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Reply #3400 –
Quote from: frogworth on
If you're looking at actual playlists that you've synced, the order is purely and simply the order that the tracks appeared in your foobar playlist - that's what you're syncing, and that's where you have to change it.


Weird... 'cause for me, I have for example this playlist in foobar, in this order:

Berserk - Murder
Clan Of Xymox - A Day
Clan Of Xymox - Consolation

And when syncing this playlist to my iPod the order becomes:

Clan Of Xymox - A Day
Berserk - Murder
Clan Of Xymox - Consolation

The Cover Flow is in perfect order though... but the playlists...

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Reply #3401 –
Also in response to spuunit and adeidein. You can control the sorting in the iPod to some extent by using metadata mappings for the "Sort" fields. For example, I have my Sort Artist set to

Code: [Select]
$if(%IS_IN_ATTIC%,zzzz ,$if(%GENRE_CLASSICAL%,zzzy ,$if(%SINGLE_OR_EP%,zzzx ,)))%album artist%


This setting will sort Coverflow for example such that all Singles/EPs come after "normal" albums, classical music after the singles and all old stuff that I don't frequently listen to (which I mark as "IS_IN_ATTIC") at the very end of the list.

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Reply #3402 –
@spuunit, hm OK that's weird! Hopefully our patron musicmusic can shed some light on that...

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Reply #3403 –
Quote from: the_other_way on
Anybody if/how foobar can sync with the latest generation of the nano?
I have the latest version of foobar, iphonecalc.dll in my general foobar folder, and foo_dop.dll in my components folder; however I still get the 'unable to write to database message' when I try to sync. I'm a relative new user so sorry if this is a repost - thank you everyone!
Probably an old iPhoneCalc.dll.

Quote from: jahtimes on
I have an iPod 5G, I wonder if all my played tracks can be updated on Last.FM. I didn't find a subject on that. When I use Itunes, I see my "playcount", is it possible that this "playcount" may be updated on Last.FM ?

For example I have "Soudtrack to fail in love - Charlie Winston" played 22 times. Is it possible, when i connect my iPod that on my profile last.FM, to see that Soundtrack to fail in love has been playing 22 times ?

Sorry for my english. I didn't find a subject on this thread precisely !

Thanks again.
Quote from: jahtimes on
I read 75 last pages and i Have the same problem that one user :

iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: duplicate column name: rental_expired
iPod manager: Generate SQLite database completed in 1.1931322 s

When I rewrite database, i get this on the console. Someone can help me please?
Not sure if it was you who you e-mailed me, but you need Florian's foo_audioscrobbler and that warning can be ignored.

Quote from: spuuunit on
Excuse me cause I'm a noob, but I need some help. My sorting of playlists in my iPod goes after the last modified date I think. How do I do so that the sorting goes after what is set in foobar?

I got foobar v1.1.2, iPod 5g.
No such option exists in the component I'm afraid; also some models always display them alphabetically.

Quote from: aeidein on
Ignore leading The/A - Currently, The Beatles show up in the right section, with the rest of the B artists.  However, when scrolling through the artist list, it will show "T"  in the overlay as it scrolls by (i.e., A B T B C D).  How do I fix this?
Limitation of the iPod 5G. It only works correctly there on a couple of screens; you can use the remappings as an alternative solution which will also change what is displayed.

Quote from: aeidein on
iPod Features - Artwork
If I leave the Source Script box blank but check "Add artwork files sent to iPod" and "Additionally use Foobar built-in art reader", will it ignore folder.* and only display embedded art?
Not necessarily. It depends on your core foobar2000 album art settings.

Quote from: aeidein on
Behavior - Sort iPod library playlist by
I have it set to %album artist% - %date% - %album% - %discnumber% - %tracknumber% - %title%.  However, on the iPod, after selecting an artist from the Artists list, it displays the albums in alphabetical order.
That option is in the 'Load library' group; it actually affects that command in foobar2000 and not anything displayed on the device.

Quote from: aeidein on
How do I get them to display in chronological order?
You can use the remappings (album or sort album).

Quote from: spuuunit on
This is so frustrating... I've set "Sort iPod library playlist by" to "%artist% - %band% - %date% - %album% - %tracknumber% - %title%", but nothing happens, it still sorts by last added to iPod... Any ideas would help.
Answered above.

Quote from: spuuunit on
The Cover Flow is in perfect order though... but the playlists...
If you have "Force sort playlists" unticked (a badly named option I'll admit) the playlists will simply be in the order created by the component. So not any particular order.
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Reply #3404 –
Quote from: dub4u on
Also in response to spuunit and adeidein. You can control the sorting in the iPod to some extent by using metadata mappings for the "Sort" fields. For example, I have my Sort Artist set to

Code: [Select]
$if(%IS_IN_ATTIC%,zzzz ,$if(%GENRE_CLASSICAL%,zzzy ,$if(%SINGLE_OR_EP%,zzzx ,)))%album artist%


This setting will sort Coverflow for example such that all Singles/EPs come after "normal" albums, classical music after the singles and all old stuff that I don't frequently listen to (which I mark as "IS_IN_ATTIC") at the very end of the list.


Yeah, I've fixed my Cover Flow exactly how I want it to show, that works excellent. I choose to sort it like this myself: '%artist% - %band% - %date% - %album% - %tracknumber% - %title%'.

Quote from: musicmusic on
No such option exists in the component I'm afraid; also some models always display them alphabetically.


Aaaw, too bad. It would be nice.

Quote from: frogworth on
@spuunit, hm OK that's weird! Hopefully our patron musicmusic can shed some light on that...


Yeah, if it's possible. musicmusic doesn't think so I'm afraid.

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Reply #3405 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: mobyduck on
Quote from: Der Internet on
If I'm not mistaken, I think you can get rid of all embedded and additional cover arts: just point foobar to you high-res pictures and foo_dop will scale them when sending to the iPod.

At least this is my understanding of foo_dop artwork management: musicmusic or someone else will eventually correct me.
Essentially, yes, that is it. The iPod doesn't read embedded art; the artwork is stored on the device separately in a number of device-dependent formats

Which size does it downscale them to?
Can't wait for a HD-AAC encoder :P
 

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Reply #3406 –
It depends on the device. The information is under Shift + File/iPod/Raw properties but the answer is generally in whatever resolutions they are actually displayed at (apart from the angled/slanted coverflow ones).
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Reply #3407 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
It depends on the device. The information is under Shift + File/iPod/Raw properties but the answer is generally in whatever resolutions they are actually displayed at (apart from the angled/slanted coverflow ones).


Don't know ether. I got iPod g5, and my covers are all in 300 x 300 px, and the quality is splendid. The resolution of the screen is 320 x 240, so keeping the cover at at least 240 x 240 should make the cover good quality in the iPod.

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Reply #3408 –
Maybe this is buried in the thread, but I just picked up an iPad. I'm running 4.3.1, and running into a strange album art bug. It seems like the iPad's iPod app expects album art to be resized before hand, and simply shows the album art at a 1:1 ratio. The result is any album art that's over 768x768 in size gets cropped. It does resize for the lock screen though.

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Reply #3409 –
Hi,
Oops, looks like the component isn't scaling the artwork for JPEG formats - thanks for the report, I'll fix that for the next version.

Can you send me the output of Shift + File/iPod/Raw properties (checkpoint data)? There are some other JPEG formats but I'm not sure what device they are for (they have slightly odd parameters).

The quality is specified by the device it seems, but they all say "<string>00000300</string>". I wasn't too sure what that was supposed to mean and went with 30/100; that seems quite low on reflection, I'll change it to 75.
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Reply #3410 –
Very nice, just in time for my switch to use my iPad 2 as my livingroom-player instead of foobar2000

@zim: Nice taste
Can't wait for a HD-AAC encoder :P

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Reply #3411 –
I did ask zim2411, but you or anyone with an iPad could do this to help me out:
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Anyway, if you are able to send one video using iTunes (so that it is the most recent file sent) and then backup the iTunes_Control\Artwork\F3021.ithmb and ArtworkDB files (you can do this using the File System Explorer in iPod manager) and send them to me

There are a couple of artwork formats I still need to make sense of.
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Reply #3412 –
Version 0.6.9.0 released.

iPad artwork issues should be fixed, but you will need to remove and resend the affected tracks.

There are several enhancements and fixes for podcast support. There should no longer be any problems after downloading podcasts in-device for at least iOS 4.3 devices. Apple-style chapters should now be correctly read and shown on the device, including chapter images - but let me know if you find any podcasts where they aren't (but are shown in iTunes).
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Reply #3413 –
I have a quick question about on-the-fly conversion. I want fb2k to convert any file in an unsupported format or over 256kb/s to a V0 mp3. What parameters do I enter?

I've looked around for about an hour and I can't find anything. I either suck at googling or I'm the only one who doesn't know the proper commands.

Thanks in advance.

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Reply #3414 –
Quote from: brendyman on
I have a quick question about on-the-fly conversion. I want fb2k to convert any file in an unsupported format or over 256kb/s to a V0 mp3. What parameters do I enter?

I've looked around for about an hour and I can't find anything. I either suck at googling or I'm the only one who doesn't know the proper commands.

Thanks in advance.


just for the record, are you aware of the double compression you will do to mp3s <256kbit? or are these flac/ape files? (you can ignore this if youre listening with those white iPod-Earphones  )

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Reply #3415 –
Hi everyone,

I'm running Windows 7 and I have a 5th gen iPod Video (30GB) with the last firmware that was released for it.  I recently purchased some new music online on the artist's website via Topspin.  I haven't edited the tags on these tracks at all.  I put the new music into foobar and it uploaded to my iPod without any trouble at all.

My problem is that the next time I synced my iPod, I was told that 5 out of 12 of these tracked were going to be removed, and then added again.  I get this same message every single time I sync my iPod (I have done it many times since the first instance). 

So basically, if I were not adding/removing any other music:

Track 1    Remove
Track 2    Remove
Track 3    Remove
Track 4    Remove
Track 5    Remove
Track 1    Add
Track 2    Add
Track 3    Add
Track 4    Add
Track 5    Add

I've added new music to the iPod since this problem started, and this does not happen for any of that music.  Out of all of my music these are the only tracks that I have seen do this.  The tags on these five tracks aren't any different from the other seven and all of the file types are the same.  Like I said, I got all of these from the same place (the artist's website).  The tracks always end up on the iPod, but they are just for some reason removed and then added.

If anyone has any suggestions on how I might go about fixing this they would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!!! 

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Reply #3416 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Version 0.6.9.0 released.

iPad artwork issues should be fixed, but you will need to remove and resend the affected tracks.


Fixed! Thank you good sir!

Any chance we could get a JPEG quality option in the preferences? I'm still noticing some JPEG compression artifacts, but it's nothing major.

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Reply #3417 –
Quote from: brendyman on
I have a quick question about on-the-fly conversion. I want fb2k to convert any file in an unsupported format or over 256kb/s to a V0 mp3. What parameters do I enter?

I've looked around for about an hour and I can't find anything. I either suck at googling or I'm the only one who doesn't know the proper commands.

Thanks in advance.
Well, you would tick the box for converting unsupported formats, tick the box for converting files above a specified bit rate and enter the bit rate, specify the encoder as lame.exe, and enter the parameters which would be something like (untested):
Code: [Select]
-S --noreplaygain -V 0 - %d


Quote from: jjcarter on
I'm running Windows 7 and I have a 5th gen iPod Video (30GB) with the last firmware that was released for it.  I recently purchased some new music online on the artist's website via Topspin.  I haven't edited the tags on these tracks at all.  I put the new music into foobar and it uploaded to my iPod without any trouble at all.

My problem is that the next time I synced my iPod, I was told that 5 out of 12 of these tracked were going to be removed, and then added again.  I get this same message every single time I sync my iPod (I have done it many times since the first instance).
If it happens on two consecutive syncs for the same files, then try doing a 'Reload Info' under Tools in the Properties for the affected original tracks.

Quote from: zim2411 on
Fixed! Thank you good sir!
Great

Quote from: zim2411 on
Any chance we could get a JPEG quality option in the preferences? I'm still noticing some JPEG compression artifacts, but it's nothing major.
Let me do some testing and bump it if necessary. I don't think it needs an option; it would be difficult for someone to make a judgement on what to set it to as you can't see the resultant image size and surely the interpretation of the quality parameter is encoder dependant.
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Reply #3418 –
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If it happens on two consecutive syncs for the same files, then try doing a 'Reload Info' under Tools in the Properties for the affected original tracks.


Unfortunately this didn't work for me.  I was however able to figure out a rather odd solution.  All I did was edit the tags on the tracks (I just changed the titles a little bit), and then loaded them onto my iPod (replacing the correctly tagged tracks).  Then I corrected the tags and synced my iPod again.  The tracks were on the iPod with the correct tags, and when I synced the iPod again, the problem ceased to exist!

Thanks for your reply to my problem.  This is such an awesome component... I can't thank you enough for making it possible for me to ditch iTunes.  Thanks a million and keep up the good work! 

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Reply #3419 –
0.6.9.1 released. It mainly has some file conversion related enhancements; let me know if anything is broken.

Quote from: musicmusic on
Let me do some testing and bump it if necessary.
I increased it to 95. It should be OK now.

Quote from: jjcarter on
Unfortunately this didn't work for me.  I was however able to figure out a rather odd solution.  All I did was edit the tags on the tracks (I just changed the titles a little bit), and then loaded them onto my iPod (replacing the correctly tagged tracks).  Then I corrected the tags and synced my iPod again.  The tracks were on the iPod with the correct tags, and when I synced the iPod again, the problem ceased to exist!
OK. Well, let me know if it happens again..
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Reply #3420 –
Apologies for nooby question, but I've been getting this sorted for hours, and found a problem i'm unsure of how to fix. I'm using nero's aac codec for conversion, however the default conversion is 127kbps... how do I make it higher? (i used to use mp3 with old computer and ipod, and remember the answer being quite basic, but not sure with this...)

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Reply #3421 –
It is VBR, set at quality 0.40 by default. If you want to increase it, you need to change the "0.40" in the encoder parameters in preferences.
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Reply #3422 –
Ah thanks, I wasn't sure which I was meant to change. Thanks again!

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Reply #3423 –
Hey there, great plugin, really good work.

I do have one problem though. I've recently been moving my music collection to FLAC, so I thought I'd try out the function to transcode unsupported formats.

I'm using the x64 version of LAME 3.98.4 to encode, and I use the same .exe with EAC and All2lame with no problems at all.

The only flags I'm using are -b 320, which is exactly what I use with All2lame. However, when encoding it will seemingly encode all the files (it will say 200 remaining, 100 remaining and so on until it gets to 0, then say a couple of other things in the progress window) before giving me the error message:

"Failed to add file to iPod: Conversion failed - Unexpected process exit code 0000000 1h"

For all of my files. Any pointers? Help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

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Reply #3424 –
Did you include " - %d" at the end of your parameters? i.e.
Code: [Select]
-b 320 - %d
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