Thread: Songbird officially supporting the N900 to sync music etc
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2010-01-06 , 12:18
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Originally Posted by ViciousXUSMC View Post
Just got songbird today its v1.4.3 now have not synced it to the N900 not sure if I want too

For me drag & drop works just fine since the N900 is a mass storage device, but since the N900 supports all the meta data and cover art it has sent me on a quest to embed the proper cover art and update all my tags on my music.

I just used folders in windows, would find the folder for the music I want and tell it to play in winamp. This kind of use is almost just like mass storage so it was natural to me, but now that I have about 1/3 of my stuff with cover art and updated tags it feels like its "going to waist" just using winamp and browsing to a folder for my music.

So saw how songbird works with the N900 and noticed how it filters by meta data and shows cover art, and thats the reason I am using it right now. Still feels a bit akward and I have a lot of japanese music that there is no way I can tag but meh.

So that side story aside, what benefits do I get for using a syncing program like songbird instead of just drag & drop the music I want?

I have more than 32GB of music so it cant all fit in the N900 so it cant just "sync" my whole music collection to the device.
I think the biggest reason to use a program like songbird is for playlists. With the playlists in songbird then you can just sync the playlist that you want and the playlist shows up in the media player.

The biggest thing before using songbird to sync till they fix the bug is to do a backup of your phone and copy your sounds folder to your pc. Then create a playlist that will fit on the device and then sync away.

The other issue I had with songbird was that it just dumped the music into the MyDocs folder so I ended up with hundreds of folders in there instead of it all being in MyDocs/Music. I did find out though on the songbird forums that if you create a Music folder under the MyDocs folder that songbird will sync to it instead of just dumping it all into the MyDocs folder. I haven't tried it yet but I was going to try it tonight to see if it works.
 

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