Music Syncing?

[crzyone01]

Does anyone know how I can only sync the music that xbox music has not "matched" to my phone? While I am loving WP8 the software in Windows 8 needs some serious attention. The connector app seems to have so few options to do anything.

EDIT: Secondary question. With WP 7.5 and Zune there was a way to not sync songs that have the "broken heart" rating, does such an option exist yet fro WP8 and/or Xbox Music?

 

[rangerdogy]

You can search on sync --- there have been a few threads on this.

Short answer --- Windows Media Player can set up a sync to only sync files with a star rating (behind the scenes, the Zune player was putting 4-star or 5-star ratings on the liked songs and 0 stars on the broken heart songs; you can set a sync rule to look at the star ratings).

 

[crzyone01]

I have searched on "sync" and did not find my answer. I have tried both the desktop and metro apps. Is this something else MS screwed the WP8 beta testers on or am I just missing something?

 

[PG2G]

The Windows Phone 8 "App Preview" is pretty useless. There are no real options. It pretty much just copies files to and from the phone, there are no smarts to it. I have resorted to just doing it manually.

I'm sure it will develop into something more full featured (or replaced entirely), but it is what it is for now.

 

[Jukebox Team]

You could try Style Jukebox - it's free to upload 1000 songs and you can stream and download music for offline playback.