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Voice Memo not syncing as advertised.

Voice Memos arent working right for me. I have them set to sync, but itunes never did sync them no matter what I did (I thought). So I manually created the Voice Memo playlist it was supposed to make for me, then it finally started automatically putting them in there. It actually was syncing the files over to my main library with just a time and date file name... but no play list and no easy way to find them all or manage them all without searching for each one individually.

Any change I make in iTunes does not change anything on my iPhone in the Voice Memo app. Deleting them from the playlist leaves them in my library, I have to search my library for the date names they are saved as and delete them from there. After deleting them from iTunes, it does not remove them in Voice Memo from my iPhone, they are still there. Syncing my iPhone puts them back as music files onto my iPhone, and they are still in Voice Memo separately... its very confusing because this isnt how Apple said its supposed to work. Maybe the playlist is set up wrong because I had to manually do it and it wont auto create one?

Macbook Pro 15" Unibody 2.53ghz, Mac OS X (10.5.7), Macbook Pro 2ghz Original, iPhone 3G S 32GB, iPod Touch 1st gen 16gb

Posted on Jun 19, 2009 12:57 PM

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Aug 19, 2009 5:26 AM in response to Greenbot 1

"*The 'Include voice memos' checkbox, when checked and synced, will remove memos from iTunes back to the iPhone app, but only in that direction. i.e. this box (when unchecked) will not prevent syncing of voice memos from iPhone to iTunes, this happens regardless and is the default.*"

how absolutely stupid is this?! You would automatically assume the tick box would mean that voice memos would NOT sync to iTunes when it is unchecked. Doesn't that make sense? I have experienced the same issue as others too. I only have one memo recorded, yet it has created it twice in 2 syncs to iTunes. However, the playlist was automatically created (even though I had the tickbox unchecked to sync voice memos and I didn't want the bloomin' things in my iTunes library!)

Get it fixed Apple!

Aug 19, 2009 5:10 PM in response to Greenbot 1

Has anyone figured out a sync workaround (that's not ridiculously complicated) allowing deletion of Voice Memos in iTunes to subsequently sync/delete from iPhone, thus avoiding manual, individual deleting on iPhone? >> AS IS STILL ADVERTISED ON THEIR WEBSITE? (that is, without all the duplicating & one-way 'mystery-syncing' side effects etc.?)

Very surprised that Apple has not yet provided an update for this programming error.

Voice Memo not syncing as advertised.

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