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Like many a user who has made the transition from the fairly neat (if locked down) world of iTunes, I'm after a reasonably painless way to sync or at least transfer my music to my new N900.

Things that I would like to work out of the box as much as possible:

• Playlists
• Album art
• Other metadata, such as ratings, last played time etc
• Automatic synchronization of newly added songs

Looking around there seems to be a few options. Can you help us find the best one?


BTW, my desktop runs Windows but cross-platform is clearly a plus...

The new version of songbird seems to work quite well for me, see this thread http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38253.

I second that, I love songbird.

third that, loving songbird.

connecting with usb cable and in mass media storage mode, the n900 and songbird can automatically sync a specified folder. it seems artwork also gets synced. don't know about playlists and metadata though.

why do u need a syncing software ? Can't you just copy paste your music on to N900 ?

I myself use mpd + mpc/ncmpcpp from the console on my laptop.
If you are more the GUI type, mpd + sonata seem to be popular.
For my N900, I was contemplating using mmpc, but I'm half-tempted to venture back to a web client

Pros:

• playlists
• directory based music organization
• metadata / tags
• album art, lyrics, last.fm scrobbling, etc (depending on the client used)
• keep your music in one place, but play from anywhere
• auto resume on restart
• music keeps playing even if you log out if you want

Cons:

• can be tricky to set up (especially if you aren't used to linux directory structure)
• requires that you have both mpd daemon and a client
• most clients don't allow you to play from cd or other sources not in your music directory

Nokia Media Transfer

Salling Media Sync is really easy to use with itunes. I highly recommend it. Syncs also cover art. Not sure though if it needs to be embedded in id3.

http://www.salling.com/MediaSync/windows/

http://www.salling.com/MediaSync/mac/

Mediamonkey works perfectly fine (just setup the directories under the options).

Other than that, file manager

I downloaded media monkey and its put the songs in the music folder...yet it flat out refuses to play some songs saying unable to find media file despite them clearly being there...what do I do?! I am really getting frustrated with this who thought it would be so hard...also some songs randomly saying copy protected when they clearly aren't as I've paid for DRM removal.