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Playlist Sync is an extension for Microsoft ActiveSync. It copies the MP3 list to the Pocket PC. The playlists that it recognises on the PC are Winamp, Windows Media Player and the Shoutcast/Icecast. On the Pocket PC side it creates a Windows Media Player list.
The time of transfer is configurable, as is the directory to use on the PC and the Pocket PC: you don't have to use the standard ActiveSync directory on the PC, and you can even point it to the Pocket PC's storage card. Also it is possible to happily prepare the lists on the PC, without having to worry about the placement of the mp3, then transfer everything to the Pocket PC!
There is only one problem: you can only manage one list at a time, which takes a bit of fiddling around to overcome this limitation (see below).
Note: A little How To on managing multiple playlists.
- On the PC, you need to place the lists in different directories (eg. Rock\Rock.asx, Dance\Dance.asx, ...).
- On the PPC, you need to create as many directory as playlists, placing a "Playlist" directory inside each as Playlist Sync requires it (eg. Storage Card\Rock\Playlist, \Dance\Playlist, ...).
- To synchronise, set the parameters in Playlist Sync: on the PC ("as Source folder": eg. \Rock\) and on the PPC ("as target folder": eg. \Rock\Playlist)
- After synchronisation, you must rename the "Playlist" directory on the PPC which was just synchronised (eg. \Rock\Playlist to \Rock\playlist.old)
- in this manner, you can synchronise another list without overwriting anything, and you get around the normal functionality of Playlist Sync which thinks that if you've set a new list, you don't want to save the previous one
- To list to music on the PPC or synchronise a new list, you have to reset the original name "playlist" on the PPC (eg. \rock\playlist.old to \rock\playlist).
- In Windows Media Player on the PPC, there are many playlists that the same name "rotating playlist" (which point to "playlist" directories and not "playlist.old"). What's more, with this method, you don't have a true synchronisation in the sense that a file overwritten on the list on the PC without not be on the PPC. But that's not a major problem!
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(Translation: ashmoo)
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