The one iPod Syncopation always turned away, let in. Delivered to Apple as 1.3 — pending Apple approval.

Synco-shufflé. The iPod shuffle, 4th generation. A shuffle keeps its library in a list of its own rather than the database every other click-wheel iPod uses, so it got a writer of its own — checked byte for byte against the list Apple's software writes. It has no screen, so it talks: track names and its own status messages, recorded on your Mac in a voice you pick in Settings, from the voices installed for your language. The whole library goes on, or one Biblio playlist becomes the shuffle's list in playlist order. FLAC and AIFF become Apple Lossless on the way, as on every iPod. Only the 4th, for now; its elders wait in the hall.

Rockbox. A Rockbox player is an MP3 player to Synco. Music files are managed as expected.

One converter. Every iPod now gets its Apple Lossless from the same Core Audio pipeline the shuffle insisted on. Fewer moving parts; the same 16-bit rules.

Synco-cair, tuned. It listens further into a song, where the music is, and asks twice before giving up — so more of the hard ones come back named. Held rows now say who to believe first.

Housekeeping. Settings sorted by what you're doing — General, Biblio, Cair. A Getting Started sheet under Help: the cliff notes, not the manual. The library index reads fast on any Mac, Intel included. Match stops asking about removals on every sync; Erase leaves a player's hidden files alone; an empty destination says so with a straight face.

REF · synco.uno/dispatches#shuffle

Everything you own, in one window. Once an app can see a collection rather than merely copy it, considerably more becomes possible — three engines' worth. Released September 14 2026 as 1.2.2, folding in the 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 repairs — on the Mac App Store.

Synco-biblio. The library as a shelf and as a wall of covers; an album slides out to its tracks. Playlists you build and reorder, sent to the iPod one at a time or all together. Music dropped in is copied into the library, loose tracks filed by their tags. Playback with a Now Playing card, and a chip that stays out of the way. The Mac's own Now Playing follows along — track, cover and position in Control Center and the menu bar — and the keyboard's media keys and the buttons on your headphones play, pause, skip and scrub it.

Synco-cair. The library, sorted. Every track is identified and filed into its real Artist / Album folder, with the album, artist, title, track and disc numbers, genre, year and cover all put right — missing covers, thumbnails and wrong names among them. It reads what is already there first and leaves complete tracks alone; the sure ones are filed on their own, the rest wait for one look and one click, and anything it can't place stays where it is. File formats are preserved. Video files are never touched.

Synco-auditoré. A five-band equalizer and gain on playback — live while a track plays, remembered between launches.

Synco-pod, finished. Podcasts now file to the iPod's own Podcasts menu the way audiobooks already did — resuming where you stopped, kept out of shuffle. Tested on the nano.

Housekeeping. A Library Scanning screen holds the door while the index reads, so nothing runs on a half-read shelf. And a switch in Settings, Prevent Syncopation from Internet Access, which does exactly that: Synco-cair goes dark, and nothing else ever needed the network in the first place.

Repairs. exFAT cards stop losing tracks named with a “?” or a trailing space, and a changed track is replaced instead of stranded. The same song landing on a device twice is folded back to one copy at the start of a sync — iPod or card, no full erase. A restored iPod is named from its own record, not the last one seen. An iPod is kept out of the plain-folder list, and the destination says “Choose…” after an eject. Full changelog on GitHub.

REF · synco.uno/dispatches#bibliotek