
- And you provide a default for the Video sync to location on my phone
- But if I want to ensure that there is no video sync activity, I turn off the checkbox, that you provided ... but you ignore, and silently don't persist my action, because I didn't also reset the default location ... ?
Regardless of the fact that I obviously don't understand the purpose for these settings, I don't understand why there is a checkbox which I can alter, but where you don't persist my change.
Thanks for the info. I agree that these are not mainstream facilities, but they are hard to understand.
[quote=Ludek post_id=463128 time=1574242671 user_id=7319]
#1 this generates playlists for albums when you selected albums on sync-list. If you selected artists then it generates playlists for artists.
I agree that this is not clear much, it is a very old feature that have been always presented in MM4. I guess that generating playlists for albums/artists was not used much anyway, it is probably useful only for storages and SD cards that are inserted in a car radio (not browseable by album). But for phones and iPods (that can list music by album) it is rather useless feature. i.e. I suppose that we don't plan to do anything further about this feature, though I agree that we should make this clearer, added some suggestions to improve the clearness here: https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=15878#c55418
[/quote]
Good luck trying to clearly describe this overloaded function in the tiny space that you could afford in the UI.
Re your suggested description change .... I think "music selected by artist" is clearer than "selected artists" ... ie. the user may assume that if an album is explicitly selected, then that is also an implicit partial "selection" of the artist ... I think that my suggestion is a tiny bit less likely to add confusion to an already confusing situation.
There is some problem just leaving it to the User to select which playlists that they want you to generate? ... ie. if I check Generate Album, & also Artist, playlists, then you just follow these instructions regardless of how I selected the tracks?
[quote=Ludek post_id=463128 time=1574242671 user_id=7319]
#2 the icons are not populated on sync, but after connecting the device. i.e. whenever the device is connected then the icons appears and whenever the device is disconnected then the icons disappear (as the device is no longer browsable). If this is not how it works for you then PM-me debug log.
[/quote]
I think that what I was seeing must have been a 1st through problem ... ie. I did a sync which copied tracks to my phone, then clicked on the "Music' icon on the Summary tab, and the device still appeared to be empty ... but it was OK once I navigated elsewhere in the Media Tree, and then returned to >D&S>MyPhone ... obviously more confusing than what you have implemented for GPM sync ... ie. I click the AllTracks icon on the GPM Remote Content tab, and you respond by scanning and building the requested display.
I can't replicate this now ... I will try again when I next install a fresh version of MM5
[quote=Ludek post_id=463128 time=1574242671 user_id=7319]
#3 they are auto-populated from the target masks, you would need to exclude them from the target masks / location to completely disappear from the other media files section, it was discussed here: https://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=95356
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Wow, that is ugly ... is that migration of an old MM4 feature also?
Hopefully I don't understand what you were saying in that other thread.
It looked like what was being said was this:
[list]you give me a checkbox for sync [b]from[/b] OtherMediaFiles - Video, which is defaulted to On[/list]
[list]And you provide a default for the Video sync [b]to[/b] location on my phone[/list]
[list]All good so far[/list]
[list]But if I want to ensure that there is no video sync activity, I turn off the checkbox, that you provided ... but you ignore, and silently don't persist my action, because I didn't also reset the default location ... ?[/list]
Regardless of the fact that I obviously don't understand the purpose for these settings, I don't understand why there is a checkbox which I can alter, but where you don't persist my change.