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Originally Posted by dwanthny
If this was true then wouldn't Automatic management work on all devices the same way it works on the older Sony models? Currently I have not heard anyone other than Sony owners acknowledge that their metadata automatically updates just by connecting their device. I assumed this was because the Sony driver wrote directly to the media.xml file and most other devices or drivers don't have an equivalent item to update.
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That is a good point.
Calibre has an idea of what the metadata should be. It passes on this metadata to the driver and tells it to update the device with that metadata. A driver can ignore it if it chooses. This makes sense when there is nowhere to put that metadata coming from Calibre.
As long as the driver refreshes whatever the device has for metadata (media.xml, books.db) during 'sync_booklists', then automatic/manual doesn't really matter. And really, I find that the driver is simpler if you do your metadata work in 'sync_booklists'.
The only things missing in the T1 driver versus the 505 driver are:
- "Use Author Sort" option so you don't need a plugboard for it. (And that is something I've got working again)
- Being able to toggle "Scan all folders". It scans all folders on internal memory and the SD card by default. This helps catch downloads on the device. If you could turn it off, there would be some interesting bugs that just don't have a reliable fix. I have to leave it turned on for my 950 with the 505 driver, so I don't see this as a
loss of functionality.
As far as I can tell, it is already at feature parity with the 505 driver with those two exceptions.