SyncTunes 2.1 was released to the Apple Mac App Store on October 6, bringing a number of enhancements requested by customers and a significant improvement in performance with large libraries.
One of the more common requests was a way to select or deselect all of the items in one of the column lists. Now there is a new checkbox next to the title of the column lists that allows you to do this. Clicking it will either check or uncheck all of the items in the list and if only some of the items in the list are selected, it will display in the mixed state so you can easily tell if some item further down the list is selected.
SyncTunes 2.0 brought the ability to synchronize playlists from the local Mac to the remote Mac. With SyncTunes 2.1, you can now also select playlists from the remote Mac and sync them locally. In addition, we have made the syncing of the playlists happen much faster and it will happen even if all of the songs in the list are not yet transferred (though most of them need to be present on the target Mac before the playlist will be sent). Syncing Smart Playlists is still the same as in 2.0 — the content of the Smart Playlist will be sent but the playlist itself will not, though sending the smart playlist itself is planned for the next release.
Finally, one of the biggest complaints about SyncTunes has come from people with very large libraries with many tens (or even hundreds) of thousands of tracks. The problem was that comparing the libraries could take minutes and until the comparison is done you couldn’t actually synchronize anything. SyncTunes 2.1 has a significant improvement in library loading and comparison that will take only a few seconds where it used to take minutes. This has been validated on libraries with up to 150,000 tracks. Transferring that much data will still take as long as necessary, depending on network speed but SyncTunes 2.1 will now be much more responsive in this situation.
As always, if you have any questions, suggestions or problems with SyncTunes please let us know by contacting our support email address.