I am trying to overhaul my auto sync playlists. I started with these
playsts:
- 4 or 5 stars (the defaut one)
- All Music
The above just managed to fit all my songs on my device (a 8GB microSDHC
card) ... it was 99% full. I have now set up my own auto playlists because
I want to be a bit more selective about the music on my device. I removed
the above two playlists completely and then added the auto playlists I
created all in one step:
- 5 star
- 4 star
- 3 star
- 2 star
- Unrated
The goal here was to delete all the music I had rated as '1 star'. I
figured what would happen is that WMP11 would scan the music already on my
device that it was aware of (seeing as I used WMP11 sync to put it there in
the first place), notice that all of the music specified in these new
playlists already existed on the device, and then notice that some songs
(namely the 1 star ones) were no longer required on the device and remove
them.
To my dismay instead it made a sync list in the "sync results" pane that
listed all the new playlist songs as if they had never been synced to the
device in the first place. Naturally the synch for all these songs failed
because there was essentially no room left on the card. It said "did not
fit on device" for every single one of them instead of "already on device",
which is what I was expecting. On top of that, it did not delete the 1 star
songs from the device like I was expecting.
Does anyone know why this is and how I can fix it? I am expecting to much
from WMP. This seemed like a fairly basic thing to me and I expected it to
be as smooth as butter. By the way I am using Vista 32 Premium. Has anyone
gotten a similar setup with a large auto-sync playlist change like this to
work properly?