synching part of a playlist to an MP3 player

I have WMP 11 and have many playlists with hours of music in each. If I add
more songs to a playlist, how can I synch only the new tunes into the proper
playlist? If I synch the album, it will synch as the album, but will not be
added to the proper playlist on the MP# player, which is where I usually
select music from. If I synch the entire library playlist, WMP converts every
tune in the playlist, taking hours, only to say that most of the tunes are
already on the device. It will synch the new tunes to the proper playlist,
but only after hours of spinning its wheels.

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:46:02 -0800, guitarrich
> <> wrote:
>
> >I have WMP 11 and have many playlists with hours of music in each. If I add
> >more songs to a playlist, how can I synch only the new tunes into the proper
> >playlist? If I synch the album, it will synch as the album, but will not be
> >added to the proper playlist on the MP# player, which is where I usually
> >select music from. If I synch the entire library playlist, WMP converts every
> >tune in the playlist, taking hours, only to say that most of the tunes are
> >already on the device. It will synch the new tunes to the proper playlist,
> >but only after hours of spinning its wheels.
>
> There's at least one setting to check here.
>
> WMP has a folder called 'transcoded files cache' where it stores files
> which are already converted.
>
> It's intended that it won't re-convert files and should just check
> with the device, then sync only the changed or new files, by looking
> in this cache then talking to the MP3 player.
>
> So either the MP3 player itself doesn't correctly identify what's
> already on it, or the cache is full. Mine has a default size of about
> 30 Gig, I think it's actually a percentage of your hard disks free
> space
>
> So you could check in WMP More Options -> Devices then click
> Advanced... button. Make sure the "Amount of disk space to use" is at
> least as large as your player or the number of files you regularly
> change around on the MP3 device.
>
> Also check your hard disk's free space and make sure it's got plenty
> of space to play with - a couple of gigs may not be enough, and could
> be forcing WMP to re-convert the files to a type that the device can
> play.
>
> This is often a lower bitrate than for a desktop PC, like 96 or
> 128kbps supported by your device then if your existing media files are
> all 256 or 160kbps it'll have to convert them
>
> Finally, it sounds like you're selecting playlists manually.
>
> Make sure in the WMP Sync Settings that you haven't selected "Sync
> this device automatically" or WMP will try to fill the device with
> tracks, which might not be your intention (and *would* take a long
> time I guess)
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil
> ------------------------------------------------
> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2009
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs
> .
> Neil, this appears to be the answer. I only had about 15G and my devices hold 60 G and 30G respectively, so I changed the setting to 100 G. Many thanks for the advice!