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Reply #975 –
Hi musicmusic, I've just tried to scrobble from my ipod 3G, using foo_dop 0.5.5 and foo_audioscrobbler 1.3.15, but foo_dop can't retrieve my play count.
I get the error:
[code]Error reading Play Counts file : Unsupported format or corrupted file[code]

Maybe it doesn't work with the 3G, but I'm not sure. What should I do ?
Sorry for the bad english, I'm french .

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Reply #976 –
Check if the file is zero bytes - it should be in "\iPod_Control\iTunes\Play Counts" on your iPod. If it is, delete it, it should work after that (AFAIK this is a bug with 3G iPods). [edit] Actually foo_dop should be deleting it anyway so it's probably not this.

If it is not zero bytes, can you upload it somewhere so I can check it?
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Reply #977 –
Well, that can explain the problem.Although I did listen some track with it, I don't even have a play count file :/

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G:\IPOD_C~1\ITUNES
    iTunesControl
    iTunesDB.dop.backup
    iTunesDB
    dopdb.backup
    dopdb
    iTunesPrefs.bku
    iTunesPrefs


edit: Hmm I rewrote the database and now it's working. It did'nt count tracks I played before though, I don't know why the play count file disappeared.

Code: [Select]
Audioscrobbler: Importing played tracks from iPod (Benjy)
Audioscrobbler: Finished importing 5 tracks.



Thanks !

edit2: By the way, I can't use $cwb_ltrim(%artist%,The ,Les ,A ,La ) in artist mapping, it doesn't seem to work, you add a checkbox to ignore leading "The", but it would be great to choose what we want to ignore leading (I'm french, and I prefer to ignore leading "Les" and "La" too)
Sorry for the bad english, I'm french .

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Reply #978 –
OK. As I remember the 3G iPod will sometimes corrupt the Play Count file (make it zero bytes). When that happens, it doesn't create a valid one until the file is removed. I think this has something to do with when the iPod goes into deep sleep or the iPod rebooting. If you search on google you should find some info about it.

No, you can't use $cwb_ltrim etc. in the remappings. I may be able change this now, I'll look into it.

BTW: That checkbox affects sorting only, whereas the remappings affect display as well.
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Reply #979 –
I have a question..
My girlfriend is buying me a 160G iPod for my 30th birthday and I have NO plans of using iTunes and this plugin seems just perfect..

All my album covers (Folder.jpg) are in high resolution wich are between 1 and 2 meg each. I've read that this plugin adds it into ID3 tags.. is there an option to resize album covers before adding it to the tags?



I don't have the iPod yet but I took a look at the plugin anyway and didn't see that as an option. 1 to 2 megs added to each mp3, that will take a lot of space on the iPod for nothing..

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Reply #980 –
Thank you for your good work!! Works fine for me!

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Reply #981 –
Hi, when I update my iPod with my playlist containing FLAC, APE, and WMA files, it throws up an error message
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Failed to add file to iPod: Conversion failed - Unexpected process exit code FFFFFFFFh

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Reply #982 –
Quote from: BelleAndZEK on
I have a question..
My girlfriend is buying me a 160G iPod for my 30th birthday and I have NO plans of using iTunes and this plugin seems just perfect..

All my album covers (Folder.jpg) are in high resolution wich are between 1 and 2 meg each. I've read that this plugin adds it into ID3 tags.. is there an option to resize album covers before adding it to the tags?



I don't have the iPod yet but I took a look at the plugin anyway and didn't see that as an option. 1 to 2 megs added to each mp3, that will take a lot of space on the iPod for nothing..
No the original images are not copied to the iPod, unless they were already embedded in the files (in which case they would be copied with the file).

Quote from: foo_pm on
Thank you for your good work!! Works fine for me!
Great

Quote from: Saturos on
Hi, when I update my iPod with my playlist containing FLAC, APE, and WMA files, it throws up an error message
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Failed to add file to iPod: Conversion failed - Unexpected process exit code FFFFFFFFh
Well, what are your conversion settings (command line)?
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Reply #983 –
Ah, found the problem. Silliest problem ever. I had a file with a very long title, and the nero plugin choked on the file, refusing to process it. No problems aside from that. Works great especially the conversion on-the-fly, which is just something awesome that iTunes refuses to do. Thanks!

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Reply #984 –
I updated from 0.5.3 to 0.5.6 and I found that some of my album art is stuffed up.
All of my album art that is not 1:1 ratio, ie: my DVD album art with the ratio of 300 pixels to 407 pixels gets all squashed.

Any reason why?

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Reply #985 –
Quote from: Saturos on
Ah, found the problem. Silliest problem ever. I had a file with a very long title, and the nero plugin choked on the file, refusing to process it. No problems aside from that. Works great especially the conversion on-the-fly, which is just something awesome that iTunes refuses to do. Thanks!
But, input into the encoder is done via a pipe, so it doesn't know what the source path is. Strange.

Quote from: TheChipstar on
I updated from 0.5.3 to 0.5.6 and I found that some of my album art is stuffed up.
All of my album art that is not 1:1 ratio, ie: my DVD album art with the ratio of 300 pixels to 407 pixels gets all squashed.

Any reason why?
Yes, sounds like a bug. Can you describe exactly how they look (squashed horizontally or vertically or to a square etc.) and also what iPod model do you have. Thanks.
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Reply #986 –
I just received my 160G (Classic) iPod and have to say that everything went well so far with this plugin, no problem at all. It's actually the first time of my life I touch an iPod.



One thing tho, wich I believe is on the iPod side that needs to be 'fixed' but maybe it's possible to fix it with this plugin, and had been addressed a few times already and couldn't find an answer really....

I really don't like having the artists that are in compilations listed when browsing. I'd rather have them listed under Compilations only or their 'Album Artist' tags. Having a whole bunch of artists with only one song when browsing and browsing in CoverFlow, no good. Is there a workaround? If only we could browse by 'Album Artist', that would make things so much easier.



Any way to prevent this? Then everything would be A+++++++++++++++

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Reply #987 –
Anything is possible using 'artist' mapping.
I use this string:
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$if3($meta(album artist),$meta(artist))

All my compilations have 'album artist' tag (compilation author or 'various artist'). Dunno whats your situation, but I guess it will work. It displays 'album artist' as artist if avaible, if not - displays 'artist'.
Thats probably the best thing about dop

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Reply #988 –
Everything is tagged with 'Album Artist', compilations have 'Various Artists' for 'Album Artists'.

For artists such as 'Neil Young' and 'Neil Young and crazy Horse' I have set 'Album Artist' to Neil Young, so I'm guessing with the string above they will show up both as Neil Young? That's good, I'll try it now thanks.

Foobar2k and its components never cease to amaze me. I Wouldn't be surprised if there was a plugin out there that could do dishes and laundry for me

Edit: Doesn't work. I even tried putting %album artist% in Artist Mapping just to test and it didn't work. It was still showing artists that are in compilations...

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Reply #989 –
Oh, u must select menu -> ipod -> rewrite ipod database or refresh meta tags, not sure which one, I do both xD sorry ive didnt said it in first post :/

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Reply #990 –
Yes I did that and it didn't work. I've tried many times with different strings and I got the same results each time, artists from compilations still listed.
I noticed at one point that compilations were not listed in 'Compilations' anymore even if I still had the string to set compilations as compilations..

I must be doing something wrong..

- All my files have 'artist' and 'album artist' tags. 'Various Artists' for compilations in 'album artist'
- Artist mapping: $if3($meta(album artist),$meta(artist))
- Compilations mapping: $if($stricmp($directory(%_path%,2),'Various Artists'),1,0)
- Menu File > iPod > Synchronize iPod... > Synchronize with Media Library (Wich has only 4 directories for testing purposes: 2 normal albums + 2 compilations)
- Done adding file and album art to iPod.
- Menu File > iPod > Rewrite iPod Database. Done.
- Menu File > iPod > Rewrite iPod library metadata. Done.
- Eject iPod

Edit:
Another solution would be to browse by directory structure, is this possible?
Then it would be pretty much the same as browsing by 'Album Artist'.
I have my alburms sorted liks this:

Artist1
... Artist1 - Album1
... Artist1 - Album2

Artist2
... Artist2 - Album1
... Artist2 - Album2

Various Artists
... Various Artists - Album1
... Various Artists - Album2

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Reply #991 –
You shouldn't use the path field in the metadata mappings, it can refer to either the path on the iPod or your computer so will give inconsistent results.
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Reply #992 –
It works on my ipod very well, dunno whats the problem o.0 i do same moves as you. Maybe try syncing at the end? After rewriting database.

PS

If ALL your files have ALBUM ARTIST u can just use string
$meta(album artist)

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Reply #993 –
foo_dop 0.5.6.22 released. Fixes some bugs.

Regarding iPod touch support: What I really need is someone who is able to backup and restore the iTunesDB on the device to try and send a file to the iPod with 0.5.6.22 and see what happens. This could be one of the following:
-foo_dop dies
-The song shows up correctly
-Nothing appears to change on the device. In this case, with the iPod app on the device open, hold the home button down for several seconds to kill it. Then open it again and see if anything has changed.
-Nothing at all shows up on the device. In this case, there is something going wrong with the hash calculation and you should restore the iTunesDB backup and restart the iPod app as above.

Also, check what happens with regards to the display on the iPod (does it display the 'sync in progress' screen?)
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Reply #994 –
After some testing, it seems that my Album Artists tags don't get recognized.
I get empty fields if I put $meta(album artists) or %album artist%
I don't know why because it works with other tags. I've tested $meta(album) and $album% and both works.

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Reply #995 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Yes, sounds like a bug. Can you describe exactly how they look (squashed horizontally or vertically or to a square etc.) and also what iPod model do you have. Thanks.
musicmusic

The album art is trimmed/cropped vertically. It seems alright length wise, but the width of the album art is shortened - centered. It doesn't squash it shorter, but crops it shorter.
IE: It goes from say a 300:407 pixel ratio to a 200:407 ratio - with 50 pixels cropped off each side of the album art.

I am using an 80GB iPod 5.5G.

The version of foo_dop that I was previously using before trying the new v0.5.6.21, was v0.4.6, which worked perfectly with this ratio of album art. This the only update I have tried. I do not know at which version this bug appeared.

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Reply #996 –
Quote from: BelleAndZEK on
After some testing, it seems that my Album Artists tags don't get recognized.
I get empty fields if I put $meta(album artists) or %album artist%
I don't know why because it works with other tags. I've tested $meta(album) and $album% and both works.
You may have a typo, so try $meta(album artist)
Surf's Up!
"Columnated Ruins Domino"

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Reply #997 –
The later versions obey requests from the iPod to crop the artwork.

But, the last copy of the iPod property list from a 5.5G iPod I have doesn't request the artwork to be cropped (firmware 1.2.1).

If you go to foo_dop prefs and hold CTRL whilst clicking on view iPod device information there should be some XML formatted info displayed - copy the artwork section here which will tell us if this is the problem or something else. It looks like this:
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<key>AlbumArt</key>
<array>
...
</array>


[edit] Actually, I think this is related to some other change I made. I'll try reverting that.
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Reply #998 –
I know there's a typo in my last message, but I did type $meta(album artist) in Artist mapping.

It's like if all tags were transferred exept the album artist ones because both $meta(album artist) and %album artist% don't work (empty). So they appear as 'Unknown' on my iPod, and the fields are empty when I browse my iPod with foo_dop.

Edit: Actually no, when I use %album artist% it actually uses %artist%.

Edit 2: I've checked with foobar and my Album Artist tags are empty. I tagged them with Tag&Rename, maybe that's the probleme. Something wrong with Tag&Rename.

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Reply #999 –
Quote from: TheChipstar on
musicmusic

The album art is trimmed/cropped vertically. It seems alright length wise, but the width of the album art is shortened - centered. It doesn't squash it shorter, but crops it shorter.
IE: It goes from say a 300:407 pixel ratio to a 200:407 ratio - with 50 pixels cropped off each side of the album art.

I am using an 80GB iPod 5.5G.

The version of foo_dop that I was previously using before trying the new v0.5.6.21, was v0.4.6, which worked perfectly with this ratio of album art. This the only update I have tried. I do not know at which version this bug appeared.

Please try this version. I basically reverted a couple changes from memory that are probably the culprit.
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