Vista - Syncing Music to a Memory Card

I seem to recall that in Beta versions of Vista, you could tell Media Player
to sync files on a PocketPCs memory card, instead of the built in memory.
However, I can not find this option on the Retail version? How do you tell
Media Player to download files to a PocketPCs memory card instead of the
built in memory? What am I missing?

-Thanks!

You're not missing anything. It's an egregious bug that's a literal
slap-in-the-face to loyal adherents to the Microsoft vision of
media-anywhere computing. I've been following this since Vista's release
and the best I can tell you is that there WAS a Knowledge Base article on it
and it's since been hidden or removed.

It has something to do with the was that Vista enumerates USB devices. If
you have WM5 AKU2 or later on your PPC you can disable Advanced Networking
Functionality in Settings, Connections, USB to PC. Syncs will crawl but it
will prove it's not your fault and just another in a long line of bugs in
Vista.

"Matt" <Matt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3C7A76FA-5F40-45AD-A0AD-660B5112EE1C@microsoft.com...
>I seem to recall that in Beta versions of Vista, you could tell Media
>Player
> to sync files on a PocketPCs memory card, instead of the built in memory.
> However, I can not find this option on the Retail version? How do you
> tell
> Media Player to download files to a PocketPCs memory card instead of the
> built in memory? What am I missing?
>
> -Thanks!

I believe there's some cases where certain properties (long device name?)
can cause it to be invisible to Media Player 11 (on XP or Vista). At this
point you would want to contact actual product support to check on that.

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"Mike Byrns" <mike.byrns@technologist.com> wrote in message
news:uUSerLUWHHA.1636@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> You're not missing anything. It's an egregious bug that's a literal
> slap-in-the-face to loyal adherents to the Microsoft vision of
> media-anywhere computing. I've been following this since Vista's release
> and the best I can tell you is that there WAS a Knowledge Base article on
> it and it's since been hidden or removed.
>
> It has something to do with the was that Vista enumerates USB devices. If
> you have WM5 AKU2 or later on your PPC you can disable Advanced Networking
> Functionality in Settings, Connections, USB to PC. Syncs will crawl but
> it will prove it's not your fault and just another in a long line of bugs
> in Vista.
>
> "Matt" <Matt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3C7A76FA-5F40-45AD-A0AD-660B5112EE1C@microsoft.com...
>>I seem to recall that in Beta versions of Vista, you could tell Media
>>Player
>> to sync files on a PocketPCs memory card, instead of the built in memory.
>> However, I can not find this option on the Retail version? How do you
>> tell
>> Media Player to download files to a PocketPCs memory card instead of the
>> built in memory? What am I missing?
>>
>> -Thanks!
>