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Reply #3050 –
I guess it is tripping up on some I/O command then.. but surely it is some bug on the device's side.

Was it as soon as it started copying artwork, or in the middle of copying artwork?

Thanks
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Reply #3051 –
I tried quite hard but I could not make my 3rd gen iPod touch reboot during a sync.

Can those of you with the problem confirm your model and jailbreak status? Thanks.
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Reply #3052 –
It rebooted when Foobar2k appeared to have stalled performing an "Update artwork" operation. It was not reproducible when I made a second attempt. I have a 3G and did a recovery mode restore to iOS4 with no jailbreak.

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Reply #3053 –
OK, if it semi-reliably happens then the system log (as above) would be good (open it before you run the command). If that doesn't reveal anything then I'll make a build with some file I/O logging...
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Reply #3054 –
This is probably a very stupid question (and may well have been answered before), but I would be able to use this plugin to read my iPod library and hard-write ReplayGain to the files on the iPod without having to rewrite the library again, correct?

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Reply #3055 –
I just updated my iphone 3GS to iOS 4.0 and updated to 0.6.8, but I can't get it to work.  I tried to sync four playlists I have with many overlapping songs, but it wanted to add them all separately (the confirmation window said it would add 7500 songs when it should've been only 3500).  Then I tried simply sending one playlist.  It got about 800 songs in, then just stopped.  The status bar never updated beyond that point.  The iphone didn't crash - it said "Sync In Progress" the whole time.

Here's the system log from my session: System Log

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Reply #3056 –
Quote from: Zarggg on
This is probably a very stupid question (and may well have been answered before), but I would be able to use this plugin to read my iPod library and hard-write ReplayGain to the files on the iPod without having to rewrite the library again, correct?
Not sure what you mean, you can use 'Load library' and then ReplayGain scan the files or edit the RG values, yes, but to get the changes into the iPod's database you'll need to then use 'Update metadata'.

Quote from: Fireblade on
(the confirmation window said it would add 7500 songs when it should've been only 3500).
It's just an issue with the preview but thanks for reminding me, as long as they are really the same file they will only be copied once.

Quote from: Fireblade on
Then I tried simply sending one playlist.  It got about 800 songs in, then just stopped.  The status bar never updated beyond that point.  The iphone didn't crash - it said "Sync In Progress" the whole time.
What did you do then and how long did you wait? Were there any transcodes in the sync?
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Reply #3057 –
Is there an ETA on iPhone 4 compatibility?

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Reply #3058 –
I put up version 0.6.8.1 - I took my best guess at what might be causing the iOS 4 reboot-on-artwork-copying (on iPhone 3G/second gen iPod touch ?) and tried to avoid it.

Quote from: zim2411 on
Is there an ETA on iPhone 4 compatibility?
I expect (have not confirmed though) that it uses the newer database signing mechanism that is currently used on the iPad - if it does then I wouldn't expect anything soon...
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Reply #3059 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
I expect (have not confirmed though) that it uses the newer database signing mechanism that is currently used on the iPad - if it does then I wouldn't expect anything soon...


Ah okay, I guess I'll sync with iTunes and keep an eye on updates. Keep up the awesome work!

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Reply #3060 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
I put up version 0.6.8.1 - I took my best guess at what might be causing the iOS 4 reboot-on-artwork-copying (on iPhone 3G/second gen iPod touch ?) and tried to avoid it.

Quote from: zim2411 on
Is there an ETA on iPhone 4 compatibility?
I expect (have not confirmed though) that it uses the newer database signing mechanism that is currently used on the iPad - if it does then I wouldn't expect anything soon...


Yep, iPod second gen, MB model, ill test the new update later

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Reply #3061 –
Quote from: zim2411 on
Ah okay, I guess I'll sync with iTunes and keep an eye on updates. Keep up the awesome work!
If you have one can you send (PM) me the ouput from Shift + File/iPod/Raw properties, then I'll know for sure what database signature it is using. Thanks.

[edit] OK, thanks to the person who sent me theirs - and it is in fact using the newer signature type, so sadly there won't be any support for now.
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Reply #3062 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
What did you do then and how long did you wait? Were there any transcodes in the sync?


I just stopped it at the time.  There were no transcodes - it was all MP3 files.

I tried this again, this time using sync.  I left it on overnight, thinking maybe I had just canceled it too quickly.  It was syncing a total of 3285 files (no transcodes).  This morning, after 8 hours, it is still updating the gapless information for files (it's about halfway done).  It used to take about an hour to do this at most.  Any idea?

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Reply #3063 –
Not sure, possibly some USB communication issues - you could try connecting to a different USB controller, updating motherboard BIOS, turning iPhone off/on, ...

Actually scratch that, updating gapless data will only read from the source files if you are adding files and there are no transcodes. Have you checked task manager etc., maybe something is hogging the CPU or disk?
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Reply #3064 –
Hey!  I just recently bought a 32GB iPod touch and was having issues getting foo_dop to use the Album Artist tag as Artist and to get my compilation albums to show up on the touch that way.  The music and album art (folder.jpg files) were transferring fine.

iTunes 9.0.2.61
iPod Touch 4.0 firmware

I use Mp3Tag to tag all of my MP3 files and it turns out that it uses the BAND metadata tag for Album Artist.  I'm not sure how common this is, but it's recognized fine by XBMC as well.  I'm really just posting here in case someone else is having this problem.

In foobar2000, go to File --> Preferences, then down to Tools --> iPod Manager and change the following fields:

Artist
[%band%]

Album Artist
[%band%]

Title
[%track artist% - ][%title%]

Compilation
$if($stricmp($meta(band),Various Artists),1,%ipod_compilation%)

It could be that this is covered elsewhere in this thread, if so, I apologize!
 

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Reply #3065 –
Quick update.  I just realized that with the above, on compilations the Artist was showing up as "Various Artists", but the Title was just showing the song title.  This didn't work for me:

Title
[%track artist% - ][%title%]

But this does:

Title
[%artist% - ][%title%]

The only thing is, now when I listen to a normal (single artist) album,  I'll see for instance:

The Police
The Police - Spirits in the Material World
Ghost in the Machine

I noticed that the author of iPod manager allows scripts to be used in the metadata fields.  Is there a way to compose a script for Title to check for one of two outcomes:

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If Artist and Album Artist are different, show Title as
[%artist% - ][%title%]

or

If Artist and Album Artist are the same, show Title as
[%title%]
--

I'm not a programmer, so I'm sorry if my wording is confusing, but I have no idea if this is even possible.  If not, showing the artist's name twice (in the Artist field and as part of the Title field) isn't the end of the world, but it would be cool if it could avoided on non-compilations.  It also occurs to me (though I haven't checked yet) that the tracks might not scrobble correctly at Last.fm with the artist in the title field.

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Reply #3066 –
Quote from: Kevin Sartori on
If Artist and Album Artist are different, show Title as
[%artist% - ][%title%]

or

If Artist and Album Artist are the same, show Title as
[%title%]

$if($stricmp(%album artist%,%artist%),%title%,[%artist% - ]%title%)
np: 4'33"

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Reply #3067 –
Thanks, Leak!  I was going backwards in the thread to see if I could figure out a way to do this myself.  Slow day at work!

As I don't rip my music with iTunes, I don't have a %IPOD_COMPILATION% tag in my MP3 files, so I couldn't use any of the suggestions from earlier in the thread.  Looking at the examples, though, I figured out how to get a similar result by checking if the %BAND% tag was set to Various Artists:

$if($stricmp($meta(band),Various Artists),%artist% - %title%,%title%)

Your script is better, though, because this way tracks with additional guest artist(s) will show them in the Title field.

Thanks!  And sorry I polluted the thread with my junk!

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Reply #3068 –
Is there any way of updating ID-tags on my Ipod whithout recompressing (I have many flac-files on my PC) and retransfering after having changed id-tags on my PC?

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Reply #3069 –
bit of trouble syncing my ipod with foobar.

when I press synchronize it puts all the music on my ipod fine, and it all works, but it is not sorted into albums. all there is is artist then the songs are scattered in there sorted by track number, every song in all the artist's albums are in one spot...


maybe i explained that bad...
how do you sort items before they sync?













EDIT: here's a more clear explanation with a screenshot.

when i open file>ipod>manage contents it shows there is no data for albums.
however clearly i have data in the album field as shown by my library and the mp3tags on my secondary display

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Reply #3070 –
feature request:

i know in the ml_ipod winamp plugin (not the official one) it had the ability to create bookmarks for long files, an automatic chapter after x minutes.  do you think it would be possible to add this feature into this plugin as well?

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Reply #3071 –
I've released version 0.6.8.2 with the date released and playlist sorting changes previously mentioned.

Quote from: rekees on
Yep, iPod second gen, MB model, ill test the new update later
Is it alright now then?

Quote from: dag0 on
Is there any way of updating ID-tags on my Ipod whithout recompressing (I have many flac-files on my PC) and retransfering after having changed id-tags on my PC?
Basically, no. Why do your tags change so often?


Quote from: toxicrat2 on
You need to check the track properties in foobar2000 rather than Mp3tag.

Quote from: ctkatz on
i know in the ml_ipod winamp plugin (not the official one) it had the ability to create bookmarks for long files, an automatic chapter after x minutes.  do you think it would be possible to add this feature into this plugin as well?
Not at this time, sorry..
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Reply #3072 –
Thanks for the continued updates.  0.6.8.2 is working great with my 3GS running iOS4.

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Reply #3073 –
I still don't get any artwork since I upgrade to iOS 4.0.  The artwork shows up fine in Foobar, but not on the phone.  I tried deleting songs and re-adding them as well as loading up the library, selecting the song, and going to iPod->Update artwork.  Nothing seems to work.

Anyone else having this issue?

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Reply #3074 –
First check if there is a 'Yes' in the Artwork column in Manage contents for those tracks. If there isn't it would suggest some problem finding the artwork (i.e. incorrect settings).
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