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Reply #3100 –
You can still try the last two items.

If you have another computer available can you also try on that, if not try connecting it to a different USB controller (i.e. try different ports) and if they are on the motherboard update to the latest BIOS.
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Reply #3101 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: mobyduck on
I just upgraded to 0.6.8.2 and now on foobar startup I receive the following message:
Looks like you don't have Apple Application Support installed, recent versions removed the Quicktime fallback. Try (re)installing Apple Application Support.
Thanks for the reply. I followed your suggestion and now when I connect my iPhone I get
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Error querying UDID.
Should I install Apple Mobile Device Support too?

Regards.

Alessandro

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Reply #3102 –
Yes, update AMDS too.
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Reply #3104 –
Dear musicmusic,
I now have a jailbroken iPhone 4. Anything I can possibly do to help cracking this damn iTunes database signing palaver?

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Reply #3105 –
Hi,
My hope was that decrementing the DBVersion in /System/Library/Lockdown/Checkpoint.xml to 4 would work but I think they have closed that loophole. You are welcome to try though, after making the change restart the device and check what is reported in the foobar2000 console.
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Reply #3106 –
Please, I need a lil' bit of help. This is driving me mad.

I have a Second Gen iPod Touch with iOS 4, and it works great. I would like to make sure that every track with the album name "[non-album tracks]" should have the same album artist, ie "Various Artists" so that I can easily find them under the same album.

How do I make it work through tag remappings and the such?

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Reply #3107 –
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$if($strcmp(%album%,'['non-album tracks']'),Various Artists)

Put that in the album artist field of iPod Manager's options.

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Reply #3109 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Hi,
My hope was that decrementing the DBVersion in /System/Library/Lockdown/Checkpoint.xml to 4 would work but I think they have closed that loophole. You are welcome to try though, after making the change restart the device and check what is reported in the foobar2000 console.


Um... that worked perfectly! I'm in raptures right now 
There are some warnings in the console:
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iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: duplicate column name: is_itunes_u
iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: no such function: iPhoneSortKey
iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: no such function: iPhoneSortKey
iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: no such function: iPhoneSortKey
iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: no such function: iPhoneSortKey
iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: no such function: iPhoneSortKey
iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: no such function: iPhoneSortKey
iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: no such function: iPhoneSortKey
iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: no such function: iPhoneSortKey
iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: no such function: iPhoneSortKey
iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: no such function: iPhoneSortKey
iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: no such function: iPhoneSortKey
iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: no such function: iPhoneSortKey
iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: no such function: iPhoneSortSection
iPod manager: Generate SQLite database completed in 0.2412306 s
 

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Reply #3110 –
So, I realize I'm hardly contributing to the discussion, but something's been niggling at me for a while - is there any way to rename an iPod?  I've noticed that when recovering tracks, among other operations, the iPod is named after your Windows username, and this is not particularly ideal, though it's no more than an inconvenience.

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Reply #3111 –
Quote from: frogworth on
Um... that worked perfectly! I'm in raptures right now 
OK  It may or may not also work with an iPad, but it looks like that has a high-res JPEG artwork format which I would need to add support for anyway.

I do also have an ugly solution for non-jailbroken devices (better than nothing I think), but can someone with an iPhone 4 or iPad (that hasn't touched DBVersion) send me a backup of their iTunesCDB and also their UDID?

Quote from: frogworth on
There are some warnings in the console:
Update to latest iPod manager and those will go away (bar the is_itunes_u one).

Quote from: Soviet Commissar on
is there any way to rename an iPod?
No  You can do it with iTunes, though.
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Reply #3112 –
Im trying to get a working parameter set for the Helix mp3 encoder in the iPod manager. But I'm failing at it.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

The version of the Helix encoder I use can be found here.
Im using the top compile but I don't think that it matters which you use.

I want to use something like this in the parameter field but I keep getting errors:
-V100 -X2 -SBT450 -TX0 -HF2 - %d
I also tried the simpler:
-V100 - %d and - %d -V100

The suggested parameters for the lame encoder work fine but I would like to use Helix on this system.
Am I doing something wrong?

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Reply #3113 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: frogworth on
Um... that worked perfectly! I'm in raptures right now 
OK  It may or may not also work with an iPad, but it looks like that has a high-res JPEG artwork format which I would need to add support for anyway.


By the way, there is an artwork issue: all the thumbnails that the iPod app now shows next to each album in, say, an Artist listing page, are out of whack. It pushed diagonally, as if each horizontal line is shifted left by a pixel or something.
Also, given the Retina display on the iPhone 4, there may be a higher-res artwork format that could work for it too?

Anyway, it looks lovely regardless, and works absolutely fine as far as I can see.

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Reply #3114 –
Hi,
It does have higher-res formats but still stored as uncompressed RGB555 rather than JPEG. Anyway the problem looks to be row byte alignment (it is 16-byte here), I'll put out a new build to fix it.

Thanks for the report.
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Reply #3115 –
Quote from: Scidd0w on
Im trying to get a working parameter set for the Helix mp3 encoder in the iPod manager. But I'm failing at it.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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I still cant get it to work with the iPod manager.
When using the below parameters in the foobar2000 converter everything works fine.
- %d -V120 -X2 -SBT450 -TX0 -HF2
See the console output below:
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CLI encoder: C:\Program Files (x86)\foobar2000\utils\Helix\hmp3enc.exe
Destination file: Y:\Music\Homemade\even\01 - Arcade Fire - The Suburbs.mp3
Encoder stream format: 44100Hz / 2ch / 16bps
Command line: "C:\Program Files (x86)\foobar2000\utils\Helix\hmp3enc.exe" - "01 - Arcade Fire - The Suburbs.mp3" -V90 -X2 -SBT450 -TX0 -HF2
Working folder: Y:\Music\Homemade\even\
Encoder process still running, waiting...
Encoder process terminated cleanly.
Track converted successfully.
Total encoding time: 0:22.433, 14.05x realtime

But when I use the same parameters in the iPod manager it ends after some time (it seems to be encoding something) with the following error:
Failed to add file to iPod: Conversion failed - Unexpected process exit code 00002F2Ah

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Reply #3116 –
For whatever reason it returns the number of frames as the process exit code; iPod manager will only accept 0 as the exit code and hence assumes it failed. Besides, you will lose gapless playback support using it, I would just stick to LAME or Nero AAC.
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Reply #3117 –
Hi musicmusic,
I have a question about playlists. I love being able to create playlists out of both tracks on the iPod (iPhone) and tracks from my library, and send them to the device.

However, I've found sometimes I need to add tracks to a playlist, and it doesn't appear that I can actually edit a playlist.
But what I've found is that even if I delete the playlist from the iPhone first, when I re-send a playlist of the same name, it gets a number added to its name.

I would prefer to be able to simply replace the playlist on the device, if there's one of the same name. That way I could re-create it either from files on the iPod, files in my library, or a combination of both, and get the new-improved version.
This has come about now of course because of your (beta) fix to the cover art thumbnails. If I want to fix the cover art for the stuff currently on the iPod, I have to re-upload. But a lot of the music on the iPod is in current playlists, and I'm guess I'll ruin those playlists by remove and re-adding tracks that are in the playlists.

Am I missing something? Is this actually currently possible?

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Reply #3118 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Besides, you will lose gapless playback support using it, I would just stick to LAME or Nero AAC.
Losing gapless playback is a bit of an issue yeah. I wanted to try this because my media center has a slow Intel Atom N330 processor and I wanted to speed up the conversion process. Most of my collection is FLAC.

I'm going to try Nero AAC now and see if its faster than LAME on the atom proc.

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Reply #3119 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
can someone with an iPhone 4 [...] send me a backup of their iTunesCDB and also their UDID?

Tell me how, and I'll do it right away
Can't wait for a HD-AAC encoder :P

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Reply #3120 –
Quote from: frogworth on
Hi,
I guess you are deleting the playlist using the device - that isn't supported at the moment. You can remove them using 'Manage contents' though.

Ideally you would use Sync to manage your playlists (and tracks), I could add an option in the Send Playlists dialog to replace any playlists with the same name. It doesn't really help though with the problem of effectively losing your playlist contents after removing the tracks though, that is why ideally I would create them from tracks on your computer instead.

Quote from: odyssey on
Quote from: musicmusic on
can someone with an iPhone 4 [...] send me a backup of their iTunesCDB and also their UDID?

Tell me how, and I'll do it right away
You can backup the iTunesCDB file from File/iPod/File system explorer, then browse to iTunes_Control\iTunes, for the UDID you can just send the Device Instance Path from the console.

Thanks
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Reply #3121 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Hi,
I guess you are deleting the playlist using the device - that isn't supported at the moment. You can remove them using 'Manage contents' though.

Ideally you would use Sync to manage your playlists (and tracks), I could add an option in the Send Playlists dialog to replace any playlists with the same name. It doesn't really help though with the problem of effectively losing your playlist contents after removing the tracks though, that is why ideally I would create them from tracks on your computer instead.


Actually, I'm deleting them using "Manage contents".
I can delete all the tracks and then re-upload by syncing playlists from the computer.

So I guess the weird thing was the fact that the new playlist was given an incremented name even though I had deleted it.
I'll try it again soon and see whether I can make it happen again. That said, I wouldn't mind the option to replace playlists with the same name.

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Reply #3122 –
I see in the 0.6.8.3 changelog "Improved artwork compatibility with recent/future devices".  Which devices are affected, what are the improvements, and is it worth re-running the artwork scan in the event my device (iPod Classic 6G 2008, running 2.0.1) is affected?

I put way too much time into my music hobby/addiction...

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Reply #3123 –
Quote from: Soviet Commissar on
I see in the 0.6.8.3 changelog "Improved artwork compatibility with recent/future devices".  Which devices are affected, what are the improvements, and is it worth re-running the artwork scan in the event my device (iPod Classic 6G 2008, running 2.0.1) is affected?

I suspect it's higher resolution artwork for e.g. the iPhone4's retina-display. The text doesn't really imply that older devices should have "improved artwork compatibility"
Can't wait for a HD-AAC encoder :P

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Reply #3124 –
Quote from: odyssey on
Quote from: Soviet Commissar on
I see in the 0.6.8.3 changelog "Improved artwork compatibility with recent/future devices".  Which devices are affected, what are the improvements, and is it worth re-running the artwork scan in the event my device (iPod Classic 6G 2008, running 2.0.1) is affected?

I suspect it's higher resolution artwork for e.g. the iPhone4's retina-display. The text doesn't really imply that older devices should have "improved artwork compatibility"

That's not what I meant, either, haha; I wasn't sure if he'd somehow cleaned up how the artwork DB is written in general (i.e. applying to such devices as the wheel iPods in addition to touch screens), or if it meant only for very recent devices like the new iPhone that would have a different method of storing art.