I cannot add any songs to my friends 2gb iPod Nano. After I load the songs into foobar2000, I right-click and click Send To iPod. I then get an error how the songs cannot be found.

I really love the plugin, all seems to work brilliantly!  I'm really happy that it's transfering the ratings to the iPod, but will there be any support for transfering the ratings back off the iPod and onto my PC anytime soon?

Another thing, doesn't make any difference to the workings of the component, but when I go to 'View iPod Device Information' it says I've got an iPod Shuffle 1G Black, when I've got an iPod 2G Nano Black!

Sorry if this has been answered before, but do I need iTunes installed for this plugin to work? I transferred some songs to a freshly formatted iPod but when I turn the ipod after using foo_pod, it says "Connect the iPod to iTunes to recover" in many languages. What's with this?

Using 0.5 of foo_pod
iPod Video 30GB 5.5G
Vista

Sorry if this has been answered before, but do I need iTunes installed for this plugin to work? I transferred some songs to a freshly formatted iPod but when I turn the ipod after using foo_pod, it says "Connect the iPod to iTunes to recover" in many languages. What's with this?

Using 0.5 of foo_pod
iPod Video 30GB 5.5G
Vista

Quote from: Nemphael on 2007-10-03 23:38:51

Is there any progress in the area of statistics synchronizing? Only tiny little lack keeping me on the iTunes side.

Sorry, no. You mean syncing play stats from iPod back to local library?

Doing that to the file's embedded metadata is problematic: it would cause the file to be updated (copied again) on iPod at next sync. So I would prefer to do that to a local database - as I recall official foo_playcount uses such a database by default but I don't think it has an API so I can update it myself.

I've been given this some thought lately, and I've come to wonder - how about removing unnecessary metadata from files before adding the files to the iPod's database (iPods doesn't need %play_count, for instance%)? Of course, I'm talking about from the copy foo_dop makes, not the originals.

It's theoretically possible, and it shouldn't think of a file with new %rating%/%play_count% as new.

I would love to see a compilation feature that would:

  change the artist field to the album name
  then change the album to the artist
  and keep the songs the same

lm sick of having a thousand artist with just one song because there in a compilation

having a send as compilation feature would be awesome

Not sure if this is a bug, but anyway here it goes.
The plugin works fine here, but there is a little problem on my Nano 8gb 3rd gen, a game called iquiz came with it(for those who dont know this is a game which uses your songs on the ipod to make a quiz and so forth)anyway this game doesn't seem to work properly, because when it ask me a question like "which album is this song from" there should be a song playing, but there is not, so i have no clue how to answer the question.

This is nothing big of course, just a thing i noticed here the other day.

Indeed, it is a known issue. I tried to find the cause a while ago but failed unfortunately

The iPod does have some handling for compilations, though the only way to mark files a part of a compilation using foo_dop is to set the IPOD_COMPILATION meta field to 1. Alternatively you can set it using iTunes directly on the tracks on your iPod. Then you use the compilations feature on your ipod, it works a bit different on different models apparently, it may be a setting on your iPod as well.

That was a good hint, it is in fact path/filename length related.

Would it be possible to add a "Compilation mapping" field in the preferences?  I'd prefer adding a little TAGZ in foobar rather than adding metadata to my compilations just for foo_dop.

Well, there's done and screwed it up - I thought syncing to iPod meant that the songs whose filenames I'd just corrected would be uploaded - forgetting that I'd just done a quicksearch and there were only two songs on the list right then. There's 27GB of music gone. Any chance the deleted files might still be alive somewhere on my system?

Heh, cool. Just got my classic last night too...

I'm not sure if this is the right place for my request however it does involve the iPod DB but I may also contact Florian to see what he says on the request.

Would it be possible to submit music played on the iPod to Last.FM by using foo_dop?

Edit: Eh looks like its already in your request list. Nevermind.

In Foobar2000, can a component (such as foo_dop) pass data to another component (such as foo_audioscrobber)?

I didn't expect direct support since theres foo_audioscrobber and such would be adding unrelated feature bloat and\or would be reinventing the wheel.

I am hoping for a joint effort between foo_pod and foo_audioscrobber.
Since foo_dop can already read the iTunesDB and foo_audioscrobber can access Last.FM, wouldn't it be possible to pass data to foo_audioscrobber ("The Proper Way"TM)

or even store it in its cache for submission (which is quite hack-ish)?

Also in the requests is the ability to sync playcounts and rating between the iPod and Foobar2000 which is somewhat similar to the last.fm request.

I can say definitely there won't be any direct last.fm support from my side. Not sure how indirect support would work though..