Having had a squeezebox for several years, I realise I would use it more/better if I could synchronise my music better.
To explain: I have loads of flac files on my windows server which runs the squeezebox in my living room. I did a one time convert to mp3 to populate my itunes library on my mac to sync to my ipod and phone (not iphone). But there is no synchronisation between the 2. New albums ripped to flac (via EAC) don't appear in itunes, unless I do it manually. Any playcount data from my ipod doesn't reflect into my squeezebox. Playlists created on the squeezebox aren't available in itunes or ipod. Ratings of songs in itunes aren't available in squeezebox. Consequently I don't use any of the playlist/ratings functionality. So I dig around, I could convert FLAC to ALAC and point my laptop itunes library (it's too big to store on the laptop) to the server, but then when I sync to my ipod it would copy the lossless files to my ipod which is only 2GB, so that's not good. I could use the many scripts available to convert FLAC to mp3 automatically, but itunes doesn't watch folders so I would still have to manually import the mp3 files. I'd have up-to-date music in my library but it wouldn't transfer the playcounts and playlists. I'm lost with this, is there a way round it? Ideally I want a FLAC or ALAC itunes library on my windows box, a MP3 itunes library on my macbook and for them to share the metadata. I then want my squeezebox to work via the itunes library on my windows server. Want, want, want eh? Do I need to learn to program? -- sdevans ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sdevans's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1867 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53003 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
