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Reply #2300 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Do the relevant tracks have ALBUM ARTIST set to Various Artists in their properties in foobar2000 then?

The mapping script needs to output 1 for any compilation tracks, otherwise they won't get flagged up as compilations in the iPod/iPhone database.


Oh. Case dismissed. I thought this stuff worked automatically. Yeah, Album Artist field was empty - after correction everything worked smoothly.
Thanks for help.

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Reply #2301 –
Hi, love the plugin.  One problem I've been having with the new version though -- after setting MEDIA KIND to "Audiobook" as well as IPOD_REMEMBER_PLAYBACK_POSITION to 1, the file, after being sent to my iPhone is sent correctly to the Audiobook section, but does not retain the 'remember playback position' property.  I need to manually go into manage iPod and click the checkbox.  If I don't set MEDIA KIND to audiobook and send the same file, it correctly checks the remember playback option.
 

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Reply #2302 –
Hi,

It's not supposed to be necessary to do anything extra to get that behaviour on audiobooks. Could you confirm the file type, and I will fix it for next build. Also is that software 3.0.x?

Thanks
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Reply #2303 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Hi,

It's not supposed to be necessary to do anything extra to get that behaviour on audiobooks. Could you confirm the file type, and I will fix it for next build. Also is that software 3.0.x?

Thanks


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Reply #2304 –
Hi, I love this plug in. It saves me some times with Itunes. But I have a quick question that is there anyway that I can convert to Apple lossless format instead of to AAC?

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Reply #2305 –
No. Not really. AAC above about q .65 should be transparent enough (and many would say you don't even need that much). To be honest, I have never found the reproduction of any of the iPods or iPhone to be very accurate anyway. They sound nice, but by no means does lossless help over a high q value NeroAAC encode. Save yourself the space and listen to AAC. If you're really not convinced, I can mock up a nice couple of samples that you can A/B/X test to prove it.

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Reply #2306 –
Small bug to report. Smart playlists that are filtered by the playlist value don't use strings. So a playlist "not skipped" shows up as an integer in the smart playlist edit dialog.



I haven't had any problems with odd dates since the last build. I'm wondering though if you have any advice for when play counts and skip counts stop getting logged by my iphone. It seems as though the database gets corrupt.

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Reply #2307 –
Quote from: Dr_Colossus on
Small bug to report. Smart playlists that are filtered by the playlist value don't use strings. So a playlist "not skipped" shows up as an integer in the smart playlist edit dialog.
Sorry, I guess I never finished up that rule. I'll try and sort it in one of the next builds..

Quote from: Dr_Colossus on
I haven't had any problems with odd dates since the last build. I'm wondering though if you have any advice for when play counts and skip counts stop getting logged by my iphone. It seems as though the database gets corrupt.
If you open iTunes before doing some write action with foo_dop, iTunes would merge the plays into the database. Otherwise foo_dop would do it. If foo_dop has an issue doing it, it might log something in the console. You can check the existence and contents of PlayCounts.plist in the iTunes_Control\iTunes folder before using iTunes or foo_dop to check if anything has being logged (it will be removed after using either though).
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Reply #2308 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Hi,

It's not supposed to be necessary to do anything extra to get that behaviour on audiobooks. Could you confirm the file type, and I will fix it for next build. Also is that software 3.0.x?

Thanks


The filetype is an mp3. I've been uploading podcasts as audiobooks to use the speedup and quick rewind features, as well as to keep them out of my shuffle.  I'm using an iPhone 1st gen with 3.0.1 firmware.

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Reply #2309 –
awesome plugin!
is there any way to import playlists from the iphone?

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Reply #2310 –
Hi,

So I got a new (to me) ipod that supports playcounts. It seems that all my stats in the f2k database are getting reset and overwritten by the stats from the ipod. this is pretty bad, ive got over 5 years of playback stats that are getting wiped out now. basically i had synced a bunch of files to the ipod with f2k, played a bunch today at work, came home and did a sync. all the tracks that played today now have a playcount of 1, and the first/last played show today's date. most of these files have played several times over many years. luckily enough i was able to recover the stats for those files as i keep a network backup of everything. but, this pretty much breaks this component unless there's a way to disable it. i would rather have the stats and ratings working because i find myself using my ipod as much as foobar now.

I'm using the latest versions of foobar, foo_dop, and foo_playcount.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Reply #2311 –
When I rewrite database to get my plays scrobbled all the music vanishes from iPod (No music - add from iTunes thing shows up in iPod when viewing music) and then I rewrite database again and they are back there. Nasty bug if I don`t remember to check this thing before leaving computer.

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Reply #2312 –
Quote from: gob on
Hi,

So I got a new (to me) ipod that supports playcounts. It seems that all my stats in the f2k database are getting reset and overwritten by the stats from the ipod. this is pretty bad, ive got over 5 years of playback stats that are getting wiped out now. basically i had synced a bunch of files to the ipod with f2k, played a bunch today at work, came home and did a sync. all the tracks that played today now have a playcount of 1, and the first/last played show today's date. most of these files have played several times over many years. luckily enough i was able to recover the stats for those files as i keep a network backup of everything. but, this pretty much breaks this component unless there's a way to disable it. i would rather have the stats and ratings working because i find myself using my ipod as much as foobar now.

I'm using the latest versions of foobar, foo_dop, and foo_playcount.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Well foo_dop only notifies foo_playcount of new plays so it's not possible for foo_dop to cause anything to be lost. If your existing plays are in tags and not the playback statistics database I think something similar might happen (?)

Quote from: lokioki on
When I rewrite database to get my plays scrobbled all the music vanishes from iPod (No music - add from iTunes thing shows up in iPod when viewing music) and then I rewrite database again and they are back there. Nasty bug if I don`t remember to check this thing before leaving computer.
You have an iPod touch with 3.0 software, right? Have you checked if anything is logged in the console? Is the iPod jailbroken?
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Reply #2313 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
You have an iPod touch with 3.0 software, right? Have you checked if anything is logged in the console? Is the iPod jailbroken?


Hi, I have the same problem with an iPhone with 3.0 software installed. I can't find any suspicious console entry when copying files to the iPhone and yes, the phone is jailbroken.

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Reply #2314 –
Just curious, I am looking at getting a new iPod and was thinking on getting the iPhone. I currently have a Nano 3g. Is anyone syncing without issues? I don't want to know about Jailbroke or any of that stuff. I just want out of the box iPhone syncing with Foobar.

Can you sync everything except music with iTunes and then sync music with Foobar or does the sync with iTunes screw with sync made with foobar? I would mean apps, contacts and calandars with iTunes without breaking the music? Are there any pitfalls I guess is what I am asking.

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Reply #2315 –
Quote from: Norman on
Hi, I have the same problem with an iPhone with 3.0 software installed. I can't find any suspicious console entry when copying files to the iPhone and yes, the phone is jailbroken.
See your PM.
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Reply #2316 –
musicmusic

Would it be possible to have iPod Profiles?

For example, I have a 80gb video iPod, so I don't want to transcode my MP3's before adding them to my iPod, however, my girlfriend has a Shuffle, and I will want to transcode the track before adding them, is this a feature that can be added to your to-do list?

Thanks

Ben

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Reply #2317 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: lokioki on
When I rewrite database to get my plays scrobbled all the music vanishes from iPod (No music - add from iTunes thing shows up in iPod when viewing music) and then I rewrite database again and they are back there. Nasty bug if I don`t remember to check this thing before leaving computer.
You have an iPod touch with 3.0 software, right? Have you checked if anything is logged in the console? Is the iPod jailbroken?


Yes. Jb and 3.0

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Reply #2318 –
i am looking for some help with the metatag remapping feature of this plugin. i just realized it's there, and am very excited to use it - it will make my ipod 100x more useful! but i'm struggling to get what i want out of it.

so if anyone has a moment to help me out:

Album
i want the album field to show the date in brackets before the album name, like this:
[2002] Phrenology

Artist
this one is tricky. i'll try to explain what i want the best i can.
(if Album Artist exists) and (if Album Artist is NOT "Soundtrack") then use Album Artist instead of Artist. otherwise just use Artist.

Compilation
if Album Artist is "Soundtrack", then make it a compilation.

many thanks to anyone who can help me sort these out!

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Reply #2319 –
Why would "Album Artist" ever be "Soundtrack", unless it was a multi-artist release put out by an entity named "Soundtrack"?

If it is a soundtrack release with multiple artists, the Album Artist should be either "Various Artists" or the specific predominant artist (e.g., the score composer for a movie soundtrack that also has included songs by other artists) with the Genre as "Soundtrack" and Compilation manually set to "1".

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Reply #2320 –
Quote from: Zarggg on
Why would "Album Artist" ever be "Soundtrack", unless it was a multi-artist release put out by an entity named "Soundtrack"?

If it is a soundtrack release with multiple artists, the Album Artist should be either "Various Artists" or the specific predominant artist (e.g., the score composer for a movie soundtrack that also has included songs by other artists) with the Genre as "Soundtrack" and Compilation manually set to "1".


apparently my methods offend you so much that you went out of your way to post about it. while your tirade is somewhat amusing, it's entirely unhelpful.

i like to scroll down my library to Soundtrack to find all my soundtracks. it seems fairly logical to me.

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Reply #2321 –
There isn't a standard - if you prefer to tag your albums with Album Artist as, for instance, Soundtrack - do so. Other prefer to set it to VA, Various Artists, the album artist or whichever option suits their needs.

Album: '['%date%']' %album%
Artist: $if($meta(album artist),$if($stricmp($meta(album artist),Soundtrack),%artist%,%album artist%),%artist%)
Compilation: $if($stricmp($meta(album artist),Soundtrack),1,)

I think this should do the trick, but no guarantees. You should look over the fields and maybe adjust something/ask for help if you need any.

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Reply #2322 –
thank you very much for the reply, Nemphael

no time now, but i'll try these out tomorrow and report back!

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Reply #2323 –
A couple of bugs.

Podcasts downloaded from iTunes get a duplicate entry that lack the podcast art and metadata after sending or deleting songs using foo_dop. I think this bug is pretty consistent. I only download podcasts using the built in iphone iTunes app, this may have something to do with it.

If I rewrite the database my iphone will typically inform me that it's updating the library when I try to play music. Like the above users my iphone will then sometimes complain about no content, I can fix it but loading itunes. There are other times when it will say "updating the library" and it will work just fine afterward, but I can't pinpoint the circumstances.

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Reply #2324 –
Quote from: Dr_Colossus on
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1. Unfortunately, the component doesn't support podcasts downloaded directly on the device. Try and download them using iTunes instead if you can.

2. Keep an eye on the foobbar2000 console - make sure it always says: detected DBVersion: 4, SQLiteDB: true, Got <large number> post process commands. If those ever change or if it ever says "Got 0 post process commands" then let me know. Also monitor the console for any warnings/errors.

Also make sure you completely close iTunes before using the component. Also let me know if it is jailbroken or not, there are some additional checks you can do if it is.
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