Ryan Nichol
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The syncing is soo annoying i have a freakish OCD with album artwork on my songs and when i transfer them over to my lumia 820 some of the covers dont show, and some are on a tottally different song so annoying -_-
I have it on good authority that the Zune player is dead at Microsoft there will be no effort put into making it work with WP8.
They are working on getting the WP8 app completed, because they want an app that will work from the app store and not require the desktop to install.
Moved this from here as I didn't know whether to create a new thread and didn't want to clutter up the one it was in:
http://forums.windowscentral.com/wi...p8;-here-apps-i-use-former-iphone-4-user.html
Seems like it's some of the AAC files not showing up on the phone.
Created a new playlist in Media Monkey "Classic Rock Music" (MP3 files) and synced 3 artists and everything is showing up.
Now here is where it gets really weird. "Blondie > Dead Air > Dead Air" (Artist/Album/Song) is showing up as "Heatmiser > Dead Air > Dead Air" (A/A/S) in the Music App even though the directory is correct in the phone.
WTH?
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Same here; I'm VERY particular about my music to the point I've downloaded my own album covers and embedded them with MP3tag, but either WinPhone, Windows Media Player, or the Sync tool have decided that some of the images and/or tags in my songs have been "updated" and that AGGRAVATES ME TO NO END.The syncing is soo annoying i have a freakish OCD with album artwork on my songs and when i transfer them over to my lumia 820 some of the covers dont show, and some are on a tottally different song so annoying -_-
What I liked about iTunes, which was missing from Zune and WMP, is to simply have the option to sync only check/marked songs. With this feature, I could easily see what was on my device even with it not plugged in. All I had to do what check a box next to each song that I wanted on my device, or uncheck it if I wanted it off. So simple! There was also an option within each song to "skip when shuffling". I miss this as well. I have children’s songs and audio books in my collection and when I shuffle my songs, I do not want to hear the ABC song or a book.
Interesting as what I am raging over losing from my Zune software was the automatic syncing (and un-syncing) of music I had checked. It was a right click but that's pretty much it. I'd right click song x, album y, groups of songs, artists, genres, etc., and tell it I want this to sync to my device and from then on, I never had to think about it. (I also never had to plug it in to my computer because of wifi sync.) If I had clicked to have genre x sync to my device and later remove some songs from that genre, it'd just autosync. If I changed metadata in that genre, it'd autosync it. WMP I agree, is manual yuck sync but Zune syncing for WP7 was absolutely incredible. The sync was almost an afterthought. (That said, I don't know what it was like to non WP7 or Zune devices.)
Seems like it's some of the AAC files not showing up on the phone.
Created a new playlist in Media Monkey "Classic Rock Music" (MP3 files) and synced 3 artists and everything is showing up.
Now here is where it gets really weird. "Blondie > Dead Air > Dead Air" (Artist/Album/Song) is showing up as "Heatmiser > Dead Air > Dead Air" (A/A/S) in the Music App even though the directory is correct in the phone.
WTH?
This week I swapped the 16GB card out for a 32GB card and then everything stopped working when I tried to sync. I formatted the card in the phone and in the desktop but the WP8 app would just give me errors. I also tried Windows Media Player to sync but it would never see the phone. Also the camera app on the phone would crash every time I took a picture with the SD card set as the storage location.
I did a hard reset of the phone with the 32GB card in it and now everything is working as it should. From my experience I would say MS/Nokia has an issue with SD cards that are not in the phone from the first startup. If anything changes I will repost but I have used the sync app a few times since the hard reset and have not had any issues.