by Triponi » Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:20 pm
I too have this problem intermittently (with an iPod nano second gen). It's difficult to replicate as it only seems to happen some of the time. However, with a bit of experimenting, I currently believe that it only seems to fail to update play counts/time last played if I modified any song's rating on my iPod.
A good experiment (although I have not yet tried it) would be to modify the rating on the PC rather than iPod and see if that caused a sync failure. Basically, my working theory is that if any of the meta data of the songs in the database changes (other than play count and time) MM gets confused and gives up the whole process.
I've seen a few threads like this, so if we start trying to simplify the problem down to some defined repeatable steps that will help the bug fixers. If someone else confirms that this seems a likely diagnosis on my part, I'll try and get some steps together...
Triponi
I too have this problem intermittently (with an iPod nano second gen). It's difficult to replicate as it only seems to happen some of the time. However, with a bit of experimenting, I currently believe that it only seems to fail to update play counts/time last played if I modified any song's rating on my iPod.
A good experiment (although I have not yet tried it) would be to modify the rating on the PC rather than iPod and see if that caused a sync failure. Basically, my working theory is that if any of the meta data of the songs in the database changes (other than play count and time) MM gets confused and gives up the whole process.
I've seen a few threads like this, so if we start trying to simplify the problem down to some defined repeatable steps that will help the bug fixers. If someone else confirms that this seems a likely diagnosis on my part, I'll try and get some steps together...
Triponi