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Reply #1175 –
I just got my own iPod 80 GB Classic today (yay!) and I have had an issue converting a FLAC to an MP3. I get this error:

. Guess I need to keep itunes installed for future updates >.<
Song List: keikoniumboards.ke.funpic.org/files/songlist.html

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Reply #1176 –
What version of foo_dop are you using?
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Reply #1177 –
I just started using my own custom directory / folder structure. I followed the guide and, to my shock, it worked flawlessly!

I've simply got it set up as iPod>Library>Artist>Album, which works perfectly. I turned on my iPod and my jaw dropped when the first song played. After so many issues, I am so glad to see something that actually works. Thanks!

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Reply #1179 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
What version of foo_dop are you using?


Here are all the problems I am encountering using foo_dop:

1. Artwork doesn't seem to show up for ALL files in an album. Most of the time the artwork only shows up for the first track and all other songs have no art. The art is ALL stored in a separate folder with the file name of %album%.jpg across all files.

2. Even after updating my iPod (to version 1.1.1) some songs transfered over do NOT play . Every song I have transfered has been an mp3 file (no aac, no conversions on the way over or anything like that). The mp3's vary in bitrate, vbr/cbr, v0,v2 etc. I will try and find a common similrity in the non working ones. GOOD NEWS is that all my songs DO transfer, BAD NEWS is they can freeze my iPod, or just not play.

3. Sometimes artwork doesn't always transfer over even tho it does exist. Trying to transfer the same songs with the artwork again usually works tho. Maybe because there is SO many artwork files?

So my stats are:
foobar2000 v 0.9.5.2 Beta 2
foo_dop 0.5.8.7 TEST
Windows XP Home SP2
iPod 80 GB Classic (6G?)
Song List: keikoniumboards.ke.funpic.org/files/songlist.html

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Reply #1180 –
I'm having the same sort of problem as Keikonium with the album art, but the album art is missing from the first track on a album. the album art is stored at folder.jpg in the dir with the mp4's.

using:
Foobar 0.9.5.2
foo_dop 0.5.8.7 TEST
Ipod Classic 160



i'll try an earlier version and see if it fixes it.
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Reply #1181 –
1. It maybe related to some changes I made in 0.5.8.x, I'll check this later (I have iPod Classic also). You can try 0.5.7.0 for now (remove existing copies of albums before resending them though).

2. In the past this was caused by the files having multiple ID3v2 tags.

3. Maybe related to 1. somehow.
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Reply #1182 –
All the album art copied over fine using v0.5.7.0 TEST
Who are you and how did you get in here ?
I'm a locksmith, I'm a locksmith.

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Reply #1183 –
Question: I use an %added% tag on all of my music by assigning the date (ex. 20080416 for music that was added on April 16th 2008) to files that are added to my library. Would it be possible to use this tag in the remapping of say... Composer? And if so, would there be a way to reverse the order of the composer menu so that the higher numbers appear on top rather than the bottom (hence, the newest music appearing first)?

Thanks

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Reply #1184 –
Quote from: A_Man_Eating_Duck on
All the album art copied over fine using v0.5.7.0 TEST
Yes, what you saw makes sense. It should be fixed in 0.5.8.8. Possibly, this may affect the coverflow iPod touch/iPhone problem (new albums only). Also made the discussed change so that non-video MP4 files are renamed to M4A.

Quote from: Fractal_Mortality on
Question: I use an %added% tag on all of my music by assigning the date (ex. 20080416 for music that was added on April 16th 2008) to files that are added to my library. Would it be possible to use this tag in the remapping of say... Composer?
Yes, but it's not necessarily a good idea.  The iPod does store a date added field in it's database, which you can make a smart playlist from, but currently I am filling it with the date added to the iPod.

Quote from: Fractal_Mortality on
And if so, would there be a way to reverse the order of the composer menu so that the higher numbers appear on top rather than the bottom (hence, the newest music appearing first)?
This is not possible.
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Reply #1185 –
I am now using the newest 0.5.8.8 TEST and it seems to transfer art for all tracks, and MOST tracks play, but some still do not . Is there anyway I can "clean" my tracks so they don't have multiple ID3v2 tags if that is in fact the problem?
Song List: keikoniumboards.ke.funpic.org/files/songlist.html

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Reply #1186 –
Quote from: Keikonium on
I am now using the newest 0.5.8.8 TEST and it seems to transfer art for all tracks, and MOST tracks play, but some still do not . Is there anyway I can "clean" my tracks so they don't have multiple ID3v2 tags if that is in fact the problem?

I'm pretty sure MP3Tag is able to do it - you could try having it just rewrite the ID3v2 tags, or you could add APEv2 tags, then strip the ID3v2 tags, then add back ID3v2 tags and strip the APEv2 tags.
np: 4'33"

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Reply #1187 –
Quote from: Leak on
Quote from: Keikonium on

I am now using the newest 0.5.8.8 TEST and it seems to transfer art for all tracks, and MOST tracks play, but some still do not . Is there anyway I can "clean" my tracks so they don't have multiple ID3v2 tags if that is in fact the problem?

I'm pretty sure MP3Tag is able to do it - you could try having it just rewrite the ID3v2 tags, or you could add APEv2 tags, then strip the ID3v2 tags, then add back ID3v2 tags and strip the APEv2 tags.


I've set all my files up to have both ID3 and APE tags using foobar, so would that be a problem?
Song List: keikoniumboards.ke.funpic.org/files/songlist.html

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Reply #1188 –
First thing you need to do is check if the file does have multiple leading ID3v2 tags. The only realistic way I know of doing this is using a hex editor. You may find that iTunes rejects these files as well.
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Reply #1189 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
First thing you need to do is check if the file does have multiple leading ID3v2 tags. The only realistic way I know of doing this is using a hex editor. You may find that iTunes rejects these files as well.

Well, MP3Tag has a "Remove tag" feature that only will remove those kinds of tags (ID3v1, ID3v2, APEv2 etc.) that you choose in the options. Then selecting all files and running that command several times on them should also do the trick - if there's no tag to remove it simply won't touch the file...

And if he has all info in APEv2 tags anyway he can then just set MP3Tag to write ID3v2 tags, open the extended tab dialog (Alt-T if I'm not mistaken) for all files and hit OK to re-add an ID3v2 tag to all selected files.
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Reply #1190 –
Well I removed ALL tags from one of the files that don't work, and I put ONLY ID3v2 tags on the file that wasn't playing. I removed the faulty song from my iPod, and moved the newer one onto the iPod, still not playing. Musicmusic, do you want me to send the file to you for testing?
Song List: keikoniumboards.ke.funpic.org/files/songlist.html

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Reply #1191 –
Yes why not (PM me a sample file, use yousendit.com or the like if you don't have anywhere to host it..)
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Reply #1192 –
The track you sent me plays back fine on my iPod Classic. Have you double checked it's the only copy of it on your iPod?

If so, it seems a bit odd, I would try a restore in iTunes and maybe a chkdsk. You could also try sending it without artwork as well.
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Reply #1193 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
The track you sent me plays back fine on my iPod Classic. Have you double checked it's the only copy of it on your iPod?

If so, it seems a bit odd, I would try a restore in iTunes and maybe a chkdsk. You could also try sending it without artwork as well.


I restored my iPod in itunes, and moved JUST the track I sent you back on over to my iPod. Now it works fine  . Thanks so much for the help musicmusic .

One quick question about the sync ipod feature and it's intended behaviour:

- I move all my music over to the iPod with the "Send to iPod" option
- I listen to music on my iPod and on foobar back and fourth.
- I add new tracks to foobar, and adjust some ratings / playcounts
- I click the sync iPod button in foobar and it scans the files for changes. I've played maybe 10-20 files which added more to the playcount tags.
- Foobar then moves over my ENTIRE library to the iPod instead of just the files I have changed @_@.

Is this intended?
Song List: keikoniumboards.ke.funpic.org/files/songlist.html

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Reply #1194 –
No, it's only supposed to update the files that have been modified. You can check the last modified dates of the files in Windows Explorer to verify if they have been modified recently or not. You could also try running the sync command twice consecutively which may also reveal potential problems.
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Reply #1195 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: A_Man_Eating_Duck on

All the album art copied over fine using v0.5.7.0 TEST
Yes, what you saw makes sense. It should be fixed in 0.5.8.8. Possibly, this may affect the coverflow iPod touch/iPhone problem (new albums only). Also made the discussed change so that non-video MP4 files are renamed to M4A.

Quote from: Fractal_Mortality on
Question: I use an %added% tag on all of my music by assigning the date (ex. 20080416 for music that was added on April 16th 2008) to files that are added to my library. Would it be possible to use this tag in the remapping of say... Composer?
Yes, but it's not necessarily a good idea.  The iPod does store a date added field in it's database, which you can make a smart playlist from, but currently I am filling it with the date added to the iPod.


Just wondering... Why do you think that this isn't necessarily a good idea? For me, it'd be nice to have both a playlist of everything recently added, and a giant list of music in the order that I acquired it.

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Reply #1196 –
Nothing beyond the fact it's a composer field designed to store the composer rather than other stuff.

I personally can't see a menu listing loads of dates over years/whatever being actually useful. Better would be grouping them somewhat: Last week, 1-2 weeks ago, 2-4 weeks ago, ...

The iPod classic and Nano 3G actually support playlist folders, so you could potentially have a nice set-up with a folder with a bunch of smart playlists in it for this. However this is not quite possible at the moment:
* foo_dop doesn't support playlist folders at the moment. It's a bit difficult mixing that in with foobar2000's playlist management, but I think I could come up with something.
* foo_dop doesn't support any date added [to foobar2000 media library] field. The problems here are: Where do I get this from? foobar2000 doesn't track it automatically. Do I assume the user has set a metadata field for this? What is the name of the field? What format is it in? I guess I can workaround these problems as well, anyway.
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Reply #1197 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Nothing beyond the fact it's a composer field designed to store the composer rather than other stuff.

I personally can't see a menu listing loads of dates over years/whatever being actually useful. Better would be grouping them somewhat: Last week, 1-2 weeks ago, 2-4 weeks ago, ...

The iPod classic and Nano 3G actually support playlist folders, so you could potentially have a nice set-up with a folder with a bunch of smart playlists in it for this. However this is not quite possible at the moment:
* foo_dop doesn't support playlist folders at the moment. It's a bit difficult mixing that in with foobar2000's playlist management, but I think I could come up with something.
* foo_dop doesn't support any date added [to foobar2000 media library] field. The problems here are: Where do I get this from? foobar2000 doesn't track it automatically. Do I assume the user has set a metadata field for this? What is the name of the field? What format is it in? I guess I can workaround these problems as well, anyway.


Hm, yes, sounds like an interesting endeavor. Good luck.

I think I will go ahead and use the "added" field with artist in place of composer... It's a tag field I've never really utilized and likely never will.

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Reply #1198 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
* foo_dop doesn't support any date added [to foobar2000 media library] field. The problems here are: Where do I get this from? foobar2000 doesn't track it automatically.

Personally, I'd be quite happy with the date the file itself was created on, aka the windows file creation date.
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Reply #1199 –
Quick question regarding how long a "load library" should take with a full capacity 160 gb player (actually, I'm only at about 130 something gb used).

Tonight it took almost an hour and a half to load the library.. Foo_Dop hung on "Waiting for File Info Read To Complete" for most of the time.