Thanks for the summary - that helps a lot. It might be useful to copy some of that extra information into your TrackStat wiki page for others that are interested in syncing stats with iTunes.
>In contrast to the other options, TrackStat has a path and extension >mapping mechanism which makes it possible to store the music library in >different main directories in iTunes and SlimServer and also to have >different extensions. > When a path and extension mapping has been set up, does this apply to all music, or just files/extensions that don't exist in iTunes? For example, all of my mp3 files will have the same path in both SlimServer and iTunes, so no remapping of path is required. I assume that only one remapping instruction is available, so if I have ripped extra copies of music sometimes to m4a and other times to mp3, I would need to be consistent change change to use one music format for iTunes. The base path that is configured - does this replace the SlimServer music library path? The problem I may have here is that my SlimServer music library folder only contains shortcuts to the various folders that I store my music in. Eg. SlimServer Music Library="M:\Music\Slimserver\Music\". That folder contains a shortcut that points to "M:\Music\Phil's Music", containing mp3 and flac files roughly in "artist\album\track" heirarchy. There are other shortcuts that point to other source folders (but "Phil's Music" is the one I am most likely going to want to sync with iTunes). My iTunes music library is in "M:\Music\iTunes\Phil\". This should hold the same "artist\album\track" heirarchy for files that I transcode specifically for iTunes. Do I need to rename my iTunes folder to "M:\Music\iTunes\Phil's Music\", such that "M:\Music\" gets converted to "M:\Music\iTunes\"? >- An iPod plugin which makes it possible to configure which SlimServer >music to synchronize with the iPod and setup smart playlists for the >iPod directly from SlimServer. The synchronization part will be based >on GNUpod. The primary goal for the plugin is Linux, but if it doesn't >get too complicated and there is an interest I might make a Windows >version too. It might even work out of the box on Windows, I'm not >completely sure which limitations GNUpod has on the target platform >yet. That sounds really good! I too only use iTunes for syncing with an iPod (and for downloading some podcasts that I want to sync with iPod). Phil _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
