#1. MM5 does not keep the UI consistent following a sync
* D&S>Device
* select an album, and sync to the phone
* the UI shows that the album has tracks sync'd to the phone, but does not show that the AlbumArtist has tracks sync'd to the phone.
* this is fixed when I close and re-open MM5
#2. Not very robust; MM5 is confused if I manually delete, from the phone, tracks which I previously sync'd there using MM5
MM5 seems to scan my phone, but doesn't recognise and fix any relevant changes made outside MM.
- sync some tracks to the phone using MM5
- close MM5
- use Windows Explorer to clear phone's /Music folder
- reboot phone
- open MM5, and sync->Device
- the deleted tracks are not restored to the phone ==> MM5 allows sync w/o error, but the MM5 view remains inconsistent which what is on the phone
- The UI shows that tracks from this custom index have been sync'd to the phone, but its list of sync'd items is empty
- if I open|close the albums node, I can now see that some albums have been sync'd, but the Album Artist node remains empty
- if I scroll down, I find an artist who appears to have tracks sync'd to the phone ... if I open this album artist node, I can see which album
- this triggers something, because when I go back to top level view, MM5 now knows about all albumArtists who had albums sync'd to the phone
- ie. by opening and shutting lots of nodes I can get the UI to look as expected .... but the tracks are still not restored to my phone
#3. MM5 does not house-keep very well
- decide to delete the phantom sync entries from MM5 ... ie. those mentioned above, where MM5 thinks that they are sync'd to the phone, but the tracks and their folders are not on the phone
- tell MM5 that you are going to sync the whole index to the device
- it complains that there is insufficient space, but ask it to start regardless
- use MM to cancel that huge sync
- deselect the while index, and restart the sync
- it now (correctly) shows that the tracks are not sync'd to the phone
- the the tracks which were not on my phone, are still not there, but MM5 has created (???) an /albumartist/album folder for everything that it didn't have to delete, and put an albumart.jpg file there??
#4. Incorrect advice?
I saw this error a couple of times ... rebooting the device has never been enough ... this error is cleared only if I reboot the PC
#5. The Hide Unselected Items toggle button is confusing
the button remains in its state when clicked
but if I navigate to a node, which was last open in the other state (ie. I am in Album node, and I have checked the button ... and then I navigate to elsewhere like the AlbumArtist node, AND the button was unchecked when it was previously opened
==> the UI is confusing ... I need to re-toggle the button once or twice to get a consistent display
#6. Nagging from Android
Your Sync All Artwork To File Folder option can be annoying if there is not a .nomedia file in /Music
ie. the album art clogs up Google Photos with a "folder" for every album in GooglePhotos>DeviceFolders, and there is nagging about Backup&Sync to Google drive for every album sync'd to the phone
Should you create a .nomedia file in /Music folder if there isn't already one there?
#7. I experienced some crashes
Here are a couple of them
