ITunes overwrites tracks evaluation, does not sync?
This topic is about a problem experienced when connecting my iPod Touch 2G (3.0 iPhone OS) to the MacBook.
I configured iTunes to synchronize an intelligent playlist on the iPod, and only this list. However, all the grades I put on each track while listening to them on the iPod are reset to none when I plug the iPod in iTunes. If a song I previously graded is still sent to the iPod, its grade is removed.
Is that e normal behavior? If no, how can I prevent it from happenning and keep syncronization ability?
Partial answer to this question:
it appears as, if a playlist is updated first on the Mac AND it bears the same name on the iPod, then it is overwritten in the iPod and track evaluations are not written back to iTunes.
A workaround is to sync once before changing a playlist, change playlist, then sync once again to get the new track. The first pass syncs evaluation and other stuff, as configured, but doesn't transfer new tracks, as these are not changed. The second actually transfers new tracks, but both passes can be long.
It's cumbersome, but the only way I found to record this data back in iTunes.
If there's way to rate tracks in an iPod, there should be one to cleanly sync it back to iTunes, especially since an iPod cannot use ratings to create playlists (iTunes does it for it).
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