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Reply #3250 –
can someone tell me their mapping value for the compilation field in database tab of the preferences? mine somehow got messed up 

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Reply #3251 –
Quote from: Harun on
can someone tell me their mapping value for the compilation field in database tab of the preferences? mine somehow got messed up 


Totes depends on how you want it to decide what's a compilation. I like mine to be called compilations if the "album artist" differs from the "artist" field, so I have this possibly overcomplicated thing:
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$if($or($and($greater($len($meta(BAND)),1),$not($strcmp($meta(BAND),$meta(artist)))),$and($greater($len($meta(album artist)),1),$not($strcmp($meta(album artist),$meta(artist))))),1,%ipod_compilation%)


You could probably just go with:
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$if($strcmp($meta(album artist),Various Artists),%ipod_compilation%)

-if you use "Various Artists" as album artist in foobar to denote a compilation.

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Reply #3252 –
Quote from: zachncheeze on
Scrobbling to last.fm from iPod does not seem to work anymore! I am pretty sad about this!

It used to work fine until recently - I use foo_audioscrobble and foo_dop with an iPod touch 2nd gen and the 4.0 software or whatever, which is supported yet when I sync my ipod my last.fm doesn't update, my cache contains 0 tracks, and playing a song in my library doesn't update last.fm with any of my plays.

I use my ipod more than my PC to listen to music, so this is pretty sad. I may have to go back to using itunes at this rate... or winamp... if I can't scrobble, I'm sad.


The problem some of us have been having is that whilst last.fm scrobbling does work, updating playback statistics in your media library does not (check further up the thread - unfortunately it's gone quiet since, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed). From the sound of it, your problem is more just to do with foo_audioscrobbler itself, seeing as it doesn't update last.fm with any plays from your media library either.

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Reply #3253 –
Does anyone want to help with nano 6G testing? Just a couple of people to try out a new version.

Thanks

[edit] Testing now done.
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Reply #3254 –
Quote from: chongy5 on
Quote from: zachncheeze on
Scrobbling to last.fm from iPod does not seem to work anymore! I am pretty sad about this!

It used to work fine until recently - I use foo_audioscrobble and foo_dop with an iPod touch 2nd gen and the 4.0 software or whatever, which is supported yet when I sync my ipod my last.fm doesn't update, my cache contains 0 tracks, and playing a song in my library doesn't update last.fm with any of my plays.

I use my ipod more than my PC to listen to music, so this is pretty sad. I may have to go back to using itunes at this rate... or winamp... if I can't scrobble, I'm sad.


The problem some of us have been having is that whilst last.fm scrobbling does work, updating playback statistics in your media library does not (check further up the thread - unfortunately it's gone quiet since, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed). From the sound of it, your problem is more just to do with foo_audioscrobbler itself, seeing as it doesn't update last.fm with any plays from your media library either.


That's what I thought at first too, but suddenly, my media library began scrobbling again. So my media library when I run from my PC scrobbles, but not my iPod.

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Reply #3256 –
I also would like to help testing. I just got a new nano 6G and I'm so annoyed that Apple changed things to force us to use iTunes

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Reply #3257 –
I tested foo_dop 0.6.8.4 and iPhoneCalc.dll with my iPad running iOS 4.2(8C134b)

I am able to copy music(with album art and ratings) to the iPad quite nicely. I can go into the iPod app and see everything normally as if it were transferred from iTunes.

However, when I sync the iPad with iTunes(for calendars, pictures and apps) all the music is deleted - even if I have 'Sync Music' unchecked.

Id imagine that iTunes is just overwriting the music DB, but I dont know how to stop that from happening.

Is there a way to prevent iTunes from deleting my music?
If not, Id be willing to help test anything with my iPad.

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Reply #3258 –
Hi,

Did you enable "Manually manage music and videos"? Just unticking "Sync music" is telling iTunes you don't want any music on there.
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Reply #3259 –
How is 6G support looking?

I can't stand iTunes!

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Reply #3260 –
Regarding play stats/ratings issues, they are being reported correctly therefore I do not see any issues on my side. [edit] Actually, for me it is working if the original file is in the media library. Also, don't forget that the plays/ratings will be lost if you use iTunes first.

Quote from: Habitats on
How is 6G support looking?
The feedback was positive, so look for news at the weekend.
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Reply #3261 –
Quote from: zepdad on
[...]musicmusic, are there any tests you would like to see performed?  I have a clean 6G ipod and intend to use a temporary library of 100+/- songs in various folder structures for my tests.
If you are finding that all tracks in the same folder are being assigned the same artwork, then your problem is almost certainly to do with folder.jpg.

Ensure that foobar2000 and iPod manager are both set to not read it. If it's in the foobar2000 defaults, then you should also have a whinge at someone.
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Reply #3262 –
I now also tested the new foo_dop and everything seems to work. I now updated my foobar2000 and the playlist statistics to get the rating on my ipod and back in foobar. But if I now want to synchronize my ipod and i pick a few playlists to sync with the ipod, it wants to add all the music i have (~10.000 songs). I can add playlists to the ipod with the option "send playlist", but this is not the same as synchronizing because now when sending the same playlist a second time, I get twice the same playlist on my ipod. With synchronizing this didn't happen before wiht my old ipod 4g. What can be the case here?

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Reply #3263 –
Hi,
You can untick "Media library" when syncing if you don't want your whole library on the device. Only what is in the selected playlists will remain on your iPod.
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Reply #3264 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Hi,

Did you enable "Manually manage music and videos"? Just unticking "Sync music" is telling iTunes you don't want any music on there.



Thank you! Now it works.
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Reply #3265 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Hi,
You can untick "Media library" when syncing if you don't want your whole library on the device. Only what is in the selected playlists will remain on your iPod.


  Whoops, now I feel silly. I guess that setting was off by default in the previous foo_dop. Never guessed that was the reason. Great, then the new plugin works totally and I can ditch iTunes once more! Thank you very much!!!!

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Reply #3266 –
Hi,
For some reason, when I synced my iPod touch 2G with foobar (using the latest iPod manager plugin), the Artists view on Music now have letters on top of the artists (letter grouping) like this:


How can I remove this? It doesn't happen with iTunes.

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Reply #3267 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Regarding play stats/ratings issues, they are being reported correctly therefore I do not see any issues on my side. [edit] Actually, for me it is working if the original file is in the media library. Also, don't forget that the plays/ratings will be lost if you use iTunes first.

Quote from: Habitats on
How is 6G support looking?
The feedback was positive, so look for news at the weekend.


Could I just check what version of Playback Statistics you are using?

I'll have a look again the next time I sync, but it certainly was with files that had not been modified since the previous sync. Will let you know.
 

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Reply #3268 –
Quote from: sonicroxs on
Hi,
For some reason, when I synced my iPod touch 2G with foobar (using the latest iPod manager plugin), the Artists view on Music now have letters on top of the artists (letter grouping) like this:
[...]How can I remove this? It doesn't happen with iTunes.
Generally those headings are there. I guess it is possible they are hidden when there are only a few entries but it would be bizarre if that was controlled by the component. Can you tell me what the language is set to on the device under Settings/General/International (English or British English I guess)?

Quote from: chongy5 on
Could I just check what version of Playback Statistics you are using?

I'll have a look again the next time I sync, but it certainly was with files that had not been modified since the previous sync. Will let you know.
I tested the current version, 3.0.1. The only other thing that comes to mind is if the links to DopDB are being lost - check if in 'Manage contents' the tracks have 'yes' under 'In DopDB'.
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Reply #3269 –
hi.

how to make ipod sort artists in chronflow by album artist? I I've tried tagging files with ARTISTSORTORDER but nothing's changed. Also tried using sort artist in the preferences of foo_dop and placing %album artist% but that's also changed nothing. I'm really frustred because i have multiple values in artist field and it makes show one album a couple of times with different artists. Any ideas?

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Reply #3270 –
OK, version 0.6.8.5 released.

For nano 6G support you need to get an updated iPhoneCalc.dll from the current version of MediaMonkey (3.2.3.1303). Copy it to your foobar2000 directory.

I need more feedback on nano 6G support so please let me know how you get on.

Thanks
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Reply #3271 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
I tested the current version, 3.0.1. The only other thing that comes to mind is if the links to DopDB are being lost - check if in 'Manage contents' the tracks have 'yes' under 'In DopDB'.


DopDB were all 'yes'. Just synced, my most recent files (I have a Recently Added playlist) all seemed to update with stats in the media library just fine, but some of the other songs didn't - however, they were aimed at a playlist which has entries, but for which there are no longer any files (in foobar itself). A definite improvement, whatever has happened...

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Reply #3272 –
So i just reinstalled win7 x64, and have been trying to use foo_dop-0.6.8.4.
It worked fine with my iPod 6G, but im having problems with my iPhone 3GS.

Ive been getting the "iPod manager: Failed to query registry for Apple" error.

I saw people say to go back to the 0.6.8.3 version, but i get the same error??
I also just tried the 0.6.8.5 version with the iPhoneCalc.dll in place, but then get a different error.
"Please install or reinstall Apple Application Support. (Error: Failed to query registry for AAS directory - The system cannot find the file specified.  )"

Anyone know what the problem is??

Thanks!

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Reply #3273 –
Quote from: MWP on
"Please install or reinstall Apple Application Support. (Error: Failed to query registry for AAS directory - The system cannot find the file specified.  )"

Anyone know what the problem is??


Do you have iTunes installed? Or at least the two services that foo_dop requires, as per the documentation?

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Reply #3274 –
nano 6g worked like a charm for me! I am using the latest version of foobar (1.1.1) & ipod manager (0.6.8.5)

After copying Media Monkey's iphonecalc.dll to the foobar directory, everything just worked so smoothly.

Thank you for all your efforts and hard work people!!