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Reply #1500 –
Quote from: pinoniceusagi on
Hello.

I was wondering about something. Right now, when I use the "iPod -> Load Library" option, all of my iPod's contents are loaded into one playlist -- one huge list with all albums on my iPod. I think it's very hard to browse through this (I usually use the library album list for music not on my iPod). Is it possible to load the iPod's contents into the album list? I mean, instead of having everything appear on one huge playlist?

What I'm looking for is to browse the iPod just like I browse my local music library. Can it be done?
The best you can do is add your iPod to the list of media library directories. Change the drive letter of your iPod in Windows to something near the end of the alphabet so it stays the same.

If you have an iPod touch or iPhone, this isn't possible as you cannot add the path into the media library.

Quote from: Fractal_Mortality on
A friend of mine recently got an ipod 5g 80gb and transfer all of his music using foo_dop. Apparently, though, and when he goes to music > artists, it says "no artists" on the right box thing. But yet if he goes to music > albums, every album he put on is there.

Any ideas?
Has he checked if they have ARTIST fields in their properties in foobar2000 ?
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Reply #1501 –
I can't make my ipod classic scrobble the songs to last.fm.
Can someone told me what I have to do exactly?

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Reply #1502 –
Quote from: Pri3st on
I can't make my ipod classic scrobble the songs to last.fm.
Can someone told me what I have to do exactly?


1. Make sure you have the Audioscrobbler plugin http://mp3tag.de/en/fb2k.html
2. Enable the plugin through the tools menu in preferences, Input your username and password, and check the box "Import Played Tracks from Portable Devices."
3. Every time you want to scrobble tracks, use the function "Rewrite Database" from the ipod menu. Whenever your next song scrobbles, so should those you've played on your ipod.

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Reply #1503 –
Quote from: Fractal_Mortality on
Quote from: Pri3st on

I can't make my ipod classic scrobble the songs to last.fm.
Can someone told me what I have to do exactly?


1. Make sure you have the Audioscrobbler plugin http://mp3tag.de/en/fb2k.html
2. Enable the plugin through the tools menu in preferences, Input your username and password, and check the box "Import Played Tracks from Portable Devices."
3. Every time you want to scrobble tracks, use the function "Rewrite Database" from the ipod menu. Whenever your next song scrobbles, so should those you've played on your ipod.


Thanks!

Another question: How it knows what I have played on my ipod and what had scrobble already?

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Reply #1504 –
Quote from: Pri3st on
Quote from: Fractal_Mortality on

Quote from: Pri3st on

I can't make my ipod classic scrobble the songs to last.fm.
Can someone told me what I have to do exactly?


1. Make sure you have the Audioscrobbler plugin http://mp3tag.de/en/fb2k.html
2. Enable the plugin through the tools menu in preferences, Input your username and password, and check the box "Import Played Tracks from Portable Devices."
3. Every time you want to scrobble tracks, use the function "Rewrite Database" from the ipod menu. Whenever your next song scrobbles, so should those you've played on your ipod.


Thanks!

Another question: How it knows what I have played on my ipod and what had scrobble already?


Explain your question further.

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Reply #1505 –
Quote from: Fractal_Mortality on
Quote from: Pri3st on

Quote from: Fractal_Mortality on

Quote from: Pri3st on

I can't make my ipod classic scrobble the songs to last.fm.
Can someone told me what I have to do exactly?


1. Make sure you have the Audioscrobbler plugin http://mp3tag.de/en/fb2k.html
2. Enable the plugin through the tools menu in preferences, Input your username and password, and check the box "Import Played Tracks from Portable Devices."
3. Every time you want to scrobble tracks, use the function "Rewrite Database" from the ipod menu. Whenever your next song scrobbles, so should those you've played on your ipod.


Thanks!

Another question: How it knows what I have played on my ipod and what had scrobble already?


Explain your question further.


How the audioscrobbler plugin knows what I have played last and I haven't scrobble it before.
For example if I hear three songs, connect it and scrobble them, then listen another one and connect it. How it will know not to scrobble four songs?

PS: I hope, I am clear enough now

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Reply #1506 –
Because they have already been processed ?

Was all that quoting really necessary..? 
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Reply #1507 –
That was exactly my question. How it knows that it have been already processed? Does it save a db on my ipod or foobar directory with what has been processed? With isproggler that i was using before, I had to have a smart playlist in order for the scrobbling to work. And also another question, if i play one song repeated will scrobble it as many times as i have play it (cause with isproggler, this is not the case).

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Reply #1508 –
The iPod tells the component what has seen played since last 'sync'/etc.

The component notifies foo_audioscrobbler about every full play of the same track, but I do not know if it processes all of them, there was some kerfuffle about only having the most recent playback timestamp for each track.
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Reply #1509 –
Regarding the "read album art from files already on the iPod update": I'm not having success with it. After using Mp3tag to add cover art for many files on my iPod, I selected the files and ran "Update metadata on iPod" them (and all files as well) without success. I've tried that many times, and have tried "Load library" and "Rewrite database" too. I've confirmed with foobar2000 and Mp3tag that the album art is present in the files as well. (I can get one or two to you if necessary.) Any ideas?

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Reply #1510 –
I did try and it did work here.

Check if copying the file off, removing it, and sending it again works. Also please verify that you have something (anything) written under "Source script" in prefs, and "Addition use foobar2000 built-in artwork reader" is checked.

Also note that if there was already artwork for that song in the database it will not replace it. The "artwork" column in 'Manage content' can tell you if it has artwork for that song.
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Reply #1511 –
for the next build would it be possible:

when sending files to an iPod after clicking send files while processing the files could a list be produced showing the ones with too long filename before it sends the files as opposed to after.

As I understand there is nothing you can do about the filename limit? I tend to batch upload and come back later to a list of lots of files which didn't upload. I would find it easier to have this list before the upload and change their filenames before uploading. Hope you understand keep up the good work.

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Reply #1512 –
You are copying songs to the iPod manually and then adding them to the DB via send files? Otherwise there is no reason to worry about path lengths. If you are getting an error about too long path in that case you are feeding the component invalid paths which are pointing to the iPod drive. I will say it again and another million times: change the drive letter of your iPod to something like W to avoid drive letter conflicts.

Otherwise if you are doing the former, if you don't mind breaking Music Quiz 2 you can increase the limit a bit, I am sure there is some info in the wiki someplace. You should also just use foobar2000's file mover to generate accepted filenames.
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Reply #1513 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
You are copying songs to the iPod manually and then adding them to the DB via send files? Otherwise there is no reason to worry about path lengths. If you are getting an error about too long path in that case you are feeding the component invalid paths which are pointing to the iPod drive. I will say it again and another million times: change the drive letter of your iPod to something like W to avoid drive letter conflicts.

Otherwise if you are doing the former, if you don't mind breaking Music Quiz 2 you can increase the limit a bit, I am sure there is some info in the wiki someplace. You should also just use foobar2000's file mover to generate accepted filenames.


I was dumping my music folder onto the iPod drive and then sending the files to the iPod using foobar.

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Reply #1514 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
I did try and it did work here.

I managed to get it working. I'd been working with 0.6.2.6, which was said to be the version from which this feature was implemented, but once I updated to 0.6.2.7 (which I didn't before, since it's experimental), things work fine. Thanks much!

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Reply #1515 –
Quote from: 2Pacalypse on
I was dumping my music folder onto the iPod drive and then sending the files to the iPod using foobar.
OK then the second part of my post applies.

Quote from: J44xm on
I managed to get it working. I'd been working with 0.6.2.6, which was said to be the version from which this feature was implemented, but once I updated to 0.6.2.7 (which I didn't before, since it's experimental), things work fine. Thanks much!
OK, probably then I got confused about when I added it
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Reply #1516 –
hey musicmusic, how much progress has been done on reverse engineering the new 2.0 itunesdb hash ?

there's a wiki of one guy (maybe a few guys, or maybe its you!) that is working on the new hash too, maybe you can join forces and get it cracked faster.

the wiki is: http://bluwiki.com/go/Ipodhash

theres also a chatroom #ipodhash on freenode, and you might want to go to #gtkpod too, as the previous hash has been cracked by some guys from that room

if you need any help (like a test iTunesDB+FirewireGUID), please tell me!

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Reply #1517 –
I know these things
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Reply #1519 –
There is progress of course, but most of the work has really been done by one person (israr)  It seems like he is on the last major function, but I'm not sure, you may get some more info by asking on IRC.
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Reply #1520 –
Hi, it seems somehow difficult to "push" the played songs to Last.fm. Here is the report from console:

Audioscrobbler: Handshake successful.
comserver2: Registering class objects succeeded.
Startup time : 0:14.624073
Audioscrobbler: Importing played tracks from Zdenek
Audioscrobbler: Finished importing 128 tracks.
Audioscrobbler: Submitting 10 of 128 cached tracks...
Audioscrobbler: Could not connect to host

Well, I have no problems with internet connection and Last.fm seems to be working. What went wrong?
EDIT: I posted this question on audioscrobler plugin forum, so far not clear what makes troubles.

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Reply #1521 –
Hello

I need help again........
I have seperated my live albums from the official ones. I have an aditional tag field %bootleg% for that.
My live recordings are tagged with "Bootlegs" in that field, the other albums are tagged "official" in that field.
At the metadata tab at the preferences I have added the following into the Artist line : %Artist% %Bootleg%
Now the iPod is showing for example:

Jethro Tull Bootlegs
Jethro Tull Official

Question: Is it possible that the Field "Bootleg" is only shown when it is filled with the word "Bootlegs" so that it looks like this on the iPod :

Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull Bootlegs


Thanks very Much in advance.

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Reply #1522 –
Try this?
Code: [Select]
%artist% [%bootleg%]

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Reply #1524 –
Thank you very much

Alex