by BJE » Fri Nov 12, 2010 6:04 am
Well, heres a twist - I erased all 56GB of the music from my iTouch so I could copy that folder for Jiri (before and after a sync), but when looking at the folder that Jiri asked for with Total Commander I noticed it had about 1.5GB of album art in it that had not been deleted for some reason, and there was also about 30MB of files in what looked like a backup subdirectory...
1. So in for a penny in for a pound - I decided I should start from a complete system Restore.
2. When finally done I closed iTunes and opened MM
3. Synced a couple of tracks. Exited MM and looked at result on iTouch and everything looked fine (so no need to connect to iTunes). Took the snapshot that Jiri asked for but the sync seemed to have worked fine so maybe a bit pointless.
4. Opened MM again and synced 300 more tracks. Exited MM and looked at result on iTouch, this time I seen a full library build occur (have only seen that happen once before and it did not seem to complete), and lo and behold once the library build had completed all tracks and album art appeared fine. So no need to connect to iTunes this time either.
5. Out of curiosity I opened iTunes and noticed an immediate but very quick sync occur as soon as it detected the iTouch (took just a couple of seconds) - never noticed that before either, but maybe it did and I just haven't noticed it. Closed iTunes and checked my music on the iTouch and still all good (no auto library rebuild occurred, which used to always be the case)
6. Opened MM again selected approx another 9000 tracks and deselected half of those already on the iTouch then synced. When it finally completed, closed MM, opened Music on iTouch, waited for the library rebuild, and when completed checked all album art etc and all appeared present and correct.
7. Repeated step 5 and observed same results.
So the iTouch system Restore via iTunes in conjunction with the beta dll seems to have cleared away whatever was causing my previous issues and I no longer need to connect to iTunes to trigger a rebuild of the music library.
BTW all of the above was with the current production build of MM + the beta dll - Have not tried the new beta of MM yet.
Well, heres a twist - I erased all 56GB of the music from my iTouch so I could copy that folder for Jiri (before and after a sync), but when looking at the folder that Jiri asked for with Total Commander I noticed it had about 1.5GB of album art in it that had not been deleted for some reason, and there was also about 30MB of files in what looked like a backup subdirectory...
1. So in for a penny in for a pound - I decided I should start from a complete system Restore.
2. When finally done I closed iTunes and opened MM
3. Synced a couple of tracks. Exited MM and looked at result on iTouch and everything looked fine (so no need to connect to iTunes). Took the snapshot that Jiri asked for but the sync seemed to have worked fine so maybe a bit pointless.
4. Opened MM again and synced 300 more tracks. Exited MM and looked at result on iTouch, this time I seen a full library build occur (have only seen that happen once before and it did not seem to complete), and lo and behold once the library build had completed all tracks and album art appeared fine. So no need to connect to iTunes this time either.
5. Out of curiosity I opened iTunes and noticed an immediate but very quick sync occur as soon as it detected the iTouch (took just a couple of seconds) - never noticed that before either, but maybe it did and I just haven't noticed it. Closed iTunes and checked my music on the iTouch and still all good (no auto library rebuild occurred, which used to always be the case)
6. Opened MM again selected approx another 9000 tracks and deselected half of those already on the iTouch then synced. When it finally completed, closed MM, opened Music on iTouch, waited for the library rebuild, and when completed checked all album art etc and all appeared present and correct.
7. Repeated step 5 and observed same results.
So the iTouch system Restore via iTunes in conjunction with the beta dll seems to have cleared away whatever was causing my previous issues and I no longer need to connect to iTunes to trigger a rebuild of the music library.
BTW all of the above was with the current production build of MM + the beta dll - Have not tried the new beta of MM yet.