Okay, so I plugged my external hard drive into the one of the back ports, started up Mpod. However, not everything in my external hard drive shows up on the MPod menu. Anyone know what that would be? To make sure everything was still on the external hard drive, I connected it to my Macbook, and all the albums/artists shows up just fine on the Itunes menu. So why not with the BDP-2. What is up with that?
What are the file types? Size of library? And with mpad can you browse through the file system and see the songs and they just don't show up under the artist?
Some random issues i've noticed:
* As for file types, latest version of iTunes (11.x) has a bug with the ID3 tags for at least AIFF files, where MPD might skip a few songs in an album.
* There's no standard or consistent way to tag WAV files, so they might not appear under the album and artists, just really depends on how the directories are listed.
* For a large collection, MPD will stop importing my library after about 3000 songs, again my library is mostly AIFF and a few FLAC. There's a bug in there somewhere, but without an error message it's hard to figure out what it is. The easy solution, perform several updates about 5 minutes apart refreshing the mpad/mpod cache until the time to update is consistent.
* mPod and mPad has a setting to group albums by directory or by album title, this has a significant impact to the number of artists and albums that appear, you might play around with this and update the ID3 tags in iTunes to your preference.
Also compare the size between the BDP and itunes Music folders if they are drastically difference then you have your answer. If they are identical, then compare that to what iTunes itself is reporting, perhaps you need to consolidate your music before you copy them over. If you have a file synchronization issue then you might read this:
http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=102438.msg1038459#msg1038459 .
Jim