Pretty good, could use a few enhancements to make it Great.
After many hours of searching I found this app and am very pleased with it! I have a new car with a USB slot and was amazed at how difficult it is to get clean playlists and sync iTunes with a USB stick. This app comes very close to perfect. I especially appreciate the option for a backslash since my car requires that, even though I do my iTunes on a mac which uses front slash /.
A few improvements I would like to see:
1. When you open the app, among the playlists is "Apps". Why? It shows all of my iPhone and iPad apps (somehow thought these were music tracks) and they all were all red. No big problem, just dont select "Apps". But this shouldn’t happen.
2. It seems that the export to files and the export to Excel happen separately for the playlists and the albums (you need to do your playlists and albums in two separate steps). Why not have it do both things at once? For making the actual music files, its it’s not a big problem. But for making the Excel document (this is a really cool feature BTW), its a problem. I first created Excel for Albums, ok. Then wanted to ADD to the spreadsheet my playlists. I could only create a new file or overwrite the old one. I couldn’t append the list, or have both lists appear in Excel together.
3. Allow separate options for the playlists and albums, for example, whether to create the m3u file. For playlist, obviously you need that, but for album, you dont. This is needed if you implement suggestion #2. Typically people will want all playlists get the m3u file, and all albums don’t. But whenever I update I my playlist I have to remember to check the “m3u” option, then when I update albums, uncheck it. Another simple way to solve this is with two checkboxes: “create m3u”, and “only for playlists”.
4. When creating a playlist, first look to see if each track already exists in another playlist or album, and just reference it in the m3u file. That way you avoid duplicate tracks and save space on your USB.
5. When the iTunes library changes, there’s no way to refresh the tables. If I had opened the app on Playlists and had NOT yet clicked Albums tab, it will refresh (read iTunes) the first time clicking on Albums. But then if a playlist changes in iTunes, clicking back on Playlists doesnt refresh it. The only way I can find to refresh from iTunes is to close the app and re-open it. A simple solution is to put a Refresh button in the toolbar.
6. Lastly, please also provide an Artists button. It would do the same thing as Albums but organizes tracks by Artists instead. Maybe also Genres.
Rich Fackenthal about Export for iTunes
