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Reply #3375 –
Aren't iPods the only players that require the interface software to generate a special database for the player to see the files?

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Reply #3376 –
Quote from: kode54 on
Aren't iPods the only players that require the interface software to generate a special database for the player to see the files?

And zune I think (inc. WP7)

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Reply #3377 –
I have foobar2000 v1.1.5 and I would like to install the Ipod interface foo_dop....

Does it work with XP SP3?


.....and Ipod nano 8gb previous version....

Thanks

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Reply #3378 –
Quote from: katoblepa on
I have foobar2000 v1.1.5 and I would like to install the Ipod interface foo_dop....

Does it work with XP SP3?


.....and Ipod nano 8gb previous version....

Thanks


it should, but you may need some ipod services that come with itunes. at least that happened to me.

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Reply #3379 –
Quote from: corbintx on
Quote from: katoblepa on
I have foobar2000 v1.1.5 and I would like to install the Ipod interface foo_dop....

Does it work with XP SP3?


.....and Ipod nano 8gb previous version....

Thanks


it should, but you may need some ipod services that come with itunes. at least that happened to me.


Interesting .....

But, exactly, what do you mean?

Could you please make any example?

Thanks

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Reply #3380 –
I'm looking forward to using this non-commercial alternative to itunes, but the following problem occurs:

I have installed the plugin and the "ipod" sub-menu shows up in the "file" menu. The playlist of my ipod nano 6G is shown properly in a window. But when I try to add files to the ipod, I get the following error:

"DB Version 5 requires iPhoneCalc.dll. Write operations are disabled."

NB: I had copied the iPhoneCalc.dll file to the foobar2000 application folder as the foo_dop manual says.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks a lot in advance!

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Reply #3381 –
Quote from: katoblepa on
Interesting .....

But, exactly, what do you mean?
You need the driver, as stated in the requirements.

Quote from: limonium on
I'm looking forward to using this non-commercial alternative to itunes, but the following problem occurs:
Probably an old iPhoneCalc.dll. Check the iPod manager download page..
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Reply #3382 –
Thank you for your quick reply, musicmusic!

I have now replaced the iPhoneCalc.dll with the current one from the mediafire.com download link on your download page, but the problem remains the same. Do you have another idea how I could get the application running?

Thanks in advance!

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Reply #3383 –
OK. Do you have iPod manager 0.6.8.9? Is there anything unusual about your fb2k installation path?
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Reply #3384 –
Hi musicmusic,

yes, I downloaded and installed iPod manager 0.6.8.9 (my Windows Explorer says it was last changed on March 6th, 2011). My fb2k installation path is C:\Program Files\foobar2000\. When I unpacked iPhoneCalc.dll to this folder, I had to enter my Admin password, but it worked fine and the file can now be found in this folder. It seems to me that fb2k or the ipod manager just don't see that this file exists. Am I wrong?

NB: I downloaded and installed your columnsUI tool, too - this one (gorgeous tool!) works fine.

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Reply #3385 –
It's kind of a generic message, so it could be for a number of reasons.

Let's try this:
(Close foobar2000)
1. Download Dependency Walker.
2. Open foobar2000.exe in it
3. Go to Profiling/Start profiling...
4. Enable LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress function call logging, also use full paths when logging
5. Run it and send me the entire output

Hopefully that will work (it doesn't really for me on Windows 7 64-bit).

Also, is there anything unusual about the way you start foobar2000?
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Reply #3386 –
Hello musicmusic,

well, that's weird indeed: iPod manager works now! Let me tell you how:

I downloaded and started Dependency Walker. Before I could find out what "enable LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress" means, I saw in the window opening before I clicked "Profiling/Start profiling" that the program was obviously using the path to the old fb2k version in the folder "C:\Program Files\foobar2000 v1.0" for some reason - I don't know why. This folder had been created automatically when I had updated to the latest fb2k version about a week ago, it seems to contain the old version (although I am not really sure about this). This is strange because the iPod manager plugin and the columns UI plugin are definitely not within this folder but in the folder "C:\Program Files\foobar2000" which was created/updated during my latest fb2k update.

Thus, I just tried and copied iPhoneCalc.dll to the "old" folder (C:\Program Files\foobar2000 v1.0) - and now the iPod syncs without problems...

Do you see an explanation to this?

Many, many thanks for your help and patience and greetings to the UK!

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Reply #3387 –
Hello musicmusic,

i would appreciate if you could answer my question here. Surely the access to ipods storage disk is the main point of your component but it also contains so many features i wish for synching with my normal mp3/android smartphone players: mainly tag mapping, auto conversion, add artwork to file, Ui for synchronizing/sending with/to playlists/library and so on. I still hope that someone will make such a component but on the other side all that features exist in your component already: Throwing them together in an own component with its special prefrences would make happy many people. What do you think?

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Reply #3388 –
Quote from: limonium on
Do you see an explanation to this?
Not sure, but the component specifically looks for iPhoneCalc.dll in the same folder as the foobar2000.exe process; if you check the location of the running foobar2000.exe using task manager I'd think it'd be the v1.0 one.

Quote from: q-stankovic on
Hello musicmusic,

i would appreciate if you could answer my question here. Surely the access to ipods storage disk is the main point of your component but it also contains so many features i wish for synching with my normal mp3/android smartphone players: mainly tag mapping, auto conversion, add artwork to file, Ui for synchronizing/sending with/to playlists/library and so on. I still hope that someone will make such a component but on the other side all that features exist in your component already: Throwing them together in an own component with its special prefrences would make happy many people. What do you think?
I do understand, however the component is mostly designed with an iPod/iPhone/etc. environment in mind and hence there would be a lot of rewriting needed - which I don't really have the time for.  Also, metadata remapping might not be possible in the same way if the device doesn't use a database/external source for metadata. Lastly, unfortunately I didn't add that to the wiki..
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Reply #3389 –
First let me say thank you for this great plugin I just switched from iTunes to foobar2000 and while it was tricky I'm starting to see the light : )

On my iPod, I like to see %rating% in **** as part of the title of a track such that I can see the rating on track listings on the iPod, without having to actually select individual tracks. To achieve this, I have set up the following metadata remapping for the Title field in foo_pod's preferences:

  $if($greater(%rating%,0),$repeat(*,%rating%) ,)%title%

foo_dop does this and uses the rating stored corresponding in the ID3 meta field. However, foo_dop seems to insist on using $meta(rating) even if foo_playcount is installed to manage rating information. Instead of using %rating% (defined as "taken over" by foo_playcount's documentation,) foo_dop reads the ID3's $meta(rating). Of course, one could enable foo_playcount's (unrecommended) advanced option to keep ID3 in sync with it's own DB, but I really wish foo_dop would honor prefer %rating% over $meta(rating).

Or am I missing something?
 

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Reply #3390 –
I have an 8g nano, much to my chagrin I can't seem to find a way to remove media with the manager.  What am I missing/doing wrong?

Otherwise this is totally great!

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Reply #3391 –
Quote from: dub4u on
However, foo_dop seems to insist on using $meta(rating) even if foo_playcount is installed to manage rating information. Instead of using %rating% (defined as "taken over" by foo_playcount's documentation,) foo_dop reads the ID3's $meta(rating).
It's due to the way the component formats titles; mentioned before but thanks for the reminder - I think I can fix it without much hassle.

Quote from: Pegobocorn on
I have an 8g nano, much to my chagrin I can't seem to find a way to remove media with the manager.  What am I missing/doing wrong?
I do get this from time-to-time so I must be doing something wrong. Anyway, run 'Load library' and then right-click on the tracks.
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Reply #3392 –
Anybody if/how foobar can sync with the latest generation of the nano?
I have the latest version of foobar, iphonecalc.dll in my general foobar folder, and foo_dop.dll in my components folder; however I still get the 'unable to write to database message' when I try to sync. I'm a relative new user so sorry if this is a repost - thank you everyone!

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Reply #3393 –
I have an iPod 5G, I wonder if all my played tracks can be updated on Last.FM. I didn't find a subject on that. When I use Itunes, I see my "playcount", is it possible that this "playcount" may be updated on Last.FM ?

For example I have "Soudtrack to fail in love - Charlie Winston" played 22 times. Is it possible, when i connect my iPod that on my profile last.FM, to see that Soundtrack to fail in love has been playing 22 times ?

Sorry for my english. I didn't find a subject on this thread precisely !

Thanks again.

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Reply #3394 –
I read 75 last pages and i Have the same problem that one user :


iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: duplicate column name: rental_expired
iPod manager: Generate SQLite database completed in 1.1931322 s


When I rewrite database, i get this on the console. Someone can help me please?

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Reply #3395 –
Excuse me cause I'm a noob, but I need some help. My sorting of playlists in my iPod goes after the last modified date I think. How do I do so that the sorting goes after what is set in foobar?

I got foobar v1.1.2, iPod 5g.

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Reply #3396 –
Hi,

I have a 5G iPod and would like to better understand how to use foo_dop with it.

In my Foobar library, I have three groupings that appear at the top of my album artists list:
(Compilations) - Collections of songs by various artists, the traditional kind of compilation.  Think like, those NOW albums.
(Songs) - Individual songs where I don't care to have the rest of the album.  I'd rather not have the artist show up under my artist list if I only have one song by them, but I still want to retain the proper tag information (album title, etc).
(Soundtracks) - I'd like these to be separate from other compilations in Foobar.

Right now I have foo_dop set up so these three appear in my artist list in my iPod, but only (Compilations) and (Soundtracks) appear in the iPod's Compilations menu (because they are tagged with ITUNESCOMPILATION=1).

My current foo_dop settings:

Metadata
Artist = $swapprefix(%album artist%)
Compilation = $if(%ITUNESCOMPILATION%,1)

Sorting
I'm not exactly sure what these do.  I have all three checked.

Ignore leading The/A - Currently, The Beatles show up in the right section, with the rest of the B artists.  However, when scrolling through the artist list, it will show "T"  in the overlay as it scrolls by (i.e., A B T B C D).  How do I fix this?

Place numbers and symbols last - I don't have any artists that begin with numbers or symbols.  The (Compilations), (Songs), and (Soundtracks) "album artists" show up under their respective first letters.  Is there any way to get them to show up at the top?

Force sort playlists - I'm guessing this forces the sorting of the playlists to alphabetical order, which is fine.


iPod Features - Artwork
If I leave the Source Script box blank but check "Add artwork files sent to iPod" and "Additionally use Foobar built-in art reader", will it ignore folder.* and only display embedded art?

Behavior - Sort iPod library playlist by
I have it set to %album artist% - %date% - %album% - %discnumber% - %tracknumber% - %title%.  However, on the iPod, after selecting an artist from the Artists list, it displays the albums in alphabetical order.  How do I get them to display in chronological order?


If anyone can suggest a better way to do this, please let me know.

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Reply #3397 –
This is so frustrating... I've set "Sort iPod library playlist by" to "%artist% - %band% - %date% - %album% - %tracknumber% - %title%", but nothing happens, it still sorts by last added to iPod... Any ideas would help.

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Reply #3398 –
Nice, love this. I hate iTunes...

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Reply #3399 –
Both spuunit and adeidein above, you're sorting just the playlist that's created in foobar when you view the iPod's contents.

The order in which the tracks are sorted on the iPod itself is, I would've thought, fixed by Apple. (That is, if you look at a particular album or all tracks, etc)

If you're looking at actual playlists that you've synced, the order is purely and simply the order that the tracks appeared in your foobar playlist - that's what you're syncing, and that's where you have to change it.