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Reply #2000 –
Yes, you will need to connect it once to iTunes to do the pairing if foo_dop indicates it failed to do it in the foobar2000 console.

I haven't seen anything to say whether that is exclusive to Windows 7, or not, I don't see why it would be.
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Reply #2001 –
Hello, when I synchronise my iPod nano 4G with fb2k there's always an error "Failed to add file to iPod: Object not found". But I know that the files are there and I've noticed that the iPod loses connection when synchronising.
The usb cable is not the problem, I've been trying with my iPod nano 1G and everything went well; besides I have two usb cables. iPod is set to use as a harddrive and to manage music manually (I am german so I don't know how these functions are called in english ;P)
iPod only loses connection when synchronising, if I do nothing, the connection is stable (I guess it's stable, I don't know 100%)

please help!

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Reply #2002 –
You could try using Process Monitor if you want to investigate what file operation is failing.

There is an option on the main synchronise screen to eject the iPod when it is finished, that will pop up with a "Safe to remove.." message though. If the disconnection is not simply the result of that, it would suggest a hardware problem, possibly with your iPod...
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Reply #2003 –
Hi.
I have a question.
Does scrobbling works with Shuffle 2G?
I'm using fb0968, audioscrobbbler141 and dop 0644.
Everything works fine but scrobbling from ipod.

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Reply #2004 –
Does foo_dop support writing ratings to the iPod database? I tagged my files with %rating% so far, but I'm not sure if that is recognized. If not, what's the appropriate field?
 

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Reply #2005 –
Quote from: 4d0lf on
Does scrobbling works with Shuffle 2G?
Apparently not, I don't recall anyone highlighting it before though. I will try and add support for that in the next version.
[edit] I'm not sure actually if it reports the last played time or not, which would be needed for scrobbling. An example iTunesStats file after playing some tracks would be helpful here.

Quote from: durch on
Does foo_dop support writing ratings to the iPod database? I tagged my files with %rating% so far, but I'm not sure if that is recognized. If not, what's the appropriate field?
As long as they are in the range 0-5, they should be transferred to the iPod. You can use the official Playback Statistics component if you want.
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Reply #2006 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
An example iTunesStats file after playing some tracks would be helpful here.

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...so it won't work. Thanks for reply.

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Reply #2007 –
As mangled as that turned out copying and pasting it directly into your post, I can only see counts of plays there and no timestamps. Quite possibly the device doesn't actually track the real-time date/time, the modified date on the iTunesStats file might be a hint at that...

So unfortunately it doesn't look like last.fm synchronisation is possible, some rudimentary play count synchronisation may be though with the official playback stats component.

Standard iPod models use a "Play Counts" file which is a bit more detailed, I don't believe that is used at all on the Shuffle 1G/2G, but feel free to double check...
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Reply #2008 –
iTunesStats
2 is few plays after 1, I posted this to show you the progress, maybe you can do something about this, but I doubt it.

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Reply #2009 –
when i try to send a song to my ipod i get a message saying, "MobileDeviceSign library required for 2.x firmware support."

Edit:

Never mind, I just needed the dll

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Reply #2010 –
Quote from: 4d0lf on
iTunesStats
2 is few plays after 1, I posted this to show you the progress, maybe you can do something about this, but I doubt it.
Well, the timestamps could be interpolated I guess.. But I would rather create an updated API then as I can at least flag up any values as interpolated then.

The other thing is will last.fm get unhappy if there are overlapping plays (i.e. with your computer)? They would be more likely if I did this. Maybe this hole isn't worth digging....
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Reply #2011 –
Quote from: labou on
when i try to send a song to my ipod i get a message saying, "MobileDeviceSign library required for 2.x firmware support."

Edit:

Never mind, I just needed the dll

Hello,

Got the same problem here but the dll is installed! I tried re-installing it a few times, but it doesn't help. What is weird is that I can get the ipod content, but I can't push some music on it, nor get the model info. Here is the console output :

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iPod manager: Connected to Apple Mobile Device (DID: 1, PID: 1291, UID: 2b3eea3d0f92b0f5116374fdbfc0036142381693)
iPod manager: USB AMD enumerator: Found USB\VID_05AC&PID_1291\2B3EEA3D0F92B0F5116374FDBFC0036142381693
iPod manager: Apple Mobile Device: Detected DBVersion: 4
iPod manager: Apple iPod/iPhone connected. Device Instance Path: USB\VID_05AC&PID_1291\2B3EEA3D0F92B0F5116374FDBFC0036142381693
iPod manager: Error: Failed to load library MobileDeviceSign.dll

Last line appears when I try to push music to my ipod (with the error popup).

I'm using :
foobar2000 v0.9.6.6
foo_dop v0.6.4.1
ipod touch 32GB 1G updated to 2.2.1
itunes 8.1.1.10 installed
XP SP2

Any hints?

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Reply #2012 –
Did you put MobileDeviceSign.dll in your main foobar2000 folder or somewhere else?

It's only involved in signing the database after modifying it: hence it does not affect reading the device.
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Reply #2013 –
Wow! That was the problem... it works perfectly now!
I had put the dll in the component folder.

Thanks!

Moderation: Removed useless full quote of the preceding post.

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Reply #2014 –
Question: one reason I haven't updated to newer releases (my current one is at least a half year old) is because the newer versins of this plugin require so much more space to be on the ipod. For example, currently, I only need to leave around 50 mb clear on the ipod at all times when transferring files. On the newer versions, it would require much more. Why is this exactly?

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Reply #2015 –
So that it doesn't run out of space when writing database files etc. It should be .5% of the capacity by default.

You can change the amount of space reserved in advanced preferences.
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Reply #2016 –
Ah ok, cool.

Another quick question: If we do not use id3 tags for are album art, can artwork be read at all from the ipod when playing via foobar? For example, if all of my artwork is stored in folder.jpgs when I send it to the ipod, is it possible for that artwork to somehow be used when playing songs from the ipod library?

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Reply #2017 –
I have an iPod nano 1G with 4 GB of space. That means 0.5% is 200 MB. Is it really necessary to have that much space reserved or is it safe to reduce the amount? To what number should I reduce it to have more space but avoid problems?
LOL, forget this. I just can't calculate.

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Reply #2018 –
Hello,

I just discovered this great foobar2000 plugin and really appreciate your work!

But unfortunately it doesn't work on my computer: When I want to "Sychronize" or "Sent playlist to iPod" the progress bar runs through and I get the following error for each track that is being added:

"Failed to add file to iPod: Falscher Parameter." ("Falscher Parameter" is German (I have a German Windows XP), i would translate it with "Wrong parameter").

It just worked fine on the computer of my friend with my iPod.

What can this be? Is there a log file I could look into (I am software developer myself too)?

Any help would be appreciated.

- Daniel

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Reply #2019 –
Seems strange.

It works with iTunes, right?

Try using Process Monitor to see what operation exactly is failing.

Also, the Apple Mobile Device Support part of iTunes comes with an iPod driver for any semi-recent iPods, you don't say what model you have but making sure the latest driver is installed may be an idea anyway. Also make sure your OS is up-to-date.
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Reply #2020 –
Hi,

thank you for the info. I have run Process Monitor and saved all unsuccessfull events as Process Monitor file (you can open them in the latest version of PM). I would be really cool if you could have a quick look into it.

A few lines near the bottom with a result of "INVALID PARAMETER" look interesting. These are QueryAttributeTagFile operations on the files
  • "I:\iPod_Control\iTunes\iTunesDB.dop.backup"
  • "I:\iPod_Control\iTunes\iTunesDB"
  • "I:\iPod_Control\iTunes\iTunesDB.dop.temp"
  • "I:\iPod_Control\Artwork\ArtworkDB.dop.backup"
  • "I:\iPod_Control\Artwork\ArtworkDB"
  • "I:\iPod_Control\Artwork\ArtworkDB.dop.temp"
  • "I:\iPod_Control\iTunes\dopdb.backup"
  • "I:\iPod_Control\iTunes\dopdb.temp"
EDIT: You can find the log file here (click the "Right click here..." link at the top).

Regards,
Daniel

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Reply #2021 –
I don't think those are relevant - I get those same entries myself but they are followed up here with a QueryBasicInformationFile or similar, and not related to "Failed to add file to iPod" as that's earlier on when it is copying files.

Are you sending files which would be converted/transcoded? Maybe double check that is set-up correctly in that case - though still not clear what would be causing the errors.
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Reply #2022 –
Just a post to thank you musicmusic, i've just realized today that doo_dop now handle iphone as well

i can't do without it now

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Reply #2023 –
I already double checked that. I am testing with 192 kb CBRs which do not have to be converted and I use the exact same converter configuration as on the machine it worked correctly (this was a plain Server 2003 x64 VMware that has never seen any software from Apple but it worked great out of the box).

I just updated to Service Pack 3 and updated the foobar2000 to the latest version a couple of hours ago - without any difference. I don't know what else I should do. I have an iPod Video 5G with 30 Gigs by the way with Firmware 1.1.1.

Would it be of any help if I would send you an unfiltered log file (I had a filter on foobar and result not successful)?

Thank you for your time. I really appreciate that.

- Daniel

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Reply #2024 –
I don't think it is anything to do with I/O since there wasn't anything in the log.

Is your OS install missing the ASCII code page? That would explain it, some things like nLite have done stupid things like removing that but there you go.
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