by AnOldFella » Sun Aug 26, 2018 6:25 pm
I made this final posting only so that, in the future, anyone seaching the forum who runs acrossed it knows how it turned out for me.
While trying to chase down this issue, I did discover that I had 37 non-music files scattered throughout my music directories. I also found 17 .m4a files that MM4 would play, but not sync, so I converted them to .mp3. However, correcting these issues didn't solve the problem.
Using MM4 to sync my iPod starts out normal, but randomly slows to where it takes several minutes to copy a single song and hours to complete. It doesn't matter if I sync 15 or 15,000 tracks. After completing a sync that slows down this way, MM4 corrupts iTunes on the iPod. The iPod shows no music even though it's all actually still there. The iPod then can't be read by iTunes on the PC and I have to reset it back to factory and start all over again.
After spending over 40 hrs. on this issue, I finally give up trying to sync my iPod using MM4. I ended up using MM to convert all my .flac to .mp3., then did a complete load of everything into iTunes. iTunes will repeatedly sync my iPod with almost 15k of very high bitrate mp3 tracks in about 3 hrs. without errors.
This isn't the solution I had hoped for as I really like MM, but I'm not going to keep wasting this much time when I want to sync my iPod Classics. Going forward, I'll only use MM to manage my music library and play music at my computer or over my home network.
I made this final posting only so that, in the future, anyone seaching the forum who runs acrossed it knows how it turned out for me.
While trying to chase down this issue, I did discover that I had 37 non-music files scattered throughout my music directories. I also found 17 .m4a files that MM4 would play, but not sync, so I converted them to .mp3. However, correcting these issues didn't solve the problem.
Using MM4 to sync my iPod starts out normal, but randomly slows to where it takes several minutes to copy a single song and hours to complete. It doesn't matter if I sync 15 or 15,000 tracks. After completing a sync that slows down this way, MM4 corrupts iTunes on the iPod. The iPod shows no music even though it's all actually still there. The iPod then can't be read by iTunes on the PC and I have to reset it back to factory and start all over again.
After spending over 40 hrs. on this issue, I finally give up trying to sync my iPod using MM4. I ended up using MM to convert all my .flac to .mp3., then did a complete load of everything into iTunes. iTunes will repeatedly sync my iPod with almost 15k of very high bitrate mp3 tracks in about 3 hrs. without errors.
This isn't the solution I had hoped for as I really like MM, but I'm not going to keep wasting this much time when I want to sync my iPod Classics. Going forward, I'll only use MM to manage my music library and play music at my computer or over my home network.