Hello everyone, Hi Jeremy,
this is my first post in this forum. I have mainly created a new profile on this site because I am using Dapper and found this thread to be a useful source of information for this program. First of all, it is of course a very helpful companion with our Fiio X1 and Fiio X3. It is working reliably, results are pretty much (see below) as expected, and it is affordable. Still, there is at least one question I would like to ask - maybe anyone who subscribed to this thread may have an answer to it.
What I want to do is pretty simple: I would like to transfer my music files in my iTunes Library via Dapper and via the Dapper-playlists I created there. That works fine most of the time, only those files that are in any way protected are not copied. That´s what I would expect from such a program. Additionally, I would like Dapper to create a playlist based - exactly - on the order in the source playlist located in the iTunes library. That doesn´t seem to work right now, at least not on the mentioned Fiio X1 and Fiio X3. Both players get recognized by Dapper on first connection, and I haven´t messed around with the playlist settings. Assuming that this would create playlists based exactly on those in my iTunes library I was a little surprised, that the playlists that ended up on the players did not match the order of those in the iTunes library.
Now I kind of got to know via the Fiio forums, that they are using some special formular to sort the playlists on their devices (not all playlists are automatically sorted in the same manner)? I got that impression from their posts in their forums, but that may only apply to those playlists created on the devices themselves. In my understanding, transferred playlists should be able to be left unchanged, and therefore display the content as set by sources such as the playlists in the iTunes Library.
Maybe this topic has already been discussed, and maybe you have a quick solution for this problem. But it bothers me - as far as playlist order goes, am I doing or getting something wrong?