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Reply #2400 –
happens definitely when album artist tag is present

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Reply #2401 –
Does it behave any differently for a song added using iTunes?
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Reply #2402 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: skace on
It's one thing that you wrote this awesome component, but the prompt support when apple goes and changes everything up is incredible, thanks again. I don't use play counts so I'm pretty much back where I was and my ipod is working flawlessly.
Great, good to know it is working fine now, and you're welcome

Quote from: Fangs404 on
I'm experiencing kind of a weird bug.  I'm using foo_dop 0.6.5.7 with a non-jailbroken iPhone 3GS running OS 3.1.  I'm trying to add 3 Tiësto CDs.  I like to view my music by genre, and I have the genre for all my Tiësto CDs as "Electronic."  Under Electronic, all my other electronic music shows up, but Tiësto doesn't.  However, when I look under artists and songs, I see all my Tiësto music.  Why can't I see Tiësto under genre?  Is it because of the ë?
Don't see why that should affect it. Checked for any extra spaces etc. in the genre name? Was it working before? If you send another song with ë in it's artist does that show up? Otherwise send me a backup of your iTunes_Control\iTunes folder (I think last person to send a backup used iPhone Explorer) and I can check if anything's wrong in there...


OK, it's not the ë because I just put in another song (actually a Ray Charles song), but I changed Ray Charles' name to Tiësto, and it worked.  However, it only worked when the genre wasn't "Electronic."  When the genre is "Electronic," it doesn't work.  I'm sending you a PM with my iTunes folder.

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Reply #2403 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Does it behave any differently for a song added using iTunes?


no it's the same with itunes :-( (see also here)

while testing this i noticed another thing: when i edit an album (e.g. set compilation to yes or no) with itunes i added before with foobar, the album art of this album gets lost.

is it possible to workaround the compilation-artist thing with remapping of tags? i'm thinking of something like "if album-artist tag is present, move "artist" into the "title" field, so the title field looks like this: %title% (%artist%)" ;-)

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Reply #2404 –
Hi,

I am using an ipod classic 160Gb with foo_dop and am very happy apart from podcasts show up as normal music tracks. I am using rev 0.6.5.4. How can I help solve this one?

Thanks!

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Reply #2405 –
ok, here's the workaround for the "iphone/ipod touch does not hide compilation artists in artists menu"-problem:

remap artist to: $if(%album artist%,Various Artists,%artist%)
remap title to: $if(%album artist%,%title% '('%artist%')',%title%)

// does not work on normal albums now 

now all VA albums appear under "compilation" and "various artists" (in the artists menu)

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Reply #2406 –
Quote from: Fangs404 on
OK, it's not the ë because I just put in another song (actually a Ray Charles song), but I changed Ray Charles' name to Tiësto, and it worked.  However, it only worked when the genre wasn't "Electronic."  When the genre is "Electronic," it doesn't work.  I'm sending you a PM with my iTunes folder.
I had a look. One thing I saw is that some of the sort artists are a bit inconsistent. That might potentially confuse the device - but I'm not sure if it is the problem. With 0.6.5.7, if you run load library, and run 'Update metadata' on all items, that should get the sort fields in order. Let me know if it helps or not...

Quote from: dooferlad on
Hi,

I am using an ipod classic 160Gb with foo_dop and am very happy apart from podcasts show up as normal music tracks. I am using rev 0.6.5.4. How can I help solve this one?

Thanks!
Easiest thing is to carry on using iTunes for podcasts..  Sorry.

Quote from: Xenion on
ok, here's the workaround for the "iphone/ipod touch does not hide compilation artists in artists menu"-problem:

remap artist to: $if(%album artist%,Various Artists,%artist%)
remap title to: $if(%album artist%,%title% '('%artist%')',%title%)

// does not work on normal albums now 

now all VA albums appear under "compilation" and "various artists" (in the artists menu)
I would have thought:

Artist: %album artist%
Title: [%track artist% - ]%title%

would do it.

Quote from: Xenion on
while testing this i noticed another thing: when i edit an album (e.g. set compilation to yes or no) with itunes i added before with foobar, the album art of this album gets lost.
It will do, as that makes iTunes re-read all metadata etc. and it will only pick up embedded art.
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Reply #2407 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: Fangs404 on
OK, it's not the ë because I just put in another song (actually a Ray Charles song), but I changed Ray Charles' name to Tiësto, and it worked.  However, it only worked when the genre wasn't "Electronic."  When the genre is "Electronic," it doesn't work.  I'm sending you a PM with my iTunes folder.
I had a look. One thing I saw is that some of the sort artists are a bit inconsistent. That might potentially confuse the device - but I'm not sure if it is the problem. With 0.6.5.7, if you run load library, and run 'Update metadata' on all items, that should get the sort fields in order. Let me know if it helps or not...


That worked!  Thanks much.  I wonder how that got messed up.  Maybe during the update to 3.1?  Regardless, it's working now.  Thanks for your help.

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Reply #2408 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: Xenion on
ok, here's the workaround for the "iphone/ipod touch does not hide compilation artists in artists menu"-problem:
[...]
I would have thought:

Artist: %album artist%
Title: [%track artist% - ]%title%

would do it.

oh yes, this is actually the ultimate solution. thanks
maybe you can add this to the faq. it's so helpful for touch/iphone users
 

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Reply #2409 –
When syncing my iPod Touch 1g on 3.1, all the audiobooks I had synched with iTunes seem to be removed. Is there a way to create sync exceptions in foo_dop to prevent this?
Thanks

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Reply #2410 –
Quote from: Fangs404 on
That worked!  Thanks much.  I wonder how that got messed up.  Maybe during the update to 3.1?  Regardless, it's working now.  Thanks for your help.
Not sure - versions older than 0.6.5.7 would always reset the sort fields when writing the databases, but 0.6.5.7 preserves whatever was in the database. So maybe some tracks were added with iTunes, or maybe you toggled the "Omit leading 'The'..." option? Regardless, it doesn't really matter how it happened - if there was support for custom sort fields you could even make a mess of them yourself.. I will probably just have to make the component automatically fix them up to avoid issues..

Quote from: Xenion on
oh yes, this is actually the ultimate solution. thanks
maybe you can add this to the faq. it's so helpful for touch/iphone users
Yes probably, writing the question might be the harder part

Quote from: Shade[ST] on
When syncing my iPod Touch 1g on 3.1, all the audiobooks I had synched with iTunes seem to be removed. Is there a way to create sync exceptions in foo_dop to prevent this?
Thanks
But why not sync them with foobar2000? I was thinking of adding some check boxes to control which types are excluded types from removal though.
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Reply #2411 –
Hi

Thanks for a wonderful piece of software that has meant I can finally be iTunes (and the 98MB download) free. It's great to be able to burn lossless FLAC and have it seamlessly converted to my iTouch.

One minor problem - I found all the cover art for my albums but it doesn't get synced to the iTouch. My albums are stored under '<root>/Artist/Album' and I named the artwork as 'Cover.jpg'. The artwork shows up fine in Foobar2000. In iPod Manager option, I checked 'Add artwork to files sent to iPod' and 'Folder' for 'Source:'

I am using FB2000 0.9.6.9 and 3.1.1 software on the iTouch. Would it be worth wiping the iTouch and doing a clean sync ?

Thanks in advance
--
Andy

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Reply #2412 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: Shade[ST] on
When syncing my iPod Touch 1g on 3.1, all the audiobooks I had synched with iTunes seem to be removed. Is there a way to create sync exceptions in foo_dop to prevent this?
Thanks
But why not sync them with foobar2000? I was thinking of adding some check boxes to control which types are excluded types from removal though.

Audible DRM
Do you know how to force a book to become an audiobook in the ipod section, btw? (so that it shows up not in other playlists)

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Reply #2413 –
Quote from: andyc on
One minor problem - I found all the cover art for my albums but it doesn't get synced to the iTouch. My albums are stored under '<root>/Artist/Album' and I named the artwork as 'Cover.jpg'. The artwork shows up fine in Foobar2000. In iPod Manager option, I checked 'Add artwork to files sent to iPod' and 'Folder' for 'Source:'
You'll need to set the source to "Cover" then or just tick 'Additionally use built-in fooobar2000 artwork reader' as that should pick it up. Then run 'Load library' and use the 'Update artwork' shortcut menu command.

Quote from: Shade[ST] on
Audible DRM
So excluding DRM tracks from removal might be a better solution (?)
Quote from: Shade[ST] on
Do you know how to force a book to become an audiobook in the ipod section, btw? (so that it shows up not in other playlists)
You can set the MEDIA KIND field to Audiobook, does that do what you want?
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Reply #2414 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: ise on
I'm using ipod nano 5G.
adgjmp.dip.jp/up/itunes1.7z
adgjmp.dip.jp/up/itunes2.7z (after play,skip,change rating...)
I hope that it useful.
Aha great, seems to all make sense, thanks  So there should be support for reading back play counts in one of the next builds..
Sorry, there's still one thing I'm not clear about. I would appreciate another backup, but instead with several tracks added by iTunes (not foo_dop). Then just do a few plays/skips/ratings again.. Thanks.
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Reply #2415 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Sorry, there's still one thing I'm not clear about. I would appreciate another backup, but instead with several tracks added by iTunes (not foo_dop). Then just do a few plays/skips/ratings again.. Thanks.

I used itunes.
adgjmp.dip.jp/up/itunes.7z
I hope that it useful.
I want to use sort order tag.
Would you support it?

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Reply #2417 –
Quote from: ise on
I used itunes.
adgjmp.dip.jp/up/itunes.7z
I hope that it useful.
Thanks. Seems like I was panicking over nothing - as far as I can see it should all already work.  I know how it all works now at least, which is quite useful

Quote from: ise on
I want to use sort order tag.
Would you support it?
Yes, I should be able to add it for the next build.

Quote from: mrm on
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: Shade[ST] on
Do you know how to force a book to become an audiobook in the ipod section, btw? (so that it shows up not in other playlists)
You can set the MEDIA KIND field to Audiobook, does that do what you want?

I'm also interested in this. Where do I find this option?
For now you have to open Properties and create that field with that value for the relevant tracks.
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Reply #2418 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: Shade[ST] on
Audible DRM
So excluding DRM tracks from removal might be a better solution (?)
Quote from: Shade[ST] on
Do you know how to force a book to become an audiobook in the ipod section, btw? (so that it shows up not in other playlists)
You can set the MEDIA KIND field to Audiobook, does that do what you want?

Excluding DRM tracks might work.

As for the MEDIA KIND = Audiobook, I'll have to try that.

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Reply #2419 –
Is it possible to even delete fiels on the Ipod through f2k?

I get the manager to work but i would also like to be able to delete files from the ipod so I don't have to install Itunes:P

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Reply #2420 –
Go to the top menu and click File > iPod > Load Library. You'll get a playlist with the contents of your iPod. Right-click on items you want to remove, find iPod > Remove from iPod.

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Reply #2421 –
Hi,

when I want to synchronise my iPod Nano 5G, the plugin always wants to remove many mp3 files which shall be added in return, why!?

I tried everything: I changed all options within "Preferences", I rebuilt my iPod etc. !

I noticed this problem also with iPod Nano 4G...but it didn't occur until I removed some F** Folders within the music Folder on my iPod Device manually, what can't be undone now...

You can see this issue here:

http://www.pictureupload.de/originals/5842...henablage02.jpg

It are always the same songs which shall be removed...the rest of the mp3 files stay on the iPod and the plugin doesn't have a problem with them.

Thanks for your help

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Reply #2422 –
Where are the source files stored? Have you double-checked the source files' last modified dates? Can you also compare one of the file's last modified date with the respective file's last modified date on the iPod? (Use load library, then open containing folder to locate the file on the iPod.)
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Reply #2423 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Where are the source files stored? Have you double-checked the source files' last modified dates? Can you also compare one of the file's last modified date with the respective file's last modified date on the iPod? (Use load library, then open containing folder to locate the file on the iPod.)


The source files are stored on my local hard drive "D:\MP3s\"...the source files' last modified dates doesn't differ from the files which are stored on the iPod...

When I compare my foobar's playlist with the iPod view (currently there's only this playlist on my iPod), the last modified dates differ about one or two seconds...but some mp3 files which foo_dop wants to remove have exactly the same size, date etc as the source files...

I just found out that if I change some file information (e.g. tags) oder the file size, foo_dop replaces the file and then the issue with this file is resolved! But I can't resize oder modify 400 mp3 files...

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Reply #2424 –
I will send you a version later on that logs some info which should explain what's going on..
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