Problems with uploading files: disappearing

Instead of using "send to", I'd recommend synching instead--works much better, doesn't take that much longer then sending stuff over, and from my newbie experience here on the boards, appears to be MUCH less buggie...

If you are using the latest version of MC9 (maybe even not quite latest?) you should have an auto smartlist for All Music under the playlist group. Sync with that list checked and your entire library will be on your iPod.

I think that transfering to the iPod the way you did only copies the files to it, and does not register it into the iPod's music database. I am pretty much a newbie with MC9 but that is how I think it works.

Thanks for your tips guys!!
I tried what you suggested to do and now everything seems to be okay except for other playlists I had created and that haven't been transferred onto my iPod! :(
So now I can see my All music smartlist, obviously the On-the-go default one, and like an empty one with no name and no content!
What am I doing wrong again!?

Also another strange thing that happened! I tried using the sync thing for the "last played" songs from the iPod to MC9. When I did that, many songs on MC9 appeared like if they had been played something like -1,34384388943 mins ago! Is that a prob with the beta version!?

Thanks again for all your support!!

isildur

Had you thrown the Ring into the pit when you had the chance Isildur, we wouldn't be having this discussion. ;)

But, you can check any and all of the playlists in MC to be synched, and they will then show up on the iPod. So if you created a playlist called My Top 100, then check the box next to it in the transfer window.

Note: if you have the "delete files not in synch" box at the bottom of the transfer dialog is checked, any songs on your iPod and not in at least 1 of the transfering playlists will be removed from the iPod. This feature is helpluf when your collection is larger than the capacity of the iPod.

As to the weird last played number it might be a bug, but here is what I did to clean it up.
In your media library, add the column for last played and play count.
Sort by last played and all of those bad numbers will be grouped at the top or bottom of the list. Select the first one in the list and scroll to the bottom of the list and shift+select it to get all of the files.
Right-click and select tag info from the popup.
In the action area the tag information will open up. Right click and select either Show All Fields or File Info.
Click on the last played field, a "clear" button will appear, click on it and it will reset to never played. The same applies for the number of plays since if you have never played a song, the number should be 0 also.

After you do that all of your play counts over 0 should have a correct last played field. At this point you might want to back up your library. I did not format my iPod before transfering and had a few files that were incorrect after the next time I synched the iPod info into MC, so I would suggest initializing the iPod in MC again. Then synch and your playlists and correct playing information shoud be there.

Search the boards and you will find detailed information by people much smarter than I about most of this.