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Reply #2325 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Well foo_dop only notifies foo_playcount of new plays so it's not possible for foo_dop to cause anything to be lost. If your existing plays are in tags and not the playback statistics database I think something similar might happen (?)


thanks for pointing me in the right direction musicmusic. it looks like the issue that i was having had to do with the tag's not being in sync with the stats in f2k's db. after fixing the stats that were reset, I did an "Import statistics from file tags" for my whole library. this was back on sep 3rd, ive had close to a thousand plays on the ipod since then, and the stats seem to be playing nicely now

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Reply #2326 –
iPhone / iPod touch OS 3.1 may not be compatible with the component, could everyone keep this in mind for the moment. If you want to help test then that's a different story...

Quote from: gob on
thanks for pointing me in the right direction musicmusic.
No probs
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Reply #2327 –
Here is what seems like a pretty large bug and a bit of a mystery.

I have a car stereo that interfaces with my iphone. The deck will display the title, artist and album of the current song. I noticed recently that metadata for unrelated songs would sometimes be shown up on the display incorrectly. It happened only once last week, and I removed the offending song, but today it was wrong for every single song I played. What's strange is that if I look at the song that's currently playing using my iphone (while connected to the deck) and not the deck it displays the name correctly.

The reason I believe this is a large problem is because I noticed that one of the mis-displayed songs was playing really quietly (it normally has a positive replaygain), this made me think that the soundcheck metadata from the other song was also being used in addition to title, artist, album.

I might update the metadata of all my files manually and see if that helps. I`ll make a backup of my messed up database files first, for your sake.
 

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Reply #2329 –
Quote from: vassie on
Quote from: musicmusic on
iPhone / iPod touch OS 3.1 may not be compatible with the component, could everyone keep this in mind for the moment. If you want to help test then that's a different story...

Quote from: gob on
thanks for pointing me in the right direction musicmusic.
No probs


Any news? Am scared to update

Ben


I've just run the updates for iTunes on my HP laptop running Windows XP and the 3.1.1 device firmware on my iPod Touch. I've also got the latest foo_dop.

The good news is...it seems to work just fine!
Foobar crashed after I removed an album from the Touch, but when I restarted the album had definitely been deleted.  I tried copying the album back to the Touch and it worked fine - no crash, album is there and plays.  Tried the same routine again - remove album then put it back on and it worked again, only this time there was no Foobar crash.
The library update seems to take a very long time (anything up to a minute) whenever you add or remove a file, but otherwise I can't see any difference.

-StuPC

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Reply #2330 –
Quote from: StuPC on
Quote from: vassie on
Quote from: musicmusic on
iPhone / iPod touch OS 3.1 may not be compatible with the component, could everyone keep this in mind for the moment. If you want to help test then that's a different story...

Quote from: gob on
thanks for pointing me in the right direction musicmusic.
No probs


Any news? Am scared to update

Ben


I've just run the updates for iTunes on my HP laptop running Windows XP and the 3.1.1 device firmware on my iPod Touch. I've also got the latest foo_dop.

The good news is...it seems to work just fine!
Foobar crashed after I removed an album from the Touch, but when I restarted the album had definitely been deleted.  I tried copying the album back to the Touch and it worked fine - no crash, album is there and plays.  Tried the same routine again - remove album then put it back on and it worked again, only this time there was no Foobar crash.
The library update seems to take a very long time (anything up to a minute) whenever you add or remove a file, but otherwise I can't see any difference.

-StuPC


Sweet, time to upgrade

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Reply #2331 –
foo_dop worked fine for me adding and removing tracks from my iPhone first gen running 3.1

Can it be a firmware upgrade from Apple without a foo_dop problem?!?!  Seems so!

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Reply #2332 –
Quote from: StuPC on
The library update seems to take a very long time (anything up to a minute) whenever you add or remove a file, but otherwise I can't see any difference.
Hi,
Is this some screen that turns up on the device? I know some people mentioned this screen recently, but has everyone been getting this screen with OS 3.0 or 3.1 which I don't believe is supposed to be there?

Quote from: RainDawg on
foo_dop worked fine for me adding and removing tracks from my iPhone first gen running 3.1

Can it be a firmware upgrade from Apple without a foo_dop problem?!?!  Seems so!
Phew, that's good news  It will definitely not work on the iPod touch 3G yet though, should just be a simple change I should have made already.
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Reply #2333 –
Actually, I take that back....first attempt looked good, but I just noticed a couple of odd things:

1) For about 50% of the album, after the first iTunes sync, the small album art thumbnail is now blank.  The cover flow view and now playing view show it correctly, but the tiny one when browsing through the album selection is blank on a (seemingly) random handful of albums.

2) I just had an issue where, after sending an album, the device reports "no music available" until a re-sync is done with iTunes, at which point everything comes back.  This seems like a duplicate of what happened when 3.0 originally came out.

3) The "updating library" screen shows for about a minute when foo_dop has modified the database (only sometimes).

I will do a little more testing to see under what conditions these issues repeat

** Here's a screen-cap of the updating screen, since you asked a little while back.  It shows the first time you run the iPod app after foo_dop has modified the database.

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Reply #2334 –
One additional issue that I noticed is that foo_dop doesn't play nicely with the new iTunesU feature....after altering the database in any way with the component, all tracks that were previously listed under the iTunesU no longer appear in that playlist on the device.  They are still there, and they appear when browsing all tracks, but somehow dop is grouping them all together into the main list instead of them showing separately.

I did have to clear all music that was on the device prior to the upgrade to get the album arts to come back, but it seems like aside from the iTunesU issue and the fact that the "updating library" screen shows that everything does work nicely.

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Reply #2335 –
Quote from: Dr_Colossus on
Here is what seems like a pretty large bug and a bit of a mystery.

I have a car stereo that interfaces with my iphone. The deck will display the title, artist and album of the current song. I noticed recently that metadata for unrelated songs would sometimes be shown up on the display incorrectly. It happened only once last week, and I removed the offending song, but today it was wrong for every single song I played. What's strange is that if I look at the song that's currently playing using my iphone (while connected to the deck) and not the deck it displays the name correctly.

The reason I believe this is a large problem is because I noticed that one of the mis-displayed songs was playing really quietly (it normally has a positive replaygain), this made me think that the soundcheck metadata from the other song was also being used in addition to title, artist, album.

I might update the metadata of all my files manually and see if that helps. I`ll make a backup of my messed up database files first, for your sake.


On second thought this seems like a iPhone problem and it seemed like it only happens with smart playlists. Updated to 3.1 I may not see this problem again.

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Reply #2336 –
Quote from: RainDawg on
One additional issue that I noticed is that foo_dop doesn't play nicely with the new iTunesU feature....after altering the database in any way with the component, all tracks that were previously listed under the iTunesU no longer appear in that playlist on the device.  They are still there, and they appear when browsing all tracks, but somehow dop is grouping them all together into the main list instead of them showing separately.

I did have to clear all music that was on the device prior to the upgrade to get the album arts to come back, but it seems like aside from the iTunesU issue and the fact that the "updating library" screen shows that everything does work nicely.
Seems there are some database changes. Can you send me a backup of the iTunes_Control\iTunes folder with a database written by iTunes? If it's jailbroken, also a backup of the System\Library\Lockdown folder... Thanks
.

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Reply #2337 –
Hi there!

First of all, many thanks for the component! Foo_dop is easily the most useful add-on for me (as are many here, I loathe iTunes).

Recently I've upgraded my iPod touch to the 3.0. I downloaded the latest version of foo_dop and updated the libraries on my home machine and sending music to iPod worked perfectly. However, I forgot to update MobileDevice.dll on my work machine. I then tried to upload some music. The operation was successful but the songs didn't show up on the device. Although they're clearly there (judging by the reduced space) I can't listen to them or delete them using either foobar or iTunes. I was thinking of using WinSCP to delete them but I'm not sure what to delete. Another option would be restoring but I'd like to try something not as drastic before.

I'm using iTunes 8.2.1.6, foobar 0.9.6.8, foo_dop 0.6.5.4, MobileDevice.dll 8.2.238.0.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Reply #2338 –
Did you not update foo_dop on your work machine as well?

Anyway, Recover orphaned tracks is supposed to be for situations like this, give it a try (with latest foo_dop)..
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Reply #2339 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Did you not update foo_dop on your work machine as well?

Anyway, Recover orphaned tracks is supposed to be for situations like this, give it a try (with latest foo_dop)..


Never thought it would be as easy as that. Thanks a bunch, musicmusic!

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Reply #2340 –
Hey there,

I updated iTunes (9.0) & the iPhone OS (3.1) on my 3G.

I also updated foo_dop (0.6.5.4) on foobar (0.9.6.9).

The problem that I have is, that there is no ipod found in foobar. I can't read or write any tracks from an on my iPhone. I have also downloaded the latest version of mobiledevicesign.dll from the developers site.

Does anybody of you had the problem as well or can tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thx so far.

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Reply #2341 –
I've recently upgraded my iPod touch 2G to 3.1 (previously 3.0 JB).

There are two bugs when copying "Various Artists" compilations to the iPod.
Example: Goa Gil - Spiritual Trance Vol. 2

When I send that album to my iPod, this is what I get:

First bug is obvious - The album is listed more than once. Actually, it's listed 11 times, one for each artist. Furthermore, when selecting any of them, the whole album tracklist is displayed:

The second one is that the album artist is not displayed.
Using iTunes 9 to send to my iPod I get the expected result:


I then proceeded to remove the album using the right click menu iPod > Remove from iPod. This is what happens:


Hope this helps.

I am very grateful for this awesome plugin, but I am forced to use shiTunes until all issues are fixed.

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Reply #2342 –
Quote from: floesn on
Hey there,

I updated iTunes (9.0) & the iPhone OS (3.1) on my 3G.

I also updated foo_dop (0.6.5.4) on foobar (0.9.6.9).

The problem that I have is, that there is no ipod found in foobar.[...]
Hi,
Check the FAQ question about detection issues - it's probably the usual issue that sometimes happens sometimes when upgrading iTunes.

Quote from: mrm on
I've recently upgraded my iPod touch 2G to 3.1 (previously 3.0 JB).
Hi,
I would really like a backup of the iTunes_Control\iTunes folder with a database written by iTunes on 3.1 software. You should be able to use iPhoneBrowser AFAIK.

If you want to make two backups (one with the above issue, and one without) then I can see what's causing that as well. You can e-mail them to the address on my site.
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Reply #2343 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Hi,
I would really like a backup of the iTunes_Control\iTunes folder with a database written by iTunes on 3.1 software. You should be able to use iPhoneBrowser AFAIK.

If you want to make two backups (one with the above issue, and one without) then I can see what's causing that as well. You can e-mail them to the address on my site.

Sorry, can't do that. It appears iPhoneBrowser crashes the instant I start it. I've only used it a couple of times before - when I was on 3.0 - and it worked at the time.

EDIT: looks like it's iTunes 9 related. I'll try iPhone Explorer (never used it before)

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Reply #2344 –
Hmm... I think I need that file browser in foo_dop sooner rather than later
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Reply #2345 –
See PM.

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Reply #2346 –
i just started using foo_dop today for my ipod classic. it's great, but i have one complaint, though i don't know if you can do anything about it.

it used to be that the only way to edit the Sort Artist, Sort Album, etc. tags was in itunes. however, i just noticed that they now store those fields in the tags along with artist, title, album, etc. and i can edit those tags via foobar. the only problem is, when i add songs to my ipod via foo_dop, the ipod doesn't recognize the Sort Artist and Sort Album tags (those are the only two i use). however, if i add the songs to itunes first, it recognizes my custom sorting tags, which then work on the ipod (after syncing).

would it be possible to fix this or is the problem on apple's end?


other than this one hiccup, this is an excellent component and i thank you for your work




btw: i'm using foo_dop 0654, itunes 9, and foobar 0969

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Reply #2347 –
sorry, i just looked at the FAQ more closely and i see that custom sorting is listed as a request. my bad.

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Reply #2348 –
Doesn't look like foo_dop works w/ the new ipod nanos at all. Not completely surprising, just wanted confirmation and whether any sort of feedback or information may be needed to pull this off? Let me know, thanks.

http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/

"Model: Unknown. Key (16,34,72R)"


Update: Grabbed newest foo_dop, zlib, and itunes 9, it now syncs however I can't seem to get any album art to register at all. Will keep poking around.

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Reply #2349 –
Hi there,

Can you hold Shift, click File/iPod/Raw property list and send me the output please?
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