[seemingly abandonware] iPod manager
Reply #54 – 2006-06-09 03:07:42
Hi musicmusic, I am having problems with songs skipping that were sent over to the iPod with version 1.7. I sent 25 songs over (12 trk album m4a, 12 trk album m4a, 1 single mp3) and all of the tracks transferred over ok. The database file had all the tracks listed properly. So far, so good. From within foobar all the songs played properly within the playlist. When I disconnected the iPod from foo_dop and foobar and accessed the songs directly from the iPod, all of the tracks listed out on the screen properly, but certain tracks skipped. The single track was sent by itself and it skipped. The 2 albums were sent in one transfer. Track 2 and then tracks 9-11 from the 1st album skipped, the rest were OK. The 2nd album only track 7 skipped. I tried a few variations of deleting & resending, but still had the skipped tracks problem. Finally, I used foo_pod (I still have fb2k 0.8.3 on my system) to send the same tracks over to the iPod. All tracks listed out on the iPod screen correctly and played as expected. Let me know if you need further information. Edit: Skipped track- It showed the "Title", "Album" & "Artist" on the iPod screen for a second or 2, but then it skipped through to the next playable track. So, for example, with tracks 9-11, each track showed on the screen in sequence, but a track did not play until it reached track 12. Edit 2: Changing File name length fixed the skip with the "Single" mp3 track. The filename was 32 characters including (.mp3) the extension. So, filenames can only be 31 characters max. (27 name, 4 extension, including the dot). Edit 3: After counting the characters of my other skipped files, they were all over the 31 character limit. Tomorrow morning I will shorten the names to 31 characters and resend, to test if they will play.