What if the music collection is extensive, but you want to listen to everything using the player?

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The situation is simple. we have a lot of mp3 music, as well as a means for playing them - a hardware player, not an apple one (I have Cowon D2 + 16GB + 32GB SD).
Are there any software options that make life easier, so as not to remember what you listened to and what not, but to entrust this work to software in order to optimally use the space on the player.
I understand that without feedback from the player is a difficult task, but maybe there are helpers?
I just want to index the collection, and then conveniently copy the naughty to the player.
to keep track of what has already been copied and what hasn't.
And also interested in how this problem is solved in iTunes, when the library is much larger than the player? How is it synchronized?

Answer 1

iTunes has a play counter in the database, and sympathy stars, as far as I understand, if you rely on automatic synchronization (choosing music from iTunes to player at random), then iTunes uses these parameters. The only thing is that, as far as I understand, the shuffle does not know how to wind up the listening counter.

Answer 2

the most universal solution that I see is the implementation of functionality on players that support scrobbling. (D2 knows how to do it with rockbox), but for other players I think it’s also possible if they communicate via mtp - then there is also communication with the library, where the “number of plays” field is available,
we parse the list of what they listened to - so this is no longer necessary, you can instead upload other songs.
I wonder if there is such a bike?
or all manually copy all the time

Answer 3

by the way, with the help of iTunes Agent ita.sourceforge.net/index.html you can synchronize any non-ipod player with tuna