I find the greatest improvement with MSC that I can update the tags on the player. With MTP, I have to delete the songs off the player, update the tags on my computer, then copy the songs back to the player. This is not only time-consuming, but it makes it difficult to have tags that differ on the two. I like to tag my new music with a genre of “New Albums”, so everything that I’ve recently placed on the player is all together. After its been on there awhile, I change the genre to what it would normally be long-term.
@bdb wrote:
I find the greatest improvement with MSC that I can update the tags on the player. With MTP, I have to delete the songs off the player, update the tags on my computer, then copy the songs back to the player. This is not only time-consuming, but it makes it difficult to have tags that differ on the two. I like to tag my new music with a genre of “New Albums”, so everything that I’ve recently placed on the player is all together. After its been on there awhile, I change the genre to what it would normally be long-term.
Yes, that’s another instance of execute-in-place that MTP lacks.
Is there anyway to not make all of the music on my computer try to sync onto my Fuze? I can’t take it off the sync list…
@riolist wrote:
what is all this functionality you speak of?
How about working on any modern operating system instead of Windows only? How about execute-in-place so you can plug your player into any other computer (not Windows only machines) and use its audio system to play your media? How about the ability to format? How about the ability to upload to the player and download from the player any content you wish?
MTP takes all of that away. That may be OK with you, it’s not with me.
Message Edited by Riolist on 05-14-2008 05:48 PM
i can see your point about the OS other than windows (i use mac and pc at home but just use force msc button combo when connecting to my mac) but your other points are issues that dont effect me. i only use my mp3 players for storing music, pictures, and videos i do not see the point in saving word documents to the player. that is what flash drives are for. all of my music files are on my pc and the library is shared to all my computers over the network so playing songs from the device over the pc audio is also not an issue.
FYI you can format the player in MTP mode.
either way to each his own.
@bdb wrote:
I find the greatest improvement with MSC that I can update the tags on the player. With MTP, I have to delete the songs off the player, update the tags on my computer, then copy the songs back to the player. This is not only time-consuming, but it makes it difficult to have tags that differ on the two. I like to tag my new music with a genre of “New Albums”, so everything that I’ve recently placed on the player is all together. After its been on there awhile, I change the genre to what it would normally be long-term.
i just use the recently added selection in the music menu.
@drlucky wrote:
i can see your point about the OS other than windows (i use mac and pc at home but just use force msc button combo when connecting to my mac) but your other points are issues that dont effect me. i only use my mp3 players for storing music, pictures, and videos i do not see the point in saving word documents to the player. that is what flash drives are for. all of my music files are on my pc and the library is shared to all my computers over the network so playing songs from the device over the pc audio is also not an issue.
FYI you can format the player in MTP mode.
either way to each his own.
For some reason I don’t see a format option when i’m connected in MTP mode. Anyway, I just don’t see the point of MTP, except in the case of DRM files. If you use them, then fine, MTP makes sense because it’s the only option. But for any other kind of file transfer MSC is simpler, more open, and more universal, and occasionally considerably less trouble.
I had this problem as well. Every time I tried to play a song it just skipped to the next track. Using Windows Media Player 10, WMAPro 96K w/ no copy protection. Verified the tracks had no copy protection. Verified tracks played on the PC. Tested multiple ripping formats - all with same result.
Resolution: Change the USB mode to MSC
Format the device
Resynch
Album art no longer functions, but the music does.
Aha, I will work on that.
No album art depresses me. It looks weird without it.
for those having playback issues with WMA and have the following happen: the files just skip and refuse to play, here is some info that may help out.
WMA files when ripped from CD with Windows Media Player have to be synced with that application’s version. it doesn’t matter if its protected or not protected, the license information still exists. You cannot interchange between WMP, IE: if you ripped with WMP10 you cannot sync with WMP11 and vice versa. If you perform drag n drop with these files, the files do not get licensed by microsoft and become unplayable. they will skip on the devices.
the work around is to rip cds in mp3 format.
