[seemingly abandonware] iPod manager
Reply #794 – 2008-01-17 23:49:04
Sorry if this was covered before, I did do a quick search. Is it possible to have the albums in the iPod library sorted first by date and then by name, or you don't have any control over this? I do have control over this. However, messing with the sort order can get complicated, mainly due to issues with the 5G iPod. If they added support for all of the sort fields in the last firmware update for the 5G then it would make my life easier. I am not sure if they did though. It's easy to check though if you have a 5G iPod: Hold Ctrl whilst clicking the 'View iPod device information' button in foo_dop prefs. Check if there is an entry as follows:<key>SortFieldsSupported</key> <true/> Yes, I expect that iTunes deduced the scanned status implicitly... if it is marked has having "accurate" or "estimated" gapless info then by definition it has been scanned. Here is where a workaround may be possible... I assume foo_dop doesn't use the "estimated" option for gapless as it has no mechanism for estimating gapless info (and I don't think anybody wants one). I presume iTunes estimates gapless info by just scanning for silence at the beginning and end of the track. Of course, some tracks may not have any silence at all (the track genuinely ends at the end of an MPEG frame) and so iTunes will add estimated gapless data to this effect. What foo_dop could do is mark all tracks with no accurate data as having "estimated" gapless data that equates to "no lead in, no lead out". The iPod playback of the file would be completely unaffected but iTunes would think the file had been scanned already and would not try to rescan. Ignoring other concerns, setting the track's gapless data as 'estimated' doesn't seem to stop iTunes from rescanning it.Yes I think it was that message... I only used this app as it offered more flexibility over how to classify videos (i.e. as Music Video, TV Show, Film etc.). Some of the other apps (and iTunes) allow you to edit video specific metadata about the show, like episode number, series etc. I've nothing against using foo_dop, but as foobar isn't much of a video handler itself I wasn't expecting much in that regard from foo_dop. Had you considered a dedicated video handling dialogue, for adding video and editing the database metadata directly? Just a thought. [edit] Oh wow, how did I never spot the video specific metadata fields in your FAQ? Doh! Hmm yes as you noticed it is possible to control those through metadata I did realise already that a specific tagging dialog for those fields is kinda needed, but I put it off as just the underlying functionality is good enough, at least for a TEST version anyway As a compromise you could use Quick/Mass Tagger presets.OK, I have a feature request. I've fallen over a bug / feature of the new iPod classic, whereby it orders episodes in a TV series according to the "release date" and not the episode number. See:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6298710 Could we get a field mapping for this database field? Or is there one already? [edit] on the other hand it is widely being reported as a bug in the latest firmware, hopefully Apple will fix it. Hmm no remapping but there are metadata fields for them. There are various sort tables for the TV shows so not sure if the Classic is not using them or they are the problem or what... iTunes 7.6 was released very close to the recent firmware update. I'll try and check it out anyway.I'm not explicitly sorting by that, but it's the criteria for being added to most of my smart playlists. Most of them are of the type "Date added < [1|7|30] days" or "Last played < [1|2|7] days" Anything based off number of plays is sorted by that and is easy enough to browse that way, but all of the time based ones appear to be sorted by when they were added onto the iPod. So when I use those playlists on my iPod, browsing gets interesting. Also when I do a load library in foobar2000 and play songs off my ipod as an external hard drive, I generally just skip to the bottom of the list and listen to the most recently added stuff. In foobar it's easy enough to re-sort the albums that are jumbled up, but on the iPod itself it's a pain. OK. I'm looking into changing it.