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Reply #1350 –
Okay... I just edited all the strings in my firmware - at this point I'm just trying to see if it's possible to get the iPod to look at an entirely new directory before I start on the second firmware and the dual booting.

After editing about 30 or so strings from "iPod_Control" to "iPod_Contro1" it worked!!!

My iPod operates prefectly!

What I did was fully restore my iPod with iTunes so it was blank. I then synced one single song to my iPod also using iTunes. Uploaded the modded firmware and changed the name of the folder on the iPod from "iPod_Control" to "iPod_Contro1" and booted it up.
The song was found and the iPod played it. Even the album art was there.
Works a charm!

So now this is where your component foo_dop comes in right?
There is no way of changing or configuring the directory to which your component reads and writes?
To have more than one directory (two in my case) to choose from?

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Reply #1351 –
Nope. My best suggestion was to have two iPod control directories, one active and one secondary, and have a second firmware (or whatever method you can concoct) that just swaps them. That doesn't require you to edit strings in the Apple firmware in the way you are doing or require any changes in foo_dop.
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Reply #1352 –
Just started using Foo_dop and I love it.  No problems here so far.  Everything works great on my G3 Nano. 

My favorite feature has to the the ReplayGain support for SoundCheck.  Speaking of which, if there was one minor feature request, it would be a ReplayGain option to  "Prevent clipping according to peak".  That would be extremely helpful to eliminate clipping, especially when boosting the SoundCheck adjustment up.

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Reply #1353 –
I'm just confused a bit about how to go about adding artwork to my ipod. I have some of artwork in album folders (i.e. \Music\Artist\Album\folder.jpg) and other random songs in other folders (i.e. \Music\Other Music\"%artist% - %album%.jpg")

I used to have this:

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$if($cwb_fileexists($replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)folder.jpg),folder.jpg,$if($cwb_fileexists($replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)[%album artist% - %album%.jpg]),[%album artist% - %album%.jpg],))


But now that cwb_hooks isn't working with the 9.5.3, is there anway to have multiple sources??

Thanks in advance.

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Reply #1354 –
Quote from: Ice Devil on
Just started using Foo_dop and I love it.  No problems here so far.  Everything works great on my G3 Nano.
Always good to hear

Quote from: Ice Devil on
My favorite feature has to the the ReplayGain support for SoundCheck.  Speaking of which, if there was one minor feature request, it would be a ReplayGain option to  "Prevent clipping according to peak".  That would be extremely helpful to eliminate clipping, especially when boosting the SoundCheck adjustment up.
It is probably possible to calculate a SoundCheck value from the peak value, but I am not sure how well it would actually work wrt eliminating clipping on the iPod (?) Also, admittedly, I am not sure how to work out a gain value from the scale factor..

Quote from: Hayden54 on
I'm just confused a bit about how to go about adding artwork to my ipod. I have some of artwork in album folders (i.e. \Music\Artist\Album\folder.jpg) and other random songs in other folders (i.e. \Music\Other Music\"%artist% - %album%.jpg")

I used to have this:

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$if($cwb_fileexists($replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)folder.jpg),folder.jpg,$if($cwb_fileexists($replace(%_path%,%_filename_ext%,)[%album artist% - %album%.jpg]),[%album artist% - %album%.jpg],))


But now that cwb_hooks isn't working with the 9.5.3, is there anway to have multiple sources??

Thanks in advance.
You cannot have multple sources, but the foobar2000 artwork reader will pick up the folder.jpg, so you can use the configurable one to pick up the other one. Make sure you are using the latest foo_dop though.
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Reply #1355 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
You cannot have multple sources, but the foobar2000 artwork reader will pick up the folder.jpg, so you can use the configurable one to pick up the other one. Make sure you are using the latest foo_dop though.


Thanks, I really should have figured that would work, since I'd manage to get all the pics working in ng playlist using that same method (although it was a bit more trial and error) 

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Reply #1356 –
Musicmusic,

Not sure if this belongs in this thread or the columns_ui thread, but here goes. Would it be possible to add a free space or battery charge indicator in the iPod Devices panel? (or maybe even status bar?)

I think it would top off to this otherwise fantastic plugin.

Thanks in advance and keep up the great work

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Reply #1357 –
Quote from: mobilia on
Would it be possible to add a free space or battery charge indicator in the iPod Devices panel? (or maybe even status bar?)

Free space: Yes this is possible.
Battery charge: I'm not sure how iTunes does this. I had a nosey in the properties list and the best thing I could find was this:
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<key>BatteryPollInterval</key>
<integer>30</integer>
(What's that, 30 seconds?)

But I don't know how it polls it.. I sniffed the USB bus for a few minutes, but I didn't find anything unfortunately.

Then there's the question of how it does it for the iPod touch/iPhone.. In that case it actually displays a battery level I believe. (Maybe it does for normal iPods as well, I'll run down my battery and check..)

I will have have to do some more digging about this.

I would like to display these in the panel but hmm I need to work out a way to make it fit in with the tree it uses. But it would be nice to make that panel a bit more useful..
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Reply #1358 –
I've been adding a lot of new tracks to my iPod lately and I've thought of something the user should be shown before sending files to an iPod. Mutiple times, I've got a dialog while sending files telling me the iPod is full, which is quite annoying. I suggest a preview of a) free space on the iPod (like mobilia suggested) and b) an estimate of how much will be added/removed. Alternately a dialog after that in which you can decide which files to skip or something.

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Reply #1359 –
Quote from: PlazzTT on
Quote from: musicmusic on
Does anyone actually use "Load library and playlists"? It seems very cumbersome and I plan to remove it.


I've never used it, no.


I used it! I miss it now! I really miss this function (load ipod library and playlists) as I use foobar at work and home. Are there any workarounds that I have missed? I can't figure how to do this with manage contents.

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Reply #1360 –
Quote from: Nemphael on
Mutiple times, I've got a dialog while sending files telling me the iPod is full, which is quite annoying.
What dialog is this?

Quote from: Nemphael on
b) an estimate of how much will be added/removed.
It's really not that straight forward, mainly because of transcodes. But I could add a setting so you can provide an estimate of the bitrate that will be produced.

Quote from: d4g5h6 on
I used it! I miss it now! I really miss this function (load ipod library and playlists) as I use foobar at work and home. Are there any workarounds that I have missed?
The replacement is the iPod Devices panel. I didn't make a popup version yet if you are using Default UI (since no-one seemed to need it, but I'll do it for next build if you do).
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Reply #1361 –
[quote name='d4g5h6' post='573372' date='Jun 25 2008, 22:41']I used it! I miss it now! I really miss this function (load ipod library and playlists) as I use foobar at work and home. Are there any workarounds that I have missed?[/quote]The replacement is the iPod Devices panel. I didn't make a popup version yet if you are using Default UI (since no-one seemed to need it, but I'll do it for next build if you do).
[/quote]

Thanks dude! Don't bother making any changes

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Reply #1362 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: Nemphael on
Mutiple times, I've got a dialog while sending files telling me the iPod is full, which is quite annoying.
What dialog is this?

The error dialog box saying "Error writing iTunesDB file : Device full".

EDIT: As well as the other error dialog box, "Error occured updating your iPod".

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Reply #1363 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: Nemphael on
Mutiple times, I've got a dialog while sending files telling me the iPod is full, which is quite annoying.
What dialog is this?

Quote from: Nemphael on
b) an estimate of how much will be added/removed.
It's really not that straight forward, mainly because of transcodes. But I could add a setting so you can provide an estimate of the bitrate that will be produced.

Quote from: d4g5h6 on
I used it! I miss it now! I really miss this function (load ipod library and playlists) as I use foobar at work and home. Are there any workarounds that I have missed?
The replacement is the iPod Devices panel. I didn't make a popup version yet if you are using Default UI (since no-one seemed to need it, but I'll do it for next build if you do).


Uhh yeah I think it'd be pretty reasonable to have it as something default UI users can use, I've been using default + facets ever since 0.9.5 came out and I didn't even know there was a devices panel.

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Reply #1364 –
0.6.2.2 released, just a minor update. I tweaked things with sync on iPod touch/iPhones so it may work better for those with problems.

Also, I figured out the battery thing for the iPod classic/nano 3G. I added the status to "Properties" on the menu.

Note: This requires the Apple iPod driver to be installed. It actually comes with the Apple Mobile Device Support part of iTunes, maybe it is on Windows Update as well.

For raw data I have observed "0 / 2 / 100" and "0 / 3 / 100". If you see any other values, please let me know.

Quote from: Nemphael on
The error dialog box saying "Error writing iTunesDB file : Device full".
I will make it handle low space conditions a bit better so you shouldn't hit that.
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Reply #1365 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
0.6.2.2 released, just a minor update. I tweaked things with sync on iPod touch/iPhones so it may work better for those with problems.
Nice job!

Sync problem solved for me, thanks so much.

Alessandro
 

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Reply #1366 –
MusicMusic -
How do I change the hard coded directory in foo_dop? Hex editor or?
What was this .dll written in? I just want to try something....

Cheers

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Reply #1367 –
I've been using foo_dop for a while now and I appreciate having it around. I'm now wondering if it can help me with a problem. Basically, I lost the ID3v2 tags on 284 of my MP3s, but the tags still exist in my iPod library. (I can see all 6,000 of my songs' tags, intact, in the Manage Contents window and in Floola.) Is there any way that foo_dop can access the iPod database's tags in a way that will allow me to copy them back to those files? Or rewrite the ID3 tags using the iPod database? I really don't want to have to spend hours figuring out which track is which and then retyping all of those tags, and foo_dop just might be awesome enough to help with this, I figured. Thanks for any assistance.

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Reply #1368 –
I have an ipod nano and the new version of foo-dop 0.6.2.2.7 and foobar 0.9.5.3 crashes when i insert the ipod. version 0.6.2.1.7 works fine with no crash.  I have tried new version with itunes setting the ipod to manually mange the disk on and off.

error file starts with:

Illegal operation:
Code: C0000005h, flags: 00000000h, address: 00D7A9F0h
Access violation, operation: read, address: 00000000h

Also, could you consider an option to autodisconnect the ipod after syncing or or sending playlists to ipod?

Lastly, I tried adding a button on the foobar button bar to context menu\ipod\sync with ipod instead of having to go to the menu or right click on the playlist.  The button doesn't show the icon from the ipod devices panel in columns ui and the button also is not able to launch sync with ipod.  Am I doing something wrong here?

Regarding artwork, I think I read it somewhere that this isn't available, but is there a way to send embedded tagged artwork to the ipod thu foo_dop?

Thanks

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Reply #1369 –
Quote from: J44xm on
I've been using foo_dop for a while now and I appreciate having it around. I'm now wondering if it can help me with a problem. Basically, I lost the ID3v2 tags on 284 of my MP3s, but the tags still exist in my iPod library. (I can see all 6,000 of my songs' tags, intact, in the Manage Contents window and in Floola.) Is there any way that foo_dop can access the iPod database's tags in a way that will allow me to copy them back to those files? Or rewrite the ID3 tags using the iPod database? I really don't want to have to spend hours figuring out which track is which and then retyping all of those tags, and foo_dop just might be awesome enough to help with this, I figured. Thanks for any assistance.


Select the appropriate MP3s on the iPod, go to the properties window, select all and copy. Then, select the tracks missing the ID3v2 tags, go to properties window, select all and paste.

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Reply #1370 –
Quote from: rme on
Lastly, I tried adding a button on the foobar button bar to context menu\ipod\sync with ipod instead of having to go to the menu or right click on the playlist.  The button doesn't show the icon from the ipod devices panel in columns ui and the button also is not able to launch sync with ipod.  Am I doing something wrong here?

Can't help you with the icon, but you probably want "[Main menu item] File/iPod/Synchronise...", which works fine for me.
np: 4'33"

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Reply #1371 –
Quote from: Leak on
Can't help you with the icon, but you probably want "[Main menu item] File/iPod/Synchronise...", which works fine for me.

Were you able to get an icon on the button bar for an ipod or only the text?

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Reply #1372 –
Quote from: aphasia on
Select the appropriate MP3s on the iPod, go to the properties window, select all and copy. Then, select the tracks missing the ID3v2 tags, go to properties window, select all and paste.

Thanks for your reply. The problem is that I can't access a screen in which the tags are visible and selectable. The only way that I'm aware of to view the iPod database (as is) using foo_dop is to use the Manage Contents window, and you can't do any tag operations in that window. (Additionally, the file order is different than the iPod Media Library tab in fb2k's main window.)

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Reply #1373 –
Quote from: rme on
I have an ipod nano and the new version of foo-dop 0.6.2.2.7 and foobar 0.9.5.3 crashes when i insert the ipod. version 0.6.2.1.7 works fine with no crash.  I have tried new version with itunes setting the ipod to manually mange the disk on and off.

error file starts with:

Illegal operation:
Code: C0000005h, flags: 00000000h, address: 00D7A9F0h
Access violation, operation: read, address: 00000000h
Can you post the complete log please (in [codebox ] tags)? The crash log will be saved in your foobar2000 profile folder.

[edit] Never mind, I believe I know what the problem is..

I uploaded a new build 0.6.2.3 please try that.
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Reply #1374 –
Quote from: rme on
Were you able to get an icon on the button bar for an ipod or only the text?

No icon, of course - I just labeled it "Sync". I'm pretty sure the there's no default icon for the iPod (nor do I think that a plugin can specify it's own images, but I might be wrong), but you can of course specify a custom icon; taking a screenshot and editing it a bit should do the trick.
np: 4'33"