I also wish the sync process was more straightforward and intuitive. I use three different devices, and I mainly do just one - way sync from PC to my 2 Android devices (making 2 way syncs was too risky). Even so, I keep finding all kind of issues (some of them I have reported here) that I don't really have the time to troubleshoot or report.
Probably I'm too simplistic, but a one -way sync from device A to B should result in an identical copy of the databases in both devices, period. No questions in the process should be done, no files should be resent over and over again, no "Select wich song to use" dialog should appear, the number of the songs in both devices should be the same after the process... Unfortunately, none of this is the case.
I agree, Backup > Restore is much slower, but much better.
PS: As an exmple of how confusing and counterintuitive the sync feature can be, I've just made a backup on the PC, imported that backup file on the android device and INMEDIATELY AFTER, made a One-way sync PC > Android. Of course, I would expect that MS would find no differences between both databses, however the program insistend on re-sending a file that was already there:
Probably I'm too simplistic, but a one -way sync from device A to B should result in an identical copy of the databases in both devices, period. No questions in the process should be done, no files should be resent over and over again, no "Select wich song to use" dialog should appear, the number of the songs in both devices should be the same after the process... Unfortunately, none of this is the case.
I agree, Backup > Restore is much slower, but much better.
PS: As an exmple of how confusing and counterintuitive the sync feature can be, I've just made a backup on the PC, imported that backup file on the android device and INMEDIATELY AFTER, made a One-way sync PC > Android. Of course, I would expect that MS would find no differences between both databses, however the program insistend on re-sending a file that was already there: