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Reply #2575 –
Hi,
Yes that would happen if the same artist entry has differing sort artists.

So, are you saying some of those tracks have ARTISTSORTORDER fields? Can you remove them?

The remappings are not intended to display another unrelated field in place, but still your solution makes some sense. So I'll go with it for now..

Thanks
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Reply #2576 –
Version 0.6.6.2 released. See changelog for details.

(Some not-so-visible important changes, so do let me know if there are any regressions..)
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Reply #2577 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Sorry, plays aren't currently read from Shuffles. Regardless, the device doesn't record play timestamps (I know the official client just scrobbles them all with the same timestamp, but I'd guess it is another [a href='index.php?act=findpost&pid=666485']no-go for third party clients[/a].


Alright, thanks anyway. Great work in any case

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Reply #2578 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Version 0.6.6.2 released. See changelog for details.

(Some not-so-visible important changes, so do let me know if there are any regressions..)


Working great for me.  Nice job getting rid of those 2 dependencies.

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Reply #2579 –
musicmusic,

Is there a feature to add audio as audiobook (so ipod allows the bookmark feature)?  There is such an option in the latest itunes versions, I'm not sure if it's just a flag on the file or whatnot.

Thanks!

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Reply #2580 –
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Added the ability to set the media type to “Audiobook” via the iPod tag editor


should files set to audio appear under audiobooks? it's still under the normal artist list here, when set to this

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Reply #2581 –
"Additionally use foobar2000 built-in artwork reader" setting doesn't work for me. Album art is working fine with foobar2k but it doesn't sync to my iPhone. I need to use foobar built-in reader since it allow me to specify more than one source. Is there a way to do it with one-line source settings in foo_dop?

btw, sorry about my bad English.

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Reply #2582 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Hi,
Yes that would happen if the same artist entry has differing sort artists.

So, are you saying some of those tracks have ARTISTSORTORDER fields? Can you remove them?

The remappings are not intended to display another unrelated field in place, but still your solution makes some sense. So I'll go with it for now..

Thanks


New version fixes it indeed. I could remove the tags (they got added by MusicBrainz), but I was wondering about the behavior. Yeah, I use the remappings to replace the artist with another tag's value if it's present. I use it for songs I don't care which artist it is from but still want to have correct tags on.

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Reply #2583 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
No, it doesn't disable the interface on the device, rather it works with it and you can navigate the menu with the remote (as far as the iPod classic goes).

Regardless, it looks like an oversight on either Apple or Clarion's part..



Quote from: odyssey on
Just to mention, that my Alpine car-fi disables the iPod-interface as well. The EQ works, so I believe that soundcheck works as well.


I did some search and it turns out that whenever audio data is transmitted by iPod in digital mode (USB), then iPod's interface is disabled. On the other hand if it uses analog line-out, then it is used. Looks like a few years ago, iPods used to apply soundcheck adjustment only to headphone out socket, not even line-out! Apparently it was fixed with a firmware update from Apple.

For digital connections, it doesn't seem to be working even now. Just to rule out various factors, I tried different formats (aiff, aac, alac) and encoded/added souncheck using iTunes alone (rather than 3rd party softwares), but the problem persists irrespective of all that. I also checked equalizer which works fine. So, odyssey, soundcheck probably doesn't work with your car stereo as well.  Some people (including me) suspect that all volume related adjustments are done after DAC in iPod, may be by manipulating headphone amp or something. However, it is also possible that it is done in digital domain but somehow missed in USB interface. Anyway, I have given feedback to both Apple and Clarion, hope they fix it in future firmware if it happens to be the later case. If it is done in analog domain then probably it will never be done and- I will have to live with wavegain+ALAC or mp3gain/aacgain using mp3/aac (hoping that should work!).

BTW, iTunes stores soundcheck data in a tag named iTunNORM if it is encoded by recent version of iTunes itself, otherwise in it's database. Don't know why? There is also another way to manipulate volume of individual songs, which is using "volume adjustment" slider in iTunes->getInfo->options. Even that doesn't work with direct USB! In fact iPod itself doesn't seem to handle it properly even when using headphones. The slider in iTune is marked as -100% to +100%, and it seems to work like a linear adjustment indeed. But when same song is played on iPod, it probably interprets it logarithmically (dB). +100% setting makes the song blast like anything

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Reply #2584 –
Quote from: Fangs404 on
Working great for me.  Nice job getting rid of those 2 dependencies.
Thabks for the feedback

Quote from: zincsterio on
musicmusic,

Is there a feature to add audio as audiobook (so ipod allows the bookmark feature)?  There is such an option in the latest itunes versions, I'm not sure if it's just a flag on the file or whatnot.

Thanks!
Yes, the post below yours should put you in the right direction.

Quote from: Xenion on
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Added the ability to set the media type to “Audiobook” via the iPod tag editor

should files set to audio appear under audiobooks? it's still under the normal artist list here, when set to this
It will do similar to what it would in iTunes (i.e. it depends on your iPod model).

Quote from: KnightBaron on
"Additionally use foobar2000 built-in artwork reader" setting doesn't work for me. Album art is working fine with foobar2k but it doesn't sync to my iPhone. I need to use foobar built-in reader since it allow me to specify more than one source.
Well, it doesn't support the new artwork reader in foobar2000 1.0 yet. The download page doesn't claim support for fb2k 1.0 though. So check the changelog for the next couple of versions.

Quote from: yuriks on
New version fixes it indeed. I could remove the tags (they got added by MusicBrainz), but I was wondering about the behavior. Yeah, I use the remappings to replace the artist with another tag's value if it's present. I use it for songs I don't care which artist it is from but still want to have correct tags on.
OK. These sort fields are a bit of a pain really, I need to do some tests with iTunes to check how it deals with them when they are inconsistent..

Quote from: santosh.s on
Anyway, I have given feedback to both Apple and Clarion, hope they fix it in future firmware if it happens to be the later case.
Do let us know if you hear anything back
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Reply #2586 –
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When a remapping is used, the corresponding xxxSORTORDER field is no longer used

could you perhaps make this an option? i have several albums i want sorted independently of their remapped artist field.

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Reply #2587 –
I came into a lot of problems with foo_dop and my ipod.
Various artists were splits albums up into separate albums, one for each track.
This is a walkthrough for if you have problems too.

Set iTunes not to auto open with this iPod (as it can in the background mess everything up)

Use iTunes to remove all songs (foo_dop doesn't remove all unfortunately)

On the ipod itself set the option of having music-->compilations is checked otherwise they won't be shown
set a new tag for all Various-Artists Albums (albums with more than one main artist) IPOD_COMPILATION and set the value to 1

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=66369

Preferences-->Tools-->Ipod Manager

Database:

ARTIST Mapping:
$if(%IPOD_COMPILATION%,$if2(%album%,'('None')'),$if2(%artist%,$if2(%album%,'('None')')))
which is:
$if(%IPOD_COMPILATION%,%album%,%artist%)
with this to replace the artist with the album if it doesn't exist
$if2(%artist%,%album%)
and with the below no album clause placed in this to replace the album if it is blank

ALBUM Mapping:
$if2(%album%,'('None')')
clause to stop stray tracks not being shown in artist lists where there is only one album (which skips directly to the album when the artist is selected)

TITLE Mapping:
$if(%IPOD_COMPILATION%,[%artist% - ])%title%
track name preceeded by artist name with ' - ' as a divider if it is a compilation and the artist exists (placing something else here like the album if the artist is missing is unnessary as the album should be used already to access the compilation.)

COMPILATION Mapping:
%IPOD_COMPILATION%
I don't have artists called things such as "various artists" if I did perhaps the following would be more helpful:
$if($stricmp($meta(album artist),various artists),1,%IPOD_COMPILATION%)


Library Sort:
$if(%IPOD_COMPILATION%,,%artist%) - %album% - %disc% - %tracknumber% - %title%


http://yuo.be/ipod.php
http://yuo.be/wiki/dop:config:conversion

Set conversion to lame:
Convert audio tracks in unsupported formats[Checked]

Encoder: The location of lame.exe (Program files/lame if you did the job of an installer like I did)
Parameters: -S --noreplaygain -V 5 --vbr-new - %d
Extension: mp3

ReplayGain scan converted files [Unchecked]


If you do require ReplayGain I'd do it like this

SETUP:
Preferences
Advanced
Tools
ReplayGain Scanner
Album Grouping Pattern:
%album%

USE:
Select all song tracks
right click
select replaygain
scan selection as albums (by tags)

Can now see extra tags by using "Mp3Tag" program and looking at extended tags.


UNDO:
Same as above escept the last instruction which is;
Remove ReplayGain info from files

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Reply #2588 –
Quote from: randal1013 on
could you perhaps make this an option? i have several albums i want sorted independently of their remapped artist field.
I won't add an option for that, but I'll add remappings for the sort fields later on.
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Reply #2589 –
thanks

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Reply #2590 –
So dependencies on zlib libraries has been removed but, if I use ColumnsUI I still need them correct?

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Reply #2591 –
A bit off-topic, but you'll need it there if you are using custom PNG buttons.
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Reply #2592 –
there is a new nero aac encoder. however, files added with this codec and foo_dop cannot be played. artwork also doesn't work when using the new encoder with unchanged commandline.

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Reply #2593 –
Hrm, I'lll have a look... Thanks
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Reply #2594 –
Just tried using the same settings as on the wiki without issue.

What settings are you using, and what device do you have?
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Reply #2595 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Just tried using the same settings as on the wiki without issue.

What settings are you using, and what device do you have?


setting the number of concurrent encodings to AUTO instead of "4" (i'm on a quad core) fixes the problem.
device is iphone 3gs 32gb with latest fw

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Reply #2596 –
Doesn't make any sense then, auto would normally have picked up four anyway.

Are you sure it is nothing to do with the source file sample rate (etc.)? And what is your command line?
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Reply #2597 –
cmd is -q 0.50 -lc -ignorelength -if - -of %d

but i cannot reproduce it anymore. the problem persisted (with several albums, all wavpack 44,1 16bit) until i changed the number of concurrent encodings. now when i set it back to "4" it's working also. i don't know what happend there. i have not changed anything but replacing the neroaacenc.exe

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Reply #2598 –
I've been trying to follow the wiki and get the ipod manager working with my new ipod touch for a while now, but I finally got fed up and decided to ask for some help.  It gives me an error saying:

Please install/reinstall the MobileDeviceSign library.

So I google'd this and found some information, yet the information that seems to be lacking from every relevant google link, is "where do i get this mobiledevicesign.dll"  I searched for it on the internet and on my computer and there's no sign of this available for download or anything.


EDIT: Disregard this message, I decided to check the cached version of the website on google and found the download links for the files.  Thanks!

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Reply #2599 –
Please Help!  i have never used iTunes and right now im a newbie with foo_dop.  when i try to load songs into my ipod nano (supported model) the songs dont show up in my ipod. my ipod says i have zero songs in it.  i try to send songs by loading the ipod view list. then i synchronize everything and foo_dop tells me that i have, say, 18 songs in the ipod.  to double check, using left click => properties in "my computer" i can see that around 100 megabytes of space have been used out of my 8GB ipod. so that tells me that the 18 songs have probably been correctly loaded into the ipod. but then again..my ipod tells me i have zero songs when i start to use it. i really dont get it.


plz help !!!