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Reply #1300 –
Question: Now that "Refresh Ipod Library Metadata" is gone, what should we use to upload our track plays to last.fm?

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Reply #1301 –
Just rewrite database, or a normal sync if you use that. (Basically, any command that modifies the device.) That other command was never the best one to use..
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Reply #1302 –
Quote from: Fractal_Mortality on
Question: Now that "Refresh Ipod Library Metadata" is gone, what should we use to upload our track plays to last.fm?


I always used "Rewrite iPod database", as recommended in the foo_audioscrobbler changelog when foo_dop support was first added. That's still there.

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Reply #1303 –
Transparent art problem: fixed  Awesome!
Just curious though, why does dop transfer all the art after the audio files? It might make more sense to send the art along with each file at a time, although I dont know if this would be inefficient from a CPU standpoint.

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Reply #1304 –
Quote from: alphaex32 on
Transparent art problem: fixed  Awesome!
Just curious though, why does dop transfer all the art after the audio files? It might make more sense to send the art along with each file at a time, although I dont know if this would be inefficient from a CPU standpoint.

I'd hazard a guess that it keeps track which files use which art while uploading the files, then only uploads a single copy of each art file into the artwork database on the iPod.

Also, not writing the artwork database while copying files to the iPod might also reduce filesystem fragmentation.

And since I'm curious - what was it that made the iPod show half-transparent JPGs? It's not as if there were a transparency value in the JPG format...
np: 4'33"

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Reply #1305 –
Quote from: alphaex32 on
Transparent art problem: fixed  Awesome!
Great!

Quote from: alphaex32 on
Just curious though, why does dop transfer all the art after the audio files?
It's just design/technical reasons really.. Fragmentation of the .ithmb files is a concern, it causes some issues on older iPods, but that's not the real reason because it can be avoided by preallocating space. It just gets incredibly complicated mixing it in with the implementation of multi-threaded transcoding (apart from the conversion/replaygain threads, there is another thread which tags and moves files to the iPod album by album... basically it's very complicated) and the way the component groups tracks into albums/groups (it doesn't do this until it has finished copying tracks, and these are stored in the iPod database).

Quote from: Leak on
And since I'm curious - what was it that made the iPod show half-transparent JPGs? It's not as if there were a transparency value in the JPG format...
It was basically the first thing I thought it could have been... According to the XML properties file from the device the artwork bitmaps were supposed to be stored in RGB555. I thought that maybe they were using the last bit for the transparency, but I expected it to be transparent if it was set and opaque if it was unset. So I verified that the component wasn't setting it and left it until now when I got those .ithmb files which alphaex32 luckily included which showed the difference compared to iTunes...
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Reply #1306 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Just rewrite database, or a normal sync if you use that. (Basically, any command that modifies the device.) That other command was never the best one to use..


Quote from: PlazzTT on
Quote from: Fractal_Mortality on

Question: Now that "Refresh Ipod Library Metadata" is gone, what should we use to upload our track plays to last.fm?


I always used "Rewrite iPod database", as recommended in the foo_audioscrobbler changelog when foo_dop support was first added. That's still there.


Ah, thank you both.

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Reply #1307 –
1. The album named the album Quartet and "Quartet" is registered in iPod.
2. When the album list is displayed, the same album as "Quartet", Quartet, "Quartet", and Quartet is repeatedly displayed.
3. There was no problem before foo_dop-0.5.4-TEST.7z.

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Reply #1308 –
Quote from: XAX on
1. The album named the album Quartet and "Quartet" is registered in iPod.
2. When the album list is displayed, the same album as "Quartet", Quartet, "Quartet", and Quartet is repeatedly displayed.
3. There was no problem before foo_dop-0.5.4-TEST.7z.


I've seen something similar to this. I had an album called "The Warning" and other called "Warning", and in my album list on the iPod "Warning" and "The Warning" were listed repeatedly under W (maybe 10 times)

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Reply #1309 –
I'm still having trouble with a smart playlist based on ratings.  It is only detecting a small number of songs and I'm not sure why these songs are showing up when none of the hundreds of other songs I have rated aren't.

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Reply #1310 –
XAX & PlazzTT: Thanks, I'll fix this for the next version.

bort: It will work of what is in the iPod's database. The latest version will pick up ratings not stored as normal metadata when setting metadata in the database. That won't automatically affect existing tracks on the iPod; the update metadata command should sort that or alternatively you can remove and re-send them.
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Reply #1311 –
Is there any way to change metadata mappings on the ipod? For example, I had mapped %album artist% as artist, but now I want the artist to be normal while mapping %album artist% to compilation instead. I tried syncing, updating the metadata, and rewriting the database after changing these fields to no avail.

Edit: Two things: I'm running a 5G on Vista and the second link on the very first post in this thread is dead.

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Reply #1312 –
1. You need to do "Load library" then select affected files and do "iPod/Update Metadata..." in context menu.
2. Works here but changed anyway
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Reply #1313 –
Thanks alot for the great plugin - worked flawlessly for me so far on my 5G

I've got a little feature request: would it be possible to set "Skip when shuffling" and "Remember playback position" for several files simultaneously? (I have Audiobooks consisting of hundreds of files and it would be nice if i could exclude them from shuffling whithout going mad )

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Reply #1314 –
Quote from: Northpack on
I've got a little feature request: would it be possible to set "Skip when shuffling" and "Remember playback position" for several files simultaneously? (I have Audiobooks consisting of hundreds of files and it would be nice if i could exclude them from shuffling whithout going mad )
Yes I guess the properties window in Manage contents needs a multiple track mode. Actually though normally the iPod would activate those automatically for Audiobooks with m4b or aa extension/format.. however those aren't supported by foobar2000 (we can ignore .aa but .m4b could be added).

As an alternative, you can tag your files with IPOD_SKIP_WHEN_SHUFFLING and IPOD_REMEMBER_PLAYBACK_POSITION set to 1. Not the nicest way but it's an option for now..

I may just add remappings for these as well, as I modified the config page to accommodate more in next version. This would help you if you can work out if these tracks are audiobooks based upon metadata.

Probably you already know but you could also just set these on the iPod using iTunes (for now).
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Reply #1315 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Yes I guess the properties window in Manage contents needs a multiple track mode. Actually though normally the iPod would activate those automatically for Audiobooks with m4b or aa extension/format.. however those aren't supported by foobar2000 (we can ignore .aa but .m4b could be added).

As an alternative, you can tag your files with IPOD_SKIP_WHEN_SHUFFLING and IPOD_REMEMBER_PLAYBACK_POSITION set to 1. Not the nicest way but it's an option for now..

I may just add remappings for these as well, as I modified the config page to accommodate more in next version. This would help you if you can work out if these tracks are audiobooks based upon metadata.

Probably you already know but you could also just set these on the iPod using iTunes (for now).

Maybe not the nicest way, but it does the job - thanks for the hint. Yet a multiple track mode would be a nice thing to have indeed!

I have all of these audiobooks as mp3, ripped track-by-track from cd (because my old mp3 player wasn't capable of resuming playback). I guess it isn't possible to have mp3s filed as audiobooks on the ipod anyway?

However you could map the genre-tag to enable both options, so that one could specify the kind of genres handled as audiobooks.

Thanks again for your effort!

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Reply #1316 –
Love the plugin! Is there any chance you would consider adding support for iTunes-style "chapters," so that single-file podcasts and albums with chapter-stops can be added via foo_dop? I realize it's probably not on everyone's wishlist, but it would be a wonderful addition to an already impressive product.

For reference, iTunes chapters are specified by a timed text track, which can be added to any *.m4a container using the "QuickTime Friendly" build of MP4Creator.

    - M.

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Reply #1317 –
Hey musicmusic,

I was just checking out the change log for foo_dop, and it has a log up to version 6.2, but all I can find is 6.1.1. Where is 6.2?
Song List: keikoniumboards.ke.funpic.org/files/songlist.html

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Reply #1318 –
Quote from: Northpack on
I guess it isn't possible to have mp3s filed as audiobooks on the ipod anyway?
I don't believe so, in a non-hacky way anyway.

Quote from: M on
Love the plugin! Is there any chance you would consider adding support for iTunes-style "chapters," so that single-file podcasts and albums with chapter-stops can be added via foo_dop? I realize it's probably not on everyone's wishlist, but it would be a wonderful addition to an already impressive product.

For reference, iTunes chapters are specified by a timed text track, which can be added to any *.m4a container using the "QuickTime Friendly" build of MP4Creator.
I'll have a look at some point, but I reckon it will be a bit complicated.

Quote from: Keikonium on
Hey musicmusic,

I was just checking out the change log for foo_dop, and it has a log up to version 6.2, but all I can find is 6.1.1. Where is 6.2?
On my hard drive at the moment  Probably will release it today sometime.
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Reply #1319 –
0.6.2 released. See changelog for details.

Notes:
  • After upgrading, you will need to reconfigure conversion settings
  • After upgrading, you will need to reconfigure your artwork source script to not specify a file extension
  • There is now a DirectShow based video thumbnailer. It is opt-in, in case some screwy DirectShow filters you have installed decide to explode. But anyway, the combo of Haali Media Splitter and ffdshow seem to work fine for me. If you have this enabled it still looks for artwork via the normal methods first.
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Reply #1320 –
The sync seems to be playing nice with mediamonkey now (dop still recognizes files it's synced even after mediamonkey modifies the db). It would be nice if dop could recognize duplicates of files sent by other programs during sync, but I guess this would be really difficult to do accurately. Anyway, Im hoping to ditch itunes and mediamonkey completely now that foo_dop has gotten so good.

Quick request...could you have the "send to ipod" command use a similar sync confirmation dialog to show files that it will skip?
 

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Reply #1321 –
Hello,

is it posible that the iPod sorts the albums by release year (stored in the date tag) instead of sorting them alphabetical order ?

Thanks in advance
Alex

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Reply #1322 –
After updating to 0.6.2 very strange things happened to my ipod database: some (but not all) of the artists appear dozens of times on the ipod; same for the album view. An example how it looks like:

A
B
C
D
C
D
C
D
C
D
C
D
C
D
E
F

However, if I load the library to foobar, there ain't such dublicates. I tried to rewrite database, re-sync but it doen't help any

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Reply #1323 –
Oops, I knew I was forgetting something  Should be sorted now though in 0.6.2.1  (Just do a rewrite database)
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Reply #1324 –
Quote from: alphaex32 on
Quick request...could you have the "send to ipod" command use a similar sync confirmation dialog to show files that it will skip?
I don't know.. it isn't something that needs confirming, and also if you knew which files you didn't want sending you could deselect them in the first place. I could maybe put it in the results dialog though. I may just add an option to make send files (not sync) a bit more fuzzy.

Quote from: Alexander Ostuni on
is it posible that the iPod sorts the albums by release year (stored in the date tag) instead of sorting them alphabetical order ?
The field may vary between tracks.. so I would need some tricks to work around that. Maybe. You can use a remapping as an alternative though.
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