SyncTunes 2.0 is a major new release with a lot of great new functionality to make it easier and more flexible to keep your iTunes libraries in sync.
- The UI has been significantly updated to add the ability to browse by media type and to select collections of artists, albums, podcasts, playlists and genres and have those groups sync each time you start SyncTunes and click Sync.
- You can now sync playlists in SyncTunes. If the playlist is a user generated list, it will also send the playlist to the remote machine after syncing the tracks in the playlist is complete. This is a great way to keep your playlists in sync as well as the content.
- Lots of improvements to the networking layer to make connections faster and more reliable.
Playlist Syncing
One of the most common requests has been for syncing playlists between computer. SyncTunes now allows you to sync the content of any playlist in your collection to the remote machine and for any user created playlist (eg. lists where you added specific songs to the playlist). One of the biggest groups of people who have been requesting this has been DJs who build playlists of tracks and want to synchronize both the tracks themselves an the playlist themselves and SyncTunes 2.0 now allows them to do that.
Updated User Interface
SyncTunes 2.0 is also sporting an entirely new UI. SyncTunes primary window includes four lists. The top of the window includes lists you can use to filter the collections of media in your iTunes library while the bottom list will display the individual files that match the selection above. SyncTunes allows you to sync your media in two different ways. First, you can configure a set of content collections and then click the Sync button in the middle of the top of the window and all of the items in those collections will be synchronized between your computers. Second, you can use the filter lists to find a specific set of tracks, select those tracks in the bottom list and click Sync Selected and just those items will be synced.
When you have collections of content that you always want to keep in sync, the simplest way to use SyncTunes is to just select those collections and click Sync. Collections can include artists, albums, playlists, podcast series, or genres. Selecting any of those types in the first list will show those collections in the second list. When you see a collection that you want to keep in sync, just click the checkbox next to it. You can choose different categories of collections to see all of your different options. Selecting an artist will implicitly select all of the albums under that artist (since synchronizing an artist actually synchronizes all of the songs by that artist). SyncTunes will remember the checked collections so that the next time you launch the application and connect to the remote computer, you just need to click Sync and any tracks that have changed will be synchronized.
SyncTunes 2.0 is available today in the Mac App Store and is a free upgrade to all existing users.