Hello all;
I'm using an HTC Tytan and Vista 32 bit ultimate. Hope this is the right
place to ask!

I'd like to find a waysynchronise only a limited amount of media data to the
expansion card on my phone via Windows media center. On my MP3 player I can
specify a data quantity to be synchronised - say 2 Gb, but on my smart phone
the whole expansion card is synchronised by default.

So I'm thinking of a workflow similar to this:

1) Synch the phone with media player. As I've said, this will by default
synch the whole 4 Gb expansion card.
2) Go down into Computer\fone\Lagerkort\Music
3) select random files to a given quantity (say 1 Gb)
4) delete them

This should leave me ample space for docs and pix.

Problem is that I can't find a way to mavigate to the storage card via dos
(I can of course browse to it via Explorer.

A cut and paste of the folder adress via explorer's adress line gives:

Computer\fone\Lagerkort\Music

But trying that in dos gives

C:\Users\seeker>cd \\Computer\fone\Lagerkort\Music
'\\Computer\fone\Lagerkort\Music'
CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories.

C:\Users\seeker>cd \fone\Lagerkort\Music
The system cannot find the path specified.

C:\Users\seeker>cd fone\Lagerkort\Music
The system cannot find the path specified.

C:\Users\seeker>cd :fone\Lagerkort\Music
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.


Does any one have any idea?

You can set it up to sync a particular playlist (or playlists) only.
Playlists can include any sort of media, pictures, videos, as well as music.
You can move stuff in an out of those playlists on the PC to vary the
content. Only part that is unfortunate is there is no tally of the physical
size when building a playlist, but you get a feel for it.

There were also some auto playlist features that I haven't played with for a
while, that let you generate playlists automatically that held just 5 star
items, or created a list that would just fill a data CD (500 or so M), that
might be useful.

You have to set the particular external device, SD, MP3 player, etc. up for
auto-sync for this to work.

--
Sven
MVP Mobile Devices
"Seeker" <Seeker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:84D55A27-7B8C-451E-B7DE-BB13B77A7D58@microsoft.com...
> Hello all;
> I'm using an HTC Tytan and Vista 32 bit ultimate. Hope this is the right
> place to ask!
>
> I'd like to find a waysynchronise only a limited amount of media data to
> the
> expansion card on my phone via Windows media center. On my MP3 player I
> can
> specify a data quantity to be synchronised - say 2 Gb, but on my smart
> phone
> the whole expansion card is synchronised by default.
>
> So I'm thinking of a workflow similar to this:
>
> 1) Synch the phone with media player. As I've said, this will by default
> synch the whole 4 Gb expansion card.
> 2) Go down into Computer\fone\Lagerkort\Music
> 3) select random files to a given quantity (say 1 Gb)
> 4) delete them
>
> This should leave me ample space for docs and pix.
>
> Problem is that I can't find a way to mavigate to the storage card via dos
> (I can of course browse to it via Explorer.
>
> A cut and paste of the folder adress via explorer's adress line gives:
>
> Computer\fone\Lagerkort\Music
>
> But trying that in dos gives
>
> C:\Users\seeker>cd \\Computer\fone\Lagerkort\Music
> '\\Computer\fone\Lagerkort\Music'
> CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories.
>
> C:\Users\seeker>cd \fone\Lagerkort\Music
> The system cannot find the path specified.
>
> C:\Users\seeker>cd fone\Lagerkort\Music
> The system cannot find the path specified.
>
> C:\Users\seeker>cd :fone\Lagerkort\Music
> The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
>
>
> Does any one have any idea?

That would be fine, if I could build a playlist by data quantity. If there
was a way to auto build a playlist of say, 2 or 3 gigs and then shuffle it
onto the mobile device.

Is that possible? I haven't been able to think of a way to limit a playlist
in this way.

Otherwise, I'd still need to make the script.

"Sven" wrote:

> You can set it up to sync a particular playlist (or playlists) only.
> Playlists can include any sort of media, pictures, videos, as well as music.
> You can move stuff in an out of those playlists on the PC to vary the
> content. Only part that is unfortunate is there is no tally of the physical
> size when building a playlist, but you get a feel for it.
>
> There were also some auto playlist features that I haven't played with for a
> while, that let you generate playlists automatically that held just 5 star
> items, or created a list that would just fill a data CD (500 or so M), that
> might be useful.
>
> You have to set the particular external device, SD, MP3 player, etc. up for
> auto-sync for this to work.
>
> --
> Sven
> MVP Mobile Devices
> "Seeker" <Seeker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:84D55A27-7B8C-451E-B7DE-BB13B77A7D58@microsoft.com...
> > Hello all;
> > I'm using an HTC Tytan and Vista 32 bit ultimate. Hope this is the right
> > place to ask!
> >
> > I'd like to find a waysynchronise only a limited amount of media data to
> > the
> > expansion card on my phone via Windows media center. On my MP3 player I
> > can
> > specify a data quantity to be synchronised - say 2 Gb, but on my smart
> > phone
> > the whole expansion card is synchronised by default.
> >
> > So I'm thinking of a workflow similar to this:
> >
> > 1) Synch the phone with media player. As I've said, this will by default
> > synch the whole 4 Gb expansion card.
> > 2) Go down into Computer\fone\Lagerkort\Music
> > 3) select random files to a given quantity (say 1 Gb)
> > 4) delete them
> >
> > This should leave me ample space for docs and pix.
> >
> > Problem is that I can't find a way to mavigate to the storage card via dos
> > (I can of course browse to it via Explorer.
> >
> > A cut and paste of the folder adress via explorer's adress line gives:
> >
> > Computer\fone\Lagerkort\Music
> >
> > But trying that in dos gives
> >
> > C:\Users\seeker>cd \\Computer\fone\Lagerkort\Music
> > '\\Computer\fone\Lagerkort\Music'
> > CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories.
> >
> > C:\Users\seeker>cd \fone\Lagerkort\Music
> > The system cannot find the path specified.
> >
> > C:\Users\seeker>cd fone\Lagerkort\Music
> > The system cannot find the path specified.
> >
> > C:\Users\seeker>cd :fone\Lagerkort\Music
> > The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
> >
> >
> > Does any one have any idea?
>

Yea, in Media Player, under File, is Create Auto Playlist. With that it
gives you a box to set criteria. You can set just 5 star music or other
parameters, and also limit to size, number of items or duration. It should
automatically shuffle things in and out of that list. You have to set that
list up to sync automatically with your PAC though, so each time you connect
and fire up Media Player it will update it.

--
Sven
MVP Mobile Devices
"Seeker" <Seeker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:527147C9-F446-4BB1-89BD-633AF01064DC@microsoft.com...
> That would be fine, if I could build a playlist by data quantity. If there
> was a way to auto build a playlist of say, 2 or 3 gigs and then shuffle it
> onto the mobile device.
>
> Is that possible? I haven't been able to think of a way to limit a
> playlist
> in this way.
>
> Otherwise, I'd still need to make the script.
>
> "Sven" wrote:
>
>> You can set it up to sync a particular playlist (or playlists) only.
>> Playlists can include any sort of media, pictures, videos, as well as
>> music.
>> You can move stuff in an out of those playlists on the PC to vary the
>> content. Only part that is unfortunate is there is no tally of the
>> physical
>> size when building a playlist, but you get a feel for it.
>>
>> There were also some auto playlist features that I haven't played with
>> for a
>> while, that let you generate playlists automatically that held just 5
>> star
>> items, or created a list that would just fill a data CD (500 or so M),
>> that
>> might be useful.
>>
>> You have to set the particular external device, SD, MP3 player, etc. up
>> for
>> auto-sync for this to work.
>>
>> --
>> Sven
>> MVP Mobile Devices
>> "Seeker" <Seeker@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:84D55A27-7B8C-451E-B7DE-BB13B77A7D58@microsoft.com...
>> > Hello all;
>> > I'm using an HTC Tytan and Vista 32 bit ultimate. Hope this is the
>> > right
>> > place to ask!
>> >
>> > I'd like to find a waysynchronise only a limited amount of media data
>> > to
>> > the
>> > expansion card on my phone via Windows media center. On my MP3 player I
>> > can
>> > specify a data quantity to be synchronised - say 2 Gb, but on my smart
>> > phone
>> > the whole expansion card is synchronised by default.
>> >
>> > So I'm thinking of a workflow similar to this:
>> >
>> > 1) Synch the phone with media player. As I've said, this will by
>> > default
>> > synch the whole 4 Gb expansion card.
>> > 2) Go down into Computer\fone\Lagerkort\Music
>> > 3) select random files to a given quantity (say 1 Gb)
>> > 4) delete them
>> >
>> > This should leave me ample space for docs and pix.
>> >
>> > Problem is that I can't find a way to mavigate to the storage card via
>> > dos
>> > (I can of course browse to it via Explorer.
>> >
>> > A cut and paste of the folder adress via explorer's adress line gives:
>> >
>> > Computer\fone\Lagerkort\Music
>> >
>> > But trying that in dos gives
>> >
>> > C:\Users\seeker>cd \\Computer\fone\Lagerkort\Music
>> > '\\Computer\fone\Lagerkort\Music'
>> > CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories.
>> >
>> > C:\Users\seeker>cd \fone\Lagerkort\Music
>> > The system cannot find the path specified.
>> >
>> > C:\Users\seeker>cd fone\Lagerkort\Music
>> > The system cannot find the path specified.
>> >
>> > C:\Users\seeker>cd :fone\Lagerkort\Music
>> > The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
>> >
>> >
>> > Does any one have any idea?
>>