Quote from: viddy on 2009-10-15 16:25:50

Any ideas? :>

Have you guys tried the tag ipod_compilation and set the value to 1?

http://yuo.be/wiki/dop:metadata

I'm having some problems with artwork on my iPod Nano 4G. Occasionally, some songs seem to have wrong album art (Even though it shows up fine in Foobar as a folder.jpg). I don't know why, but it's happened a couple of times. I haven't given it much thought or tried to find the cause yet. Any ideas?

I there, I totally love this plugin. However, when I upload an compilation album (let's say the Best of the 80s) each number/single on the iPhone is show as an album. So I get 15 times the "best of" albums.

I am using an iPhone 3GS with the firmware (still) 3.1.

I tried looking on this forum for an answer but I couldn't find one  Any help is appreciated!

Is there any way to create a playlist from the iPod in fb2k? More specifically, I have an On-The-Go playlist that I would want copied to fb2k.

Oh yeah, I have a 2009 160GB iPod, it's working just well with 0.6.5.7, just noticed some .flac files that are repeatedly synced to the iPod. Tad bit annoying.

I have an issue with using the "update metadata" function with my iPhone (3.1 firmware). I'm no longer able to modify any metadata. If I try, it reverts back to the old metadata. If I modify metadata from inside iTunes, the metadata changes will be reflected on the iPhone, but when I go back to Foobar2000 it will still display the old metadata when I reload the library.

Dear musicmusic
I have a development request: With the increased usage of pen drives and memory cards as a means of storing music for use in car audio systems, would it be possible to use such a device instead of an iPod with your plugin? It would be great to grab a selection, apply replay-gain data and copy to a removable drive or drive\folder.

Thanks for all your hard work to date.

All my albums are tagged with "ITUNESCOMPILATION" (1/0). I believe this is the official tag for compilations.

However am I right I need to use "ipod_compilation" for proper use with iPod Manager? If so I will change all my files. Or is it possible to change "ipod_compilation" to "ITUNESCOMPILATION"?

There is a little delay before the device updates the file where the info is pulled from (~2 minutes) so I'm not sure if that is interfering with your testing.

I am going to try to load 3.1.2 firmware again. Does anyone else have it loaded?

I've tested myself and it does work.

There is a little delay before the device updates the file where the info is pulled from (~2 minutes) so I'm not sure if that is interfering with your testing.

Quote from: Dr_Colossus on 2009-10-16 19:44:34

I have an issue with using the "update metadata" function with my iPhone (3.1 firmware). I'm no longer able to modify any metadata. If I try, it reverts back to the old metadata. If I modify metadata from inside iTunes, the metadata changes will be reflected on the iPhone, but when I go back to Foobar2000 it will still display the old metadata when I reload the library.

'Update metadata' updates the iPod database with the files' tags (from the copy of the file on the device) as displayed in foobar2000. If that's what you wanted explain step-by-step what you are doing and where it misbehaved.

But the strange thing is that itunes' database doesn't need ~2min delay to sync successfully. 

First I directly modify the ID3 tags of the files present on my iPhone with the "Properties" screen. After this I have to "Reload Info" for the tag changes I made to the files to reflect in the playlist. I then "Update metadata" for the file in question. Instantly the tags visible in the playlist revert to the old metadata. If I go into properties again and "Reload Info", it will change back to my modified version of the tags. So the files have been modified but the changes aren't reflected in the metadata.

Quote from: Dr_Colossus on 2009-10-19 21:07:25

First I directly modify the ID3 tags of the files present on my iPhone with the "Properties" screen. After this I have to "Reload Info" for the tag changes I made to the files to reflect in the playlist. I then "Update metadata" for the file in question. Instantly the tags visible in the playlist revert to the old metadata. If I go into properties again and "Reload Info", it will change back to my modified version of the tags. So the files have been modified but the changes aren't reflected in the metadata.

Under foo_dop 0.6.5.8, do files on the device have valid last modified dates in their properties? They do on my touch 3G with firmware 3.1.2 so let's hope that it's not hardware dependent..

musicmusic
Please add value %ALBUM ARTIST% to metadata mapping. is one of the right decisions to add albums with various artists

Firstly, would it be possible to get the plugin to sync stats back to foobar before reading the playlists for the next sync? My current setup has it synchronising an autoplaylist built on song ratings (among other things). Ideally, I'd like to be able to give a song a low rating on my iPod and then have it automatically removed when I sync again. In its current implementation, I need to sync twice to achieve this -- once to set the rating on foobar's side, and again to have that file removed from the autoplaylist and, subsequently, from the iPod. That seems a bit excessive.

Secondly, I've recently ripped some tracks that seem to behave quite curiously. Part of an album gets resent to my iPod as if the files have changed, even though they haven't. I can sync the same playlist twice in a row, and these files keep getting removed and replaced each time, consistently. I've tried to remove all files from my iPod and sent everything all over again, but the problem persists. It's particularly annoying since these are FLAC-encoded files, and the transcoding takes quite some time. What's wrong here? It's the first time it's done this.

I understand, it's just slighty tricky. For it to work without misleading results, I think the window where you select playlists etc. would have to be delayed, so I'll have a think about it. You could do a 'rewrite database' followed by a 'sync' though if that makes things any simpler. There's also the possibility of smart playlists on the device.

Possibly this:
http://yuo.be/wiki/dop:start#i_tagged_some...ed_when_syncing

Try running 'Reload info' under Properties for the source tracks.

The other alternative is one of the metadata fields is changing after the conversion.

It looks like the latter issue was the problem. I had a good look at the metadata for the offending tracks and it turns out they all had leading zeroes in the track number field (the single digit ones, at least). Those were presumably getting stripped in the sync process, and the plugin thought the files were different. Removing the leading digits fixed the problem.

I can add a mapping for Album Artist, yes.

I think the old timestamps have been cached and are causing issues.

This should hopefully sort your problem:

1. Do a load library
2. Run reload info on all the loaded tracks.
3. Use iPhone Explorer / Browser etc. to delete metadata_cache.fpl from the root of the device.
4. Do another load library.

I did some testing.
I click "File -> Ipod -> Send playlists...", select playlist and send it to ipod. This playlist plays fine.
Then lets try to remove it. "File -> Ipod -> Manage contents", select playlist and click "Remove". It removes playlist... But files are still there. How to remove them with this plugin? Or what am I doing wrong?

PS Sorry, my English isn't very good.

When you do this, could you pleasepleaseplease consider to add another mapping "Audiobook" (setting both IPOD_SKIP_WHEN_SHUFFLING and IPOD_REMEMBER_PLAYBACK_POSITION)? I'd love to have such a mapping to map certain genres (i.e. "$if($stricmp($meta(genre),spoken word),1)") to those tags.

Another feature request: It would be nice if you could simply select one of Foobars existing Converter Settings as defined in Tools/Converter instead of having an extra setting defined on the iPod Manager/Conversion page.

I've had to perform this operation again in order to modify metadata. Same problems as before. I pretty sure I've updated to 0.6.5.8 on both the computers I use foo_dop on.

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I can add a mapping for Album Artist, yes.

When you do this, could you pleasepleaseplease consider to add another mapping "Audiobook" (setting both IPOD_SKIP_WHEN_SHUFFLING and IPOD_REMEMBER_PLAYBACK_POSITION)? I'd love to have such a mapping to map certain genres (i.e. "$if($stricmp($meta(genre),spoken word),1)") to those tags.

Are you averse to setting the MEDIA KIND field though?

And for ALBUMSORTORDER too, please  I prefer to use %date% to sort albums.