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Reply #650 –
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Put iTunes in manual mode.

<nod> I have it in manual mode.


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This is supposed to work. What created the MP4 files? Do they show up on the audio or video list on the iPod? Do you have a sample file? (You haven't disabled the option on the advanced pref page right?)


I'm not sure which Advanced Preferences you are referring to.  I'll assume it is the Advanced Preferences for Foobar2000.  I have MP4 enabled there..to the extent that you can.

Here is a sample file that worked fine from iTunes but doesn't transfer with foo_dop.  When I transfer it using foo_dop it appears in the Video list on the iPod.

The program I used to convert from avi to iPod formatted mp4 is ...

(Moderation: Removed links to copyrighted content.)

Thanks for the quick reply.

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Reply #651 –
I sent the file to my iPod Classic, both to my existing library and from blank and it played as video no problem.

Yes I was referring to the iPod Manager option on the advanced prefs page ("Scan MP4s for video content") but if it came up on the video list then that shouldn't be the problem.

Have you updated your Nano 3G to the latest 1.0.2 firmware? Not sure why it works on my Classic and not your Nano 3G. (Also latest version of foo_dop?)

Otherwise I am not sure of what the problem is. I have a few remote ideas that I'll try for next version, so try that when I release it.
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Reply #652 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Yes I was referring to the iPod Manager option on the advanced prefs page ("Scan MP4s for video content") but if it came up on the video list then that shouldn't be the problem.

Have you updated your Nano 3G to the latest 1.0.2 firmware? Not sure why it works on my Classic and not your Nano 3G. (Also latest version of foo_dop?)



I updated the firmware last night.  I am using foo_dop0.5.0 TEST.

It's possible that it may just be an issue with the Nano 3G's.  My techie friends are saying that the hardware used is a completely new build.  There are virtually no duplicated components between the 3G Nano's and any of the other iPod's.  Now if only Apple could have nixed iTunes as well.........

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Reply #653 –
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Is there any way to implement support for breaking up flac+cue images into single files in the transcoder?
This is supposed to work. Did you set up the conversion settings correctly? What error do you get?

It appears to work until the very end of the process, where the plugin throws all kinds of errors relating to gapless playback. The files go to the ipod correctly and will play, however there is no gapless playback.

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Reply #654 –
I'm having a very odd problem with foo_dop.  I have a 2G Nano, and I put my Top Rated autoplaylist on it (songs rated 4 or higher).  Starting with foo_dop .4.7 (although I don't think it started immediately), certain songs don't play on the iPod.  They appear normally in all of the menus, and when I select them, I see the name, band, album art, etc., but then it immediately skips to the next song.  If if does this for one song from a particular album, it does it for all of them.

Even weirder, songs from one album (In Rainbows, actually) cause the iPod to reboot as soon as they are played.  This can be a bit of a pain, as you might expect.

When I get home I'll try rolling back to .4.6, and it's entirely possible there's just something wrong with my iPod, but I just thought I'd pass this along.

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Reply #655 –
Quote from: daellum67 on
It appears to work until the very end of the process, where the plugin throws all kinds of errors relating to gapless playback. The files go to the ipod correctly and will play, however there is no gapless playback.
Right. You probably have "Determine gapless data for files sent to iPod" checked. And it is just telling you it failed to determine the gapless data for some of the files you sent to the iPod (=> they won't play gapless). Only LAME MP3 and iTunes AAC is supported by the gapless scanner.

Quote from: sinfony on
I'm having a very odd problem with foo_dop.  I have a 2G Nano, and I put my Top Rated autoplaylist on it (songs rated 4 or higher).  Starting with foo_dop .4.7 (although I don't think it started immediately), certain songs don't play on the iPod.  They appear normally in all of the menus, and when I select them, I see the name, band, album art, etc., but then it immediately skips to the next song.  If if does this for one song from a particular album, it does it for all of them.

Even weirder, songs from one album (In Rainbows, actually) cause the iPod to reboot as soon as they are played.  This can be a bit of a pain, as you might expect.

When I get home I'll try rolling back to .4.6, and it's entirely possible there's just something wrong with my iPod, but I just thought I'd pass this along.
Do you use album art? It could be related to that. I doubt there's anything wrong with your iPod.

I did fix some bugs in album art handling along the way, so try 0.5.0 first (restore your iPod first to get rid of any remaining issues). You don't use any other apps with your iPod do you (apart from iTunes) ?.
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Reply #656 –
Wow.

So I figured out the problem with playing videos in the new 3g Nano.  music music, even though your iPod played a sample just fine mine continued to be obstinant.  Then I had a really dumb idea (I tried it after the new Radiohead album had similar issues playing).

I changed the file extension on the video from .MP4 to .mp4 .  Then I copied the video using foobar.  Works like a charm.

Apparently the new iPod doesn't like capital letters.  Either in mp3's or in mp4's.

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Reply #657 –
Quote from: OcseeMorahn on
Wow.

So I figured out the problem with playing videos in the new 3g Nano.  music music, even though your iPod played a sample just fine mine continued to be obstinant.  Then I had a really dumb idea (I tried it after the new Radiohead album had similar issues playing).

I changed the file extension on the video from .MP4 to .mp4 .  Then I copied the video using foobar.  Works like a charm.

Apparently the new iPod doesn't like capital letters.  Either in mp3's or in mp4's.

Ahh nice work  When I downloaded your file, it saved with the extension in lowercase

I sent a video with an uppercase extension and it just doesn't play the file (sits at 00:00). I'll make the next version convert extensions to lower case.

Thanks for the info.
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Reply #658 –
Quote from: sinfony on
I'm having a very odd problem with foo_dop.  I have a 2G Nano, and I put my Top Rated autoplaylist on it (songs rated 4 or higher).  Starting with foo_dop .4.7 (although I don't think it started immediately), certain songs don't play on the iPod.  They appear normally in all of the menus, and when I select them, I see the name, band, album art, etc., but then it immediately skips to the next song.  If if does this for one song from a particular album, it does it for all of them.

Even weirder, songs from one album (In Rainbows, actually) cause the iPod to reboot as soon as they are played.  This can be a bit of a pain, as you might expect.



In Rainbows was exactly the album that gave me problems.  Check to make sure that the mp3 extension is lowercase....instead of MP3.  That fixed it for me.

I went from seeing the songs in the list without being able to play them....to playing perfectly.

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Reply #659 –
Quote from: OcseeMorahn on
Quote from: sinfony on

I'm having a very odd problem with foo_dop.  I have a 2G Nano, and I put my Top Rated autoplaylist on it (songs rated 4 or higher).  Starting with foo_dop .4.7 (although I don't think it started immediately), certain songs don't play on the iPod.  They appear normally in all of the menus, and when I select them, I see the name, band, album art, etc., but then it immediately skips to the next song.  If if does this for one song from a particular album, it does it for all of them.

Even weirder, songs from one album (In Rainbows, actually) cause the iPod to reboot as soon as they are played.  This can be a bit of a pain, as you might expect.



In Rainbows was exactly the album that gave me problems.  Check to make sure that the mp3 extension is lowercase....instead of MP3.  That fixed it for me.

I went from seeing the songs in the list without being able to play them....to playing perfectly.

Genius!  No more crashing on In Rainbows.

Didn't have a chance to do a full restore today (I don't have iTunes installed on this computer), so still no luck with the skipped tracks.  I did test, though, and when I do "Load library" I can play all of the songs in Foobar from the iPod, so the files are all there, and they're not corrupted.  Any ideas?

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Reply #660 –
Quote from: sinfony on
Genius!  No more crashing on In Rainbows.

Didn't have a chance to do a full restore today (I don't have iTunes installed on this computer), so still no luck with the skipped tracks.  I did test, though, and when I do "Load library" I can play all of the songs in Foobar from the iPod, so the files are all there, and they're not corrupted.  Any ideas?

Do any of the other tracks that cause problems have non-lowercase file extensions? (Check how it is displayed in the Properties of the problem tracks in foobar2000 after a Load Library) If you send the same files again do they play ? (I assume not..)

Actually it's probably not album art problem, so don't restore unless you want to.
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Reply #661 –
Been using the 5.0 version of foo_dop now and so far it works perfectly, transfered around 500 songs to my ipod nano 8gb (3g) here the other day, worked flawlessly =)

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Reply #662 –
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Quote from: sinfony on
Genius!  No more crashing on In Rainbows.

Didn't have a chance to do a full restore today (I don't have iTunes installed on this computer), so still no luck with the skipped tracks.  I did test, though, and when I do "Load library" I can play all of the songs in Foobar from the iPod, so the files are all there, and they're not corrupted.  Any ideas?

Do any of the other tracks that cause problems have non-lowercase file extensions? (Check how it is displayed in the Properties of the problem tracks in foobar2000 after a Load Library) If you send the same files again do they play ? (I assume not..)

Actually it's probably not album art problem, so don't restore unless you want to.


The file extensions are lower case on the skipping tracks.  Sending them again doesn't have any effect.

Further weirdness: some of my folder.jpg files have been disappearing.  I noticed this because the album art on one album was displaying upside down in Foobar.  I went to update it and, when viewing in Explorer, there was no folder.jpg, even when displaying hidden files or viewing from the command prompt [EDIT: actually, in the command prompt, if I use "dir /ah" the file is visible].  When I tried to copy in a new folder.jpg, I was informed that there was already a file with that name, and that it was not accessible, so I couldn't delete/overwrite it.

Relevance: folder.jpg is missing in the folders of the albums with skipping tracks, yet the album art continues to display in Explorer, Foobar, and also on the iPod in the split second before it skips to the next track.  Album Art Downloader also purports to see these files in the folders where I can't see them.  I haven't got an iPod USB cable on me at the moment, but later I'll try copying out the MP3s, deleting the folders, and then recreating the folders and dropping the MP3s back in (which is what I had to do to solve my missing folder.jpg problem).

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Reply #663 –
Quote from: sinfony on
The file extensions are lower case on the skipping tracks.  Sending them again doesn't have any effect.
OK so let me make sure I have this right. You have some files which always fail to play on the iPod (skipped) when you send them using foo_dop. Other files are OK. If that's correct, my next question is what happens if you send one of the problematic files via iTunes.

Quote from: sinfony on
Further weirdness: some of my folder.jpg files have been disappearing.  I noticed this because the album art on one album was displaying upside down in Foobar.  I went to update it and, when viewing in Explorer, there was no folder.jpg, even when displaying hidden files or viewing from the command prompt [EDIT: actually, in the command prompt, if I use "dir /ah" the file is visible].  When I tried to copy in a new folder.jpg, I was informed that there was already a file with that name, and that it was not accessible, so I couldn't delete/overwrite it.
They are probably hidden, if your Windows Explorer set to show hidden files (Folder Options)? I think Windows used to hide those folder.jpg files via desktop.ini (also hidden) but I'm not sure on that / if it still does.
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Reply #664 –
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Quote from: sinfony on
The file extensions are lower case on the skipping tracks.  Sending them again doesn't have any effect.
OK so let me make sure I have this right. You have some files which always fail to play on the iPod (skipped) when you send them using foo_dop. Other files are OK. If that's correct, my next question is what happens if you send one of the problematic files via iTunes.

Quote from: sinfony on
Further weirdness: some of my folder.jpg files have been disappearing.  I noticed this because the album art on one album was displaying upside down in Foobar.  I went to update it and, when viewing in Explorer, there was no folder.jpg, even when displaying hidden files or viewing from the command prompt [EDIT: actually, in the command prompt, if I use "dir /ah" the file is visible].  When I tried to copy in a new folder.jpg, I was informed that there was already a file with that name, and that it was not accessible, so I couldn't delete/overwrite it.
They are probably hidden, if your Windows Explorer set to show hidden files (Folder Options)? I think Windows used to hide those folder.jpg files via desktop.ini (also hidden) but I'm not sure on that / if it still does.


You've got the situation right.

So, iTunes won't even load the files in question into the library.  I am officially at a complete and total loss as to explain what the hell is going on with these files.

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Reply #665 –
What file format are they? If you upload one I'll take a look at it (PM me the link if you like)
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Reply #666 –
Ok, the file has two id3v2 tags at the beginning of the file

I removed the first one with a hex editor & it imported into iTunes fine.

If you want to fix this with foobar2000, load the file into foobar2000 and from MP3 Tag Types in the context menu uncheck id3v2. (From my testing) this will remove the first id3v2 tag leaving the second one intact.

Probably any tagging you have been doing has gone into the first tag, though.
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Reply #667 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Ok, the file has two id3v2 tags at the beginning of the file

I removed the first one with a hex editor & it imported into iTunes fine.

If you want to fix this with foobar2000, load the file into foobar2000 and from MP3 Tag Types in the context menu uncheck id3v2. (From my testing) this will remove the first id3v2 tag leaving the second one intact.

Probably any tagging you have been doing has gone into the first tag, though.


That's done it!  I prefer not to think about how this happened, I'm just glad it works again.

Thanks for the fix!

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Reply #668 –
Is there a way to get my ipod to recognize more than one source for album art? i.e folder.jpg, cover.jpg, folder.gif etc.

Also, I added a bunch of videos to my ipod (80 gig classic) on a different computer and when I synched my ipod with foobar all the videos disappeared. How can I keep everything on my ipod but still add any new files or metadata that have been added to my library.

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Reply #669 –
Hello musicmusic,
Here is a proposal: a setting for playback in mono, for busted speaker situations or for people who may not hear equally well in both ears.
Thanks for considering.

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Reply #670 –
I think I may have screwed up my iPod. I have an 8GB 3G Nano and all was working fine. I updated the iPod firmware yesterday in iTunes as well as used it to transfer some songs. I then used foobar to transfer some songs (latest version of fooobar and foo_dop) and now my iPod says there are 0 songs on it. I can load the songs in foobar and listen to them, but I can't play them on the iPod or in iTunes.

I tried the "Rewrite iPod Database" in foobar but that didn't work. Is there a way I can use foo_dop to tranfer all my songs and videos to my HDD, format my iPod then transfer them back? Or is tehre a way I can rebuild the iPod database?
 

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Reply #671 –
I don't think you can copy the videos with foobar2000 but for the audio files it should be simple. Just add everything in the ipod to an empty playlist (File -> Add Folder...) and use the File Operations -> Copy To... dialog to set the filename pattern and to copy the files.

For the videos search through the ipod with a filemanager, they are there somewhere, probably hidden. I feel to lazy right now to check and tell you.

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Reply #673 –
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Quote from: Bojan on

For the videos...

...mp4 container is supported by foobar so File Operations are enough


Nice. It hung on one .mp4 video file but I restarted the copy and it worked. The hardest part was figuring out the the "File Operations" thing was a seperate plugin that wasn't installed by default, haha.

Thanks for your help.

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Reply #674 –
I cannot add any songs to my friends 2gb iPod Nano. After I load the songs into foobar2000, I right-click and click Send To iPod. I then get an error how the songs cannot be found.