Banshee should support syncing playlists to iPods

Gabriel Burt committed this upstream, should be part of Banshee 1.3.0.

This should be fixed with 1.4.0, published in Jaunty.

For ipod nanos, you should be able to select which playlists you want sync'ed. The entire music library doesn't fit on these devices. If you manage this manually, it doesn't copy the playlists, only the songs. And it should warn you that you don't have enough room on the device for the entire library and have that option be greyed out.

The ipod manage window should have
Music Library
     Sync Music Library
x Sync Only these Playlists
       x playlist 1
              playlist 2
       x playlist 3

Songbird has this. This is the only reason I'm using songbird still.

This is a must have indeed! I was really surprised there is no way to specify what to sync as there is not enough Gb's on the iPod to sync the whole collection.

This should be implemented as described by Lu Timdale above.

Is this bug really fixed? I could not find how to auto-sync a single playlist with an iPod Nano instead of the entire music library. I'm using Banshee 1.6 Beta 2 (1.5.1) as shipped in Ubuntu 9.10.

Yeah, this doesn't seem to actually be implemented. I'm using the Banshee daily PPA in Ubuntu 9.10. I think the upstream bug link is wrong, that bug is about being able to drag playlists onto devices, but this bug is about keeping a playlist in sync with a device.

@Michael, It's true that the upstream link is wrong; the correct bug is bgo: 408204. I'll try to fix the upstream link, but if that doesn't work, it's worth mentioning that this issue was fixed in the master branch about a week ago.

This bug was fixed in the package banshee - 1.5.3-1

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banshee (1.5.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Chow Loong Jin ]
  * New upstream release
    + New features:
      - Sync device from playlist option
      - Type-ahead find in track, artist, and album lists
      - Optional cover art in lower-left corner
      - Editable cover art via drag-and-drop and right-click
      - Audiobooks library extension
      - Library-folder watcher extension
      - eMusic importer/downloader extension
    + Enhancements:
      - Improved Podcast filtering/browsing
      - Extension preferences tab reworked
      - Extension names/descriptions translated
      - Improved sqlite performance
      - Added --set-rating=RATING command line option
      - Support for Nexus One devices
    + Bug-fixes:
      - DAPs now works with DeviceKit (LP: #382941)
      - Fix issue with DAAP authenticating (LP: #308233)
      - Podcast renaming should work well now
      - Podcast download cancelling is now fast
      - Internet Archive results paging off-by-one fixed
      - Fix for MTP devices on 64-bit distros
      - Fix import error for files with '\0' characters (LP: #499698)
      - Support syncing playlists to iPods (LP: #75571)
      - Fix syncing podcasts to iPods (LP: #140489)
  * debian/control:
    + Bump mono-devel version to 2.4.3 for LibraryWatcher
    + Re-enable libkarma-cil, use libkarma-cil-dev
    + Bump mono-addins version to 0.3.1
    + Bump libgstreamer0.10-dev version to 0.10.12
  * debian/rules:
    + Add configure flags for explicitly enabling all wanted
      features, countering Banshee's automagic silently disabling features
  * debian/patches/01_devkit-fix.patch:
    + Dropped, applied upstream
  * debian/patches/:
    + 01_monodoc-fix-enable.patch: Fix usage of AC_ARG_ENABLE for --enable-docs

  [ Jo Shields ]
  * debian/control:
    + Drop individual library build-deps as all mono libs are pulled in at
      build time
    + Bump Standards version to 3.8.4 (no changes needed)

banshee (1.5.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Chow Loong Jin ]
  * New upstream release (Closes: #558611)
    + New Features:
      - The Internet Archive extension
      - The iTunes importer
      - Metadata ratings and playcount import and export
      - Add support for Pulse and Droid phones (LP: #501515)
      - Use new Last.fm API (Closes: #548029, LP: #415937)

    + Enhancements:
      - Many accessibility enhancements
      - When sorting by score also sort by playcount (bgo#598431)
      - Add WICD support (bgo#596918)
      - Add the USB id for the Palm Pre in developer mode
      - Improve the import media dialog (bgo#559013)
      - Allow seeking in DAAP streams
      - Tooltip for the AutoDJ source combobox (bgo#598504)
      - Improve recognition of Android devices
      - Recognize Samsung Galaxy device in debug mode
      - PlaybackError query field (bgo#590946)
      - Additional tokens for file system organization (bgo#489861)
      - Remember direction when sorting the list view (bgo#590869)
      - Cleaner track change notification popup (LP: #445965)
      - Move Last.fm settings to the preferences dialog
      - Double click toggles...

This is not really fixed. You can now sync one playlist, but not multiple. Those playlists don't show up as playlists on the ipod. The "fix" is a step forward, but I want playlists on my ipod.

Lu, syncing a device to a playlist and adding playlists to a device are separate issues. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551604 for more information on the bug you're interested in.

Lu, you can probably disregard my last comment ;) I see after reading your earlier post that you are hoping to sync a Nano to multiple playlists, which would very much be an extension of this bug... just like you said... :) You might want to run that by Banshee developers either in IRC or on the mailing list (or in a new report in Banshee's bugzilla). I don't know that there are any plans for this in the near future, but it probably wouldn't hurt to ask.