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Contributed by Doug Haber
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Friday, 20 October 2006 |
FreshSync
FreshSync is a simple command-line Windows program to synchronize your media files (mp3, avi, etc) with your portable media device.
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Legal
You can find the license information here
Download
You can download the latest version here
Description
email: doug AT fawnanddoug.com
Version 1.2.1 - Bug Fix Release
FreshSync is a simple command-line Windows program to synchronize your media files (mp3, avi, etc) with your portable media device. It works with (theoretically) any Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) device such as those from Creative (e.g. the Zens), iRiver or Archos or even generic USB mass storage devices. If your device has the "Plays For Sure" logo it will probably work (but some devices without the logo still work). I wrote this program because I didn't like the software that came with my Creative Zen Vision:M and I wanted a quick, reliable way to synchronize my podcasts (video and audio) with my device (though it can also be used to sync everything).
Install
- Place the executable somewhere on your drive (e.g. c:\windows\system32 or c:\program files\FreshSync\)
- Open a command prompt
- Navigate to the parent directory or run directly if it's on the path
- Celebrate
I've run it as a scheduled task (control-panel -> scheduled tasks) that runs it every night at 1am.
Usage
The command I use every day is something like the below. It reads from c:\podcasts, tricks the device into thinking all inserted audio has the genre "Podcast" and automatically inserts/deletes without prompting. I highly recommend you do NOT use "-a" until you test!
FreshSync.exe -d c:\podcasts -a -g "Podcast"
Here are some more examples:
1. This syncs all of the files in the c:\podcasts directory (and subdirectories) with the device. Specifically audio goes in \Music\podcasts and videos go in \Video (with their respective subdirectories). This will prompt before inserting or deleting anything
FreshSync -d c:\podcasts
2. Same as #1 but automatically inserts/deletes without prompting
FreshSync.exe -d c:\podcasts -a
3. The videos are easy to find, but I have lots of audio, so "-g" tricks the device into thinking that the genre for the audio it is about to insert is "Podcast". Otherwise same as #2
FreshSync.exe -d c:\podcasts -a -g "Podcast"
4. Same as #3 but uses the music directory \Music and the video directory \Video\foo
FreshSync.exe -d c:\prodcasts -a -g "Podcast" -m \Music -v \Video\foo
5. If you have multiple devices then the above lines will not know which device to use, so they will instead print out a message asking you to select the device. This option chooses the second device (otherwise same as #3).
FreshSync.exe -d c:\podcasts -a -g "Podcast" -i 2
6. Same as #5 but chooses device by name
FreshSync.exe -d c:\podcasts -a -g "Podcast" -n "Creative Zen Vision:M"
7. Same as #1 but copies files from device to PC instead of PC to device
FreshSync.exe -d c:\podcasts -g "Podcast" -r
8. Same as #1 but shows what it would do without actually doing anything
FreshSync.exe -d c:\podcasts -g "Podcast" -p
9. Same as #1 but don't transfer video
FreshSync.exe -d c:\podcasts -g "Podcast" -nv
10. Same as #1 but don't transfer music
FreshSync.exe -d c:\podcasts -g "Podcast" -nm
11. Display help
FreshSync.exe -h
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 19 December 2006 )
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