Νέο εργαλείο συγχρονισμού WP 8 συσκευών με τα Windows 8 από τη Microsoft

[vangel161]

Τα υπάρχοντα wp7.5 δεν θα πάρουν τα wp8 αλλά μια μικρή αναβάθμιση την 7.8. Αυτό αφορά ΟΛΕΣ τις συσκευές που πωλούνται αυτή τη στιγμη. Η αναβάθμιση θα αφορά την αρχική οθόνη σιγουρα, αλλά πέραν τούτου ουδέν σιγουρο

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[privateer]

microsoft, γιατι μονο για wp 8? τα 7.5 δηλαδη τι τα κανεις; τα αφηνεις με το κωλο-zune?

 

No longer does Windows Phone sync with the Zune desktop client. There are three new sync apps. One is made for Windows 7, one for Windows 8, and one for Mac OS X. They’re all horrible compared to what you could do with the Zune client. I mean seriously bad. With Zune you could actually manage a large library of music, videos, and photos. You could see everything, you could sort them and filter them. You could create automatic playlists that would organize your content by certain criteria no matter how your library changed. For example, I had a “100 newest” songs auto playlist that obviously had my newest music, but it also removed the songs that I had rated lowly as disliking them. With Zune, I could set this programmed playlist to auto-sync with my Windows Phone wirelessly over WiFi while the phone was charging. I never had to even think about it! Just plug into the charger when I got home, download any new music I might want and it would refresh my playlist by itself. Even if I downloaded new music from my Zune HD, the Zune PC software would see that, put it in my auto-playlist and transfer the new stuff to my phone. The same worked with my photos. I had a special folder of photos that was set to auto-sync with my phone whenever new photos were added. It was all very seamless and easy and effortless.

That’s no longer the case. Now you have to plug Windows Phone directly into your PC’s USB port in order to sync Media and then you have to launch the Windows Phone 8 sync app in order to browse through your library and select single items to sync. You can’t even see thumbnails of what you’re syncing though. You have to go by the file name. Want to listen to a song or ringtone to see if that’s the one you want to sync before you do it? Forget about it. What’s worse is that every time you launch the Windows 7 version of the Windows Phone sync app, it has to RE-SCAN your entire library. So for me, that means plugging in the phone, launching the app manually, waiting for about 15 minutes for it to rescan my terabytes of media, and then tediously trying to search for the filenames of the content I want to sync. It’s a huge step back in usability. It doesn’t even scan the Windows Libraries correctly. My movies that I purchased through the Zune desktop software do not show up in the Videos section.

Windows Phone 8 now supports the Mass Storage Device protocol when plugged in via USB though. That’s great if you want to plug a phone into a computer and copy/paste files between folders manually without having to install any software. Apparently people still do that even though the automatic wireless method from the old Zune software was so much better. I never trusted mass storage transfers because who knows what codec or encoding these files are in and whether or not they’ll be playable on the device. Allowing the Zune software to convert and down-sample (in order to save on storage space) was so much easier and more reliable.

Fortunately, syncing directly with a PC is becoming less and less necessary considering a large portion of my music library already shows up as my “cloud collection” in Windows Phone 8, all of my photos and videos stored on SkyDrive show up seamlessly, backups are automatically made to the cloud, and I can set full resolution photos and videos to sync to SkyDrive automatically as well. Simply having the SkyDrive app installed on my PC means all of that content gets automatically synced to my PC too, except that it does not go into the normal media library folders. I still have to archive stuff manually. Windows Phone 8 software updates are done over WiFi too, so I don’t need to plug into a PC for that reason either. The only problem is trying to get videos bought through Xbox Video to show up on Windows Phone 8.

http://pocketnow.com/2012/10/29/windows-phone-8-review#!prettyPhoto

Σίγουρα με μελλοντικά updates θα φτάσει την λειτουργικότητα του Zune αλλά για την ώρα το τελευταίο είναι καλύτερο.