So I just got a Lumia 920 last week, and it's been a blast, I couldn't say one bad thing about Windows Phone 8 ... Until I tried syncing my music to the device. I've used iOS and I've used Android, I've had several portable multimedia devices. This is easily the worst experience I've had trying to get music to and from the device.
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, and I hope you guys can set me straight.
So I made a playlist in iTunes of the music I wanted to sync to my phone. I then downloaded the Windows Phone 8 desktop app and tried syncing my music via iTunes.
While it worked, my metadata/tags were all messed up ... Does Windows Phone 8 try to auto correct Music metadata/tags? What I'm seeing is the album "channel ORANGE" appearing twice as "channel ORANGE" and "channel ORANGE (deluxe)" and songs will just randomly populate either album. I am anal retentive about my metadata and I use an ID3 editor to manage my tags (I doubt this is my fault, in iTunes and the editor the tags appear alright, it's not until I sync it to the phone that I see the discrepancies).
Anyway, I decided to remove all the music from the device and try again. But the damn desktop app doesn't even have a "select all" checkmark, so I opted to use Windows Explorer and just batch delete them from the Phone's music directory (it worked, but according to Windows explorer the files are still on the phone, it couldn't delete them all but they're gone from the phone).
How do you guys sync music. I'm really really regretting my purchase right now, I need a pain free workflow for syncing music else this is not going to work out.
Thank you!
Perhaps I'm doing something wrong, and I hope you guys can set me straight.
So I made a playlist in iTunes of the music I wanted to sync to my phone. I then downloaded the Windows Phone 8 desktop app and tried syncing my music via iTunes.
While it worked, my metadata/tags were all messed up ... Does Windows Phone 8 try to auto correct Music metadata/tags? What I'm seeing is the album "channel ORANGE" appearing twice as "channel ORANGE" and "channel ORANGE (deluxe)" and songs will just randomly populate either album. I am anal retentive about my metadata and I use an ID3 editor to manage my tags (I doubt this is my fault, in iTunes and the editor the tags appear alright, it's not until I sync it to the phone that I see the discrepancies).
Anyway, I decided to remove all the music from the device and try again. But the damn desktop app doesn't even have a "select all" checkmark, so I opted to use Windows Explorer and just batch delete them from the Phone's music directory (it worked, but according to Windows explorer the files are still on the phone, it couldn't delete them all but they're gone from the phone).
How do you guys sync music. I'm really really regretting my purchase right now, I need a pain free workflow for syncing music else this is not going to work out.
Thank you!