Oh Crap! I thought when you dragged the files from you PC and did a rescan on the 640H it automatically added the files to the hard drive on the 640H? or am I doing this completely wrong and I hang my head in shame
You ARE correct. you are not doing anything wrong.
Actually what happens is when you drag the files from your PC to the 640H you are doing just that...copying the files across.
At this point the 640H will
not include them in the database and therefore from the 640H menus, these new files are not yet available.
When you do a rescan (you know the
'pause/break' key takes you to the rescan page in one keypress? ...if you use a keyboard, of course ;-) ) then the files are scooped up and then you can access them.
There is another way of doing this that I kind-of like and use more frequently and this is more efficient if you have loads of music on the 640H itself....
Here's what I do....
On my PC, I move all the 'new' music to a folder called, say, NEW and I share this as NEW.
Then in the 640H I add a location called NEW and direct the 640H to this folder.
1st time you'll be asked to scan, thereafter you'll need to rescan - but ONLY rescan the NEW location. This'll generally be very quick if you have only added a few 10s of albums. Mega quick if only a couple of albums.
Then on the 640H go to "Send to" with only NEW lcoation selected (select sources quickly using the
Insert key) and send it to the hard drive.
Following this approach means that the NEW files get transfered (together with any album art files that were on the PC in NEW folder too - neat) but the real benefit (if you're still reading this far...) is that you DO NOT need to rescan the whole of your hard drive, making this process pretty damned fast. Seems that letting the 640H do the copying automatically appends the info in its database. Obvious really.
Comparing the two methods,....both copy the files across (pretty much the same speed), but the scanning (in my case, at least) is so much slicker.
Took me a while to find this method, but now this is the way I work.
Once the 640H has "collected" all the new stuff, you can re-file/delete the music from the PC folder NEW....it's then residing on the 640H
Next time you want to add stuff, on the pc siimply put the music in NEW and rescan and "Send to" again. simple.
Hope this helps....and apologies for the long post ;-(