Filter what you want for auto-syncing?

[whiskers]

I made the switch to MusicBee from iTunes about a year ago and it's been the perfect music player, even since it can still sync my iPod classic with no problem.

The issue is I've now filled up my iPod classic, which I hadn't anticipated. I started deleting albums from my collection, but I've come to a point where I don't want to limit my library to 1,000 or so albums. I want to retain all my playlists and so on, but can I exclude albums from syncing to my iPod? In iTunes a song can be unticked, but I've spent a good while looking through the settings on MusicBee and can't find a system to exclude certain albums from syncing onto the iPod. Obviously I could just drop and drag albums into the iPod individually and delete the ones I don't want, but this is a faff that I want to avoid, and also stops any 'two-way' syncing to scrobble my last.fm and update my Last Played stat.

I feel like with all the functions of MusicBee, there must be a way to do this. Although I understand that the programme wasn't built with syncing to an iPod classic in mind, let alone a full one.

Really appreciate any answers!

[Pingaware]

There's a variety of ways you could approach this, depending on your circumstances. I'd suggest using an auto-playlist for collecting the albums together. Do you use your rating tag by any chance?

[whiskers]

There's a variety of ways you could approach this, depending on your circumstances. I'd suggest using an auto-playlist for collecting the albums together. Do you use your rating tag by any chance?

I set up an auto-playlist to add 5 star rated albums, but when I dragged the playlist onto my iPod, it added everything I wanted but the songs were nowhere on the iPod except in the playlist menu, which isn't ideal since I can't listen to albums, only all the songs on one long playlist. Am I doing something wrong?

[Pingaware]

Try going into the playlist, pressing Ctrl+A and then selecting Send To>iPod for those songs. I'm sure there's a better way, but I don't do much syncing. That should work though.

[whiskers]

Try going into the playlist, pressing Ctrl+A and then selecting Send To>iPod for those songs. I'm sure there's a better way, but I don't do much syncing. That should work though.

Thanks, I'll give this a go! Although ideally I would like a system where I can press the 'synchronise' button to enable two way syncing.