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Reply #1550 –
I'd really appreciate an option to automatically delete doublettes on the iPod. Or, at least, an option to delete orphaned tracks instead of recovering them. My iPod often crashed during connection (no idea why, happens with iTunes also...) and thus the tracks tranfered before the crash are not added to the database. So far, I have to use "recover orphaned tracks", then load the ipod library into foobar and manually search for doublettes and delete them. But with more than 30gb of music files in the library that's a rather annoying thing to do...

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Reply #1551 –
It works fine for me to use this with the new iPod Classic 120gb... It took a little over 24h to add all my music though, and I thought it might take so long because I connected to the wrong USB port. So I stopped the syncing after all the music was transferred and the artwork was just beginning to transfer, to change usb port and continue after that... But when I tried syncing after that it didn't send any artwork...

Is there any way to make it send the artwork for files already on the ipod? I really din't want to remove everything and wait another 24+ hours for the transfers...

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Reply #1552 –
Quote from: Northpack on
I'd really appreciate an option to automatically delete doublettes on the iPod. Or, at least, an option to delete orphaned tracks instead of recovering them. My iPod often crashed during connection (no idea why, happens with iTunes also...) and thus the tracks tranfered before the crash are not added to the database. So far, I have to use "recover orphaned tracks", then load the ipod library into foobar and manually search for doublettes and delete them. But with more than 30gb of music files in the library that's a rather annoying thing to do...
The plan was to make it send all the recovered files to a new foobar2000 playlist, so you can review them and delete them if you wish


Quote from: sylla on
It works fine for me to use this with the new iPod Classic 120gb... It took a little over 24h to add all my music though, and I thought it might take so long because I connected to the wrong USB port. So I stopped the syncing after all the music was transferred and the artwork was just beginning to transfer, to change usb port and continue after that... But when I tried syncing after that it didn't send any artwork...

Is there any way to make it send the artwork for files already on the ipod? I really din't want to remove everything and wait another 24+ hours for the transfers...
Oh really? That's good news then  Does iTunes complain about the iPod needing a restore or anything? It also seems the Nano 4G should work OK also. I wouldn't expect anything out of Genius though.

So the question remains why they wish to protect the iPod touch and iPhone like this only. Maybe they are worried about people finding/exploiting any security vulnerabilities in their iTunesDB parser (even then still misguided).

To transfer the artwork, do load library, select everything, then right click and run 'Update metadata on iPod'. And then also the gapless scan command if you want gapless playback as that would also have been skipped.
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Reply #1553 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Oh really? That's good news then  Does iTunes complain about the iPod needing a restore or anything? It also seems the Nano 4G should work OK also. I wouldn't expect anything out of Genius though.

So the question remains why they wish to protect the iPod touch and iPhone like this only. Maybe they are worried about people finding/exploiting any security vulnerabilities in their iTunesDB parser (even then still misguided).

To transfer the artwork, do load library, select everything, then right click and run 'Update metadata on iPod'. And then also the gapless scan command if you want gapless playback as that would also have been skipped.


Yeah, everything seems to work perfect, apart from multivalue fields, but I don't think it ever worked though? I'm trying with %<tag>%...

I don't know about iTunes as I uninstalled it before I bought the ipod, and I don't feel I have any reason to use it as your plugin works perfect  If you want me to, I can install it again though to test how it works.

And thanks for the help, and of course for the plugin, great not having to use iTunes...

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Reply #1554 –
Yes multi-value fields are not supported by the iPod..

It's OK judging by the ml_ipod post, and the fact the iPod is happy, it should be OK.

One thing I would like is a copy of the iPod's XML property list. You can view this by holding Shift and clicking File, and then running iPod/Raw property list. PM me the result..

Also if anyone has either a classic 120GB or nano 4G and has iTunes installed, I would also like a copy of an iTunesDB written by iTunes (even better if you have Genius data on there) so I can have a look at the DB format.
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Reply #1555 –
Version 0.6.2.8 released, just a minor update:
  • Recover orphaned files creates a foobar2000 playlist with the recovered files
  • Send files will list skipped duplicates at the end of the process
  • Updated recognition of iPod models in Properties, should now correctly identify new shuffles/nano 4g/classic 120GB.
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Reply #1556 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Version 0.6.2.8 released, just a minor update:
  • Recover orphaned files creates a foobar2000 playlist with the recovered files
  • Send files will list skipped duplicates at the end of the process
  • Updated recognition of iPod models in Properties, should now correctly identify new shuffles/nano 4g/classic 120GB.


You're awesome!

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Reply #1557 –
Also just to be clear "Recover orphaned files" does still add the files to the database, so if you want to be rid of the recovered files use "Remove from iPod" in the first instance.
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Reply #1558 –
@musicmusic

I'm having problems opening the 7z file after downloading Version 0.6.2.8.  I'm getting a "Can not open file ...as archive" error.
Surf's Up!
"Columnated Ruins Domino"

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Reply #1559 –
I downloaded it and it did open OK here.

Check your download was OK:
MD5: 00d0f57da9d847c1859f38ee0b063be8 *foo_dop-0.6.2.8.7z
SHA1: 723ad5b04767396790333613ab125115d8fd7478 ?SHA1*foo_dop-0.6.2.8.7z
Size: 293,915 bytes

Clear your browser cache if not.

Otherwise I am using 7-Zip 4.60 beta if it makes a difference.
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Reply #1560 –
Hey musicmusic,

Would it be possible for you to create an iTunes-esque panel that allows is to manage our iPods with buttons and a "space-left bar"?

Currently I am using some depreciated components to achieve an effect that seems to work well so far, but it isn't perfect. This is what I have come up with:


The code I am using to make it is pretty clean, but it's a lot of code, and of course there are limitations and imperfections since there aren't really any components to measure iPod sizes lol.

Having some variables that can be used in Track Display panels to measure the size of the different directories would be awesome.
Song List: keikoniumboards.ke.funpic.org/files/songlist.html

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Reply #1562 –
I'm not quite sure what you're suggesting, but those are beautiful icons.

Quote from: Keikonium on
Hey musicmusic,

Would it be possible for you to create an iTunes-esque panel that allows is to manage our iPods with buttons and a "space-left bar"?

Currently I am using some depreciated components to achieve an effect that seems to work well so far, but it isn't perfect. This is what I have come up with:


The code I am using to make it is pretty clean, but it's a lot of code, and of course there are limitations and imperfections since there aren't really any components to measure iPod sizes lol.

Having some variables that can be used in Track Display panels to measure the size of the different directories would be awesome.

[seemingly abandonware] iPod manager

Reply #1563 –
Thank you, but it's just the product of me taking some iPod icons from deviant art and some vista beta icons and mashing them together lol.
Song List: keikoniumboards.ke.funpic.org/files/songlist.html

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Reply #1564 –
I'm having some difficulties with my 6th Gen classic 80gb badger. I have all of my music stored on my HD in FLAC and use your plugin to send them to the IPOD (converting to vbr mp3). For some reason, on one occasion when I added a new album it managed to lose all of my other music. Fortunately I didn't have much on at the time, so it's wasn't much of a problem.

Yesterday I synched three album that I'd changed a couple of tags on. Naturally that's synching the FLAC on the computer with mp3 on the IPOD. When I then checked my music I'd lost all my albums, photos and audiobooks save the three new albums... When I went to 'recover orphaned tracks' it managed to find another ten albums or parts thereof. I now have 80gb of FLAC to convert/transfer again.

Any idea how to stop this from happening again? Also, why doensn't the FLAC compilation tag convert to the iTunes one? It means that once I've finished converting all of the tracks in foobar, I have to load up iTunes in order to set the albums as compilations (to stop them coming up as individual items in the various menus)...

Ben

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Reply #1565 –
I'm having trouble with my 4G Nano. The music transfers fine and I can see/play it from foobar but I can't see anything when using the iPod. The firmware is version 1.0.2. I've tried rewriting the database and recover orphaned tracks. I've also tried version 0.6.2.6 and 0.6.2.8. Any ideas?

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Reply #1566 –
Quote from: Bouchehog on
I'm having some difficulties with my 6th Gen classic 80gb badger. I have all of my music stored on my HD in FLAC and use your plugin to send them to the IPOD (converting to vbr mp3). For some reason, on one occasion when I added a new album it managed to lose all of my other music. Fortunately I didn't have much on at the time, so it's wasn't much of a problem.

Yesterday I synched three album that I'd changed a couple of tags on. Naturally that's synching the FLAC on the computer with mp3 on the IPOD. When I then checked my music I'd lost all my albums, photos and audiobooks save the three new albums... When I went to 'recover orphaned tracks' it managed to find another ten albums or parts thereof. I now have 80gb of FLAC to convert/transfer again.

Any idea how to stop this from happening again? Also, why doensn't the FLAC compilation tag convert to the iTunes one? It means that once I've finished converting all of the tracks in foobar, I have to load up iTunes in order to set the albums as compilations (to stop them coming up as individual items in the various menus)...
When you sync something, the component removes everything that you are not syncing with. Normally a preview will be displayed and tell you what will be removed. However the component doesn't touch photos on the iPod. Did you set iTunes on manual sync mode?

If the compilation field is displayed in foobar2000 you can use it in the compilation mapping in preferences.

Quote from: ZhuGeLiang on
I'm having trouble with my 4G Nano. The music transfers fine and I can see/play it from foobar but I can't see anything when using the iPod. The firmware is version 1.0.2. I've tried rewriting the database and recover orphaned tracks. I've also tried version 0.6.2.6 and 0.6.2.8. Any ideas?
Does not sound good  Does iTunes recognise the music? Did you check firmware 1.0? Can you also do this:
Quote from: musicmusic on
One thing I would like is a copy of the iPod's XML property list. You can view this by holding Shift and clicking File, and then running iPod/Raw property list. PM me the result..

Thanks
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Reply #1567 –
Anyone know where I can download firmware 1.0.0 for the 4G nano?

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Reply #1568 –
I don't think it will make any difference, and we need to make it work with 1.0.2 anyway, but you can get it here:
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http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPod/SBML/osx/bundles/061-4637.20080909.vfH8i/iPod_31.1.0.ipsw


Some other things you can try:
-does opening and closing iTunes help?
-can you make a backup of a working iTunesDB written by iTunes and one by foo_dop?

[edit] Actually, I have an idea what the problem is. Writing the database in the newer format was not enabled for the nano 4G. I will have a new build to try shortly.
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Reply #1569 –
Please try new build 0.6.2.9  Assuming it works, also pay attention to artwork and check that's working OK.
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Reply #1570 –
Just tested 0.6.2.9. Sending files to my 4G nano works great now. I haven't tested album artwork yet. Thanks for the quick fix!

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Reply #1571 –
I'm not sure if it's foo_dop or my iPod playing up, but for a while now my iPod keeps giving me this error "The currently attached accessory is not supported by this iPod" - and nothing's even attached to it!
Could it be the newer version? I know v0.6.2.4 didn't give me any troubles, but swapping back to it still doesn't get rid of the error.

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Reply #1572 –
That would be your dock connector malfunctioning..

Try and clear any dirt that is lodged in there, otherwise it may be broken.
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Reply #1573 –
So, is there any chance of of touch 2.0 series support to be added soon? 'cause, this is the only thing keeping me from the update. 1.1.1.4 installer now seems to be completely abandoned by developers. There haven't been any new release or an update there for weeks now!

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Reply #1574 –
Unfortunately the protection mechanism doesn't seem to have been completely reverse engineered yet. I can't add any 2.x software support until that has been done.. not sure what the exact status of that is currently.

So it's a bit of a waiting game.. if you want to try and do something all I can see is publicising/finding people skilled in ARM or x86 reverse engineering and can deal with the obfuscation..
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