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Not pretty.

I have iTunes and manage about 8gb of music, podcasts, etc. for my iPod, proir to purchasing the Droid.

I downloaded Salling Media Sync (free version) and installed on my PC (running Vista Home Premium). No problem installing Salling Media Sync.

First time I sync'd my iTunes library to the Droid, all my music, playlists and podcasts transferred no problem (8mb transferred in about 1 hr, as others on this forum indicated).

When I went to the Droid, all the music were properly and neatly organized by artist, album and playlist. HOWEVER, much of my album art did not transfer over. Doing some investigating, I learned that any albums or music that I loaded from CD-ROM and then downloaded the album art from iTunes, THAT album art did not transfer. Album art only transferred for music where (a) I purchased and downloaded music from iTunes, or (b) I loaded music from CD-ROM then manually added my own album art using iTunes... It's all cosmetic - some of you may not care about album art - but I like it and I want it. You won't get it with Salling Media Sync...

Then, when using Salling Media Sync (free version) to UPDATE my Droid to reflect recent changes to my iTunes library, sure enough the sync process froze, and the display on my Droid stopped working. I had to do a "force close" of Salling Media Sync and remove the battery from the Droid to get it working again.

Once I re-booted by Droid, the backlit buttons below the device display (Back, Menu, Home, Search) now only light up intermittently. Turning the Droid off and on doesn't help. Nice...

Tried Salling Media Sync again, same problem.

For those quasi-technical users like me, this is a headache. Droid is not living up to its "iDont" superiority assertions...

Other than this media syncing headache, the Droid is an awesome device and I already love it. But I am afraid trying to sync my iTunes to the Droid will dork it up big-time. Guess I will just pass on my Droid being a media device as well, and carry my iPod around along with my Droid.

I will try a few things (carefully, so as not to further mess up the Droid), and if I have any success, will surely post here.