From: SteveH on
Stephen2 <Stephen(a)mailinator.com> wrote:

> On Oct 11, 5:28 pm, st...(a)italiancar.co.uk (SteveH) wrote:
> > Stephen2 <Step...(a)mailinator.com> wrote:
> > > On Sep 9, 9:05 pm, st...(a)italiancar.co.uk (SteveH) wrote:
> > > > Rocks. Massively.
> >
> > > Am I right in saying that there's no syncing of tracks between iphone
> > > & desktop? I mean playlists sync and tracks also appear on the iphone
> > > but are greyed out. It seems that you need to download them twice -
> > > once on the desktop & once on the iphone via wifi if you want them to
> > > be available offline. Or am I missing something?
> >
> > You never download anything to the desktop - it's all streamed.
>
> Playlists can be set to Offline which means the content is downloaded
> and cached locally. If this is set on the desktop client I can't see a
> way to sync the downloaded tracks to the iPhone. It seems you have to
> set the playlist to Offline on the iphone which means the content will
> be also be downloaded on that via wifi.

Hmmm, hadn't noticed that before. Has it come in with a recent software
update?

Anyway - the phone and desktop client don't communicate via cable - it's
all OTA.

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