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Reply #2425 –
Quote from: Tooobe on
the plugin always wants to remove many mp3 files which shall be added in return, why!?



This happens to me all the time but is understandable. I have playback statistics set to write statistics to tags. So each play or rated song, tags are written. I have not compared the file stamps but the file is different so naturally foo_dop wants to update the file I just let it. If I don't want to wait for the files to remove and copy I just do "re-write database" command.

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Reply #2426 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
I will send you a version later on that logs some info which should explain what's going on..


I found out what's the problem: I have to mark all files in the foobar playlist and reload the file info!

Obviously the ipod manager compares the tracks in the playlists with the files on the iPod and not the files on the hard drive with the iPod one's!

So If you want to rescan your whole library then click library/album list and then right click on "all music" and choose tagging/reload info from files.

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Reply #2427 –
Quote from: Tooobe on
I found out what's the problem: I have to mark all files in the foobar playlist and reload the file info!

Obviously the ipod manager compares the tracks in the playlists with the files on the iPod and not the files on the hard drive with the iPod one's!

So If you want to rescan your whole library then click library/album list and then right click on "all music" and choose tagging/reload info from files.
That makes a bit more sense.

It does use file info that foobar2000 provides but it always requests foobar2000 to "load info if they have changed" for all source files which was supposed to these kind of issues. Are you using foobar2000 version 0.9.6.x and are the files in your media library? Do you use any external tagging programs?
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Reply #2428 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Are you using foobar2000 version 0.9.6.x and are the files in your media library? Do you use any external tagging programs?


I'm using 0.9.6.9. Yes, the files are in the media library. I lately used MP3Gain to adjust the db of all my mp3 files. In this program I chosed not to change the date of the mp3 files.

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Reply #2429 –
Yes, that would likely be the problem. Preserving the modified date would have prevented the changes from being seen in foobar2000, but if the file was copied to the iPod afterwards the copy would have the changes and then foo_dop was seeing some difference in the tags or something..

So don't use any options to preserve modified dates as it will cause issues..
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Reply #2430 –
A wonderful relief that I now can tell Itunes to fuck off thanks to this wonderufl plugin:)

WOHOOOO!:)

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Reply #2431 –
I am getting the following error in the console each time syncing my iPhone. There is not any adverse effects just thought I would let you know, may be harmless. I don't have any iTune U content on the iPhone either.

Code: [Select]
[08:18:55] iPod manager: SQL post process command error: duplicate column name: is_itunes_u

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Reply #2432 –
Can foo_dop sync ratings / play_counts with iPhone both ways? It just clears them all in ipod playlist when i press "load library" or "rewrite database"
 

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Reply #2433 –
Quote from: Shinsou on
Can foo_dop sync ratings / play_counts with iPhone both ways? It just clears them all in ipod playlist when i press "load library" or "rewrite database"


I don't have any problems getting counts and ratings both ways on my phone. Just don't sync with iTunes between syncs with foo_dop as that will kill them. I usually do a syncronize or rewrite database. You do have these songs in your foobar2000 library?

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Reply #2434 –
Quote from: metalboy on
Quote from: Shinsou on
Can foo_dop sync ratings / play_counts with iPhone both ways? It just clears them all in ipod playlist when i press "load library" or "rewrite database"


I don't have any problems getting counts and ratings both ways on my phone. Just don't sync with iTunes between syncs with foo_dop as that will kill them. I usually do a syncronize or rewrite database. You do have these songs in your foobar2000 library?

Yes, these songs are in my library. I didn't sync iphone with itunes.
Choosing "sync with ipod" or "rewrite database" doesn't sync any tags with foobar.

An example: a song has 3 stars rating. iPod shows it correctly. I changed the rating to 5 stars; closed the ipod and clicked Rewrite DB in foobar. Ipod shows 3 stars again.. Looks like its syncing one way, foobar>>ipod only.

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Reply #2435 –
Hi,

I'm using foo_dop 0.6.5.7 and foobar 0.9.6.9 with an iPhone 3GS. Whenever I try to send a song to the iPhone I get the following:

Please install/reinstall the MobileDeviceSign library.

What can I do?

Thanks,
Mark.

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Reply #2437 –
Quote from: Shinsou on
Yes, these songs are in my library. I didn't sync iphone with itunes.
Choosing "sync with ipod" or "rewrite database" doesn't sync any tags with foobar.

An example: a song has 3 stars rating. iPod shows it correctly. I changed the rating to 5 stars; closed the ipod and clicked Rewrite DB in foobar. Ipod shows 3 stars again.. Looks like its syncing one way, foobar>>ipod only.


This is not happening to me. I de-rated a song from 5 to 4 and it did show up in foobar that way. I did play the entire song though.

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Reply #2438 –
Playing the entire song is the key. I guess foo_dop looks at songs played for the statistics. The iPhone doesn't consider a song played unless it is completely played to the end. You can use the slider to skip to the end of the song though. That will make the changes stick.

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Reply #2439 –
You're right. Playing the whole song does the trick. But moving slider to the end doesn't force ipods database to update.

This is strange behaviour because in itunes its enough to move the slider to end without listening whole song. AND itunes syncs ratings even if the song wasn't played! I'd like this to be fixed...

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Reply #2440 –
Quote from: Shinsou on
You're right. Playing the whole song does the trick. But moving slider to the end doesn't force ipods database to update.

This is strange behaviour because in itunes its enough to move the slider to end without listening whole song. AND itunes syncs ratings even if the song wasn't played! I'd like this to be fixed...


Moving the slider works for me that is, just like I had played the song. I have a playlist "not rated" that I go through to rate songs. Typically, it is songs that don't have a playcount as well. If it happens to be a song I don't like, I skip to the end, that way showing I have played the song and the rating that goes with it. I never had a case where I rated a song and not played it, though. I would say mostly my editing of song by rating or whatnot is done in foobar though.

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Reply #2441 –
I probably can guess the answer to this ("No"), but is there any way to make the updates made with this plugin visible in iTunes?

If I add tracks in foo_dop, the tracks are not visible if I reload the database through iTunes. I would love to be able to get rid of iTunes all together (foo_dop + foo_podcatcher + foo_audioscrobbler would probably do this for me), but I'm still a bit hesitant to dump iTunes until I know everything works fine without a hitch. (Same reason I've been hesitant to just switch to Rockbox outright.)

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Reply #2442 –
Quote from: Zarggg on
I probably can guess the answer to this ("No"), but is there any way to make the updates made with this plugin visible in iTunes?

If I add tracks in foo_dop, the tracks are not visible if I reload the database through iTunes. I would love to be able to get rid of iTunes all together (foo_dop + foo_podcatcher + foo_audioscrobbler would probably do this for me), but I'm still a bit hesitant to dump iTunes until I know everything works fine without a hitch. (Same reason I've been hesitant to just switch to Rockbox outright.)


no you can't use both to edit the music database, as far as I know. You need to make the switch or not, you can always revert back...

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Reply #2443 –
Well, technically I couldn't, because if I switched back to iTunes, I'd have essentially lost all the changes I made using foobar, and there's no "recover orphaned tracks" type option in iTunes to help me find the files to re-add them.

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Reply #2444 –
i noticed there are check boxes for playlists in the sync dialog box.  do these playlists just get added to the ipod during the sync, or can they be used to sync the entire ipod library.  what i want to do is create a playlist and call it ipod sync that i can add/remove albums to and sync my ipod library to that playlist rather than my media library (my home library is much larger than the capacity of my player).

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Reply #2445 –
Quote from: metalboy on
I am getting the following error in the console each time syncing my iPhone. There is not any adverse effects just thought I would let you know, may be harmless. I don't have any iTune U content on the iPhone either.
Don't worry about it, it's normal.

Quote from: Shinsou on
You're right. Playing the whole song does the trick. But moving slider to the end doesn't force ipods database to update.

This is strange behaviour because in itunes its enough to move the slider to end without listening whole song. AND itunes syncs ratings even if the song wasn't played! I'd like this to be fixed...
Not sure I can see any reason for that, unless the new rating is zero..

Quote from: Zarggg on
Well, technically I couldn't, because if I switched back to iTunes, I'd have essentially lost all the changes I made using foobar, and there's no "recover orphaned tracks" type option in iTunes to help me find the files to re-add them.
You need to check 'manually manage music and videos' in iTunes, sounds like you haven't.

Quote from: rubber soul on
i noticed there are check boxes for playlists in the sync dialog box.  do these playlists just get added to the ipod during the sync, or can they be used to sync the entire ipod library.  what i want to do is create a playlist and call it ipod sync that i can add/remove albums to and sync my ipod library to that playlist rather than my media library (my home library is much larger than the capacity of my player).
It will sync the contents of the playlist and then create the playlist as well.
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Reply #2446 –
Quote from: metalboy on
Moving the slider works for me that is, just like I had played the song.
which device do you own?

Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: Shinsou on

This is strange behaviour because in itunes its enough to move the slider to end without listening whole song. AND itunes syncs ratings even if the song wasn't played! I'd like this to be fixed...
Not sure I can see any reason for that, unless the new rating is zero..
I've tried various ratings (1-5). Could this be a specific iphone problem?

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Reply #2448 –
OK I can confirm that sliding is not working. I completely re-added my library to phone (not related to this) and now it does not work. So, before my reload working now not. Tried with re-write database and synchronize as well.

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Reply #2449 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: Zarggg on
Well, technically I couldn't, because if I switched back to iTunes, I'd have essentially lost all the changes I made using foobar, and there's no "recover orphaned tracks" type option in iTunes to help me find the files to re-add them.
You need to check 'manually manage music and videos' in iTunes, sounds like you haven't.

Actually, that option has been set since day one. Since my library is not in iTunes, and is nominally stored in formats not supported by iTunes or iPod, I have to manually add files and do not sync.