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Reply #2525 –
Quote from: Bamboula on
OK it's working now...

Cheers !
OK cool, sounds like something wrote a broken database then, do you know what?
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Reply #2527 –
Hi musicmusic, I get the following error in the console: "iPod manager: Error intialising Mobile Device support: Failed to load QTMLClient.dll - The specified module could not be found."

I have installed "AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi"...extracted from the latest iTunes install file. Also, I have QuickTimeAlternative installed instead of QuickTime in order to play QT media (which all works normally BTW).

I do have the file "QTMLClient.dll" within the QuickTimeAlternative folder...
I have tried copying that file to various folders (foobar folder, its plugins folder, windows, windows/system32) to no avail... any ideas (besides actually installing QT from scratch which I would like to avoid if possible)? Does your plugin look for that file in a particular location maybe?

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Reply #2528 –
AFAIK it sets some registry entries differently from the actual Quicktime which causes the issue, but anyway only the original Quicktime is recommended. You might need Apple Application Support as well these days, not sure.
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Reply #2529 –
This is going to sound like an odd request, but is there any way we could get the option to apply DSPs on the transcode page? Things such as crossfeed, Dolby Headphone, etc. are designed especially for headphones and might be useful to have automagically with a foo_dop sync.

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Reply #2530 –
Hi all, is it possible to modify the iPod Manager that way that it can be used with Standard MP3-Player in MSC/UMS mode (e.g. cowon D2, like in my case)?
The iPod Manager seems to be the very best sync-component around, but also the only one for foobar!
That is the only drawback, I have to use MediaMonkey just for syncing my D2, and the manual thing (with file operations - copy) is very annoying, if you have 16 + 16 GB!
It would be perfect if you could sync a playlist to a device.

Saludos, Deepwave

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Reply #2531 –
Hi, is there any components or features to do a quick comparison between the ipod database and f2k's database?
 

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Reply #2532 –
Everytime I sync my music library to my ipod, any file with changes are re-uploaded to the ipod. This includes songs where the only thing that's changed is the playcount. Is there a way to prevent files where only the playcount/date last played/etc has been changed from being re-uploaded to the ipod? This would save a lot of time when syncing the library.

Thanks!

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Reply #2533 –
Hi musicmusic, I recently started using this plugin for syncing a latest ipod classic (160Gb) model, to me it looks like the best iTunes alternative!

While sending a list of songs to iPod, it seems ALL files are transcoded to a temporary location first, and deleted at the end. When the list is huge and/or if ALAC encoder (using ffmpeg) is used, it needs a large amount of temp space. Is there any way to automatically transcode songs one by one, processing each of them with options chosen, transferring to iPod and deleting immediately after that step, thereby overcoming the requirement of large disk space?

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Reply #2534 –
Quote from: Takaji on
Everytime I sync my music library to my ipod, any file with changes are re-uploaded to the ipod. This includes songs where the only thing that's changed is the playcount. Is there a way to prevent files where only the playcount/date last played/etc has been changed from being re-uploaded to the ipod? This would save a lot of time when syncing the library.

Thanks!


Do you happen to be using "write playback statistics to tag"? If you are then no, each time a song's tag is written (each time you play a song) the file itself is being changed and foo_dop is seeing the files as different as it should.

I would assume that musicmusic could fix this by having dop write the changed tag to the file but that would be almost like copying the file anyway. Correct me if I am wrong but I think it is working as it should.

If you are not using "write playback statistics to tag" then I have no idea why it may be doing this.

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Reply #2535 –
Does anyone else have problems with smart playlists not updating on iPhone? I have live updating checked but songs are not getting updated. Example I have a playlist that has a Rating of 5 and last played is not in last 60 days. I select my playlist and shuffle. I see 802 songs, play one, go back to playlist shuffle again, and I still have 802 songs. Also, I can do the same thing by rating one of them less than 5 and it still keeps it on the playlist. Can anyone else confirm this?

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Reply #2536 –
I've been trying for about 40 minutes but I just can't get relative artwork paths working.

This is what I have: $if($meta(CATEGORY),.\..\..\cover,cover)

The exact same script (but with .jpg at the end) works on the builtin reader so I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Are relative paths actually NOT supported? It seems to break if I add more than one \ to it. (.\.\ doesn't seems to work either, though .\ does)

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Reply #2537 –
Quote from: Tropican on
This is going to sound like an odd request, but is there any way we could get the option to apply DSPs on the transcode page? Things such as crossfeed, Dolby Headphone, etc. are designed especially for headphones and might be useful to have automagically with a foo_dop sync.
Of course it could be implemented, but wouldn't your use require you to transcode every track..?

Quote from: deepwave on
Hi all, is it possible to modify the iPod Manager that way that it can be used with Standard MP3-Player in MSC/UMS mode (e.g. cowon D2, like in my case)?
The iPod Manager seems to be the very best sync-component around, but also the only one for foobar!
That is the only drawback, I have to use MediaMonkey just for syncing my D2, and the manual thing (with file operations - copy) is very annoying, if you have 16 + 16 GB!
It would be perfect if you could sync a playlist to a device.

Saludos, Deepwave
Well ideally, there'd be some sort of framework to handle all kinds of portable devices in one place. But the component was written around supporting iPods, so it would be a bit of work trying to add support for anything else. Not to mention iPod support in itself is a lot of work these days..

Quote from: gob on
Hi, is there any components or features to do a quick comparison between the ipod database and f2k's database?
There's the sync command (i.e. the preview).

Quote from: Takaji on
Everytime I sync my music library to my ipod, any file with changes are re-uploaded to the ipod. This includes songs where the only thing that's changed is the playcount. Is there a way to prevent files where only the playcount/date last played/etc has been changed from being re-uploaded to the ipod? This would save a lot of time when syncing the library.

Thanks!
As mentioned, you can disable any options to write playback stats to files.

Quote from: santosh.s on
Hi musicmusic, I recently started using this plugin for syncing a latest ipod classic (160Gb) model, to me it looks like the best iTunes alternative!

While sending a list of songs to iPod, it seems ALL files are transcoded to a temporary location first, and deleted at the end. When the list is huge and/or if ALAC encoder (using ffmpeg) is used, it needs a large amount of temp space. Is there any way to automatically transcode songs one by one, processing each of them with options chosen, transferring to iPod and deleting immediately after that step, thereby overcoming the requirement of large disk space?
It will copy complete albums at a time - that's not the whole lot though. That allows it to run some processes such as ReplayGain scanning. Feel free to set your TMP/TEMP environment variables to point to somewhere you have space though.

Quote from: metalboy on
Does anyone else have problems with smart playlists not updating on iPhone? I have live updating checked but songs are not getting updated. Example I have a playlist that has a Rating of 5 and last played is not in last 60 days. I select my playlist and shuffle. I see 802 songs, play one, go back to playlist shuffle again, and I still have 802 songs. Also, I can do the same thing by rating one of them less than 5 and it still keeps it on the playlist. Can anyone else confirm this?
I tested a ratings playlist only recently and it did work. But if you are playing and rating a track directly from the smart playlist, it won't go away straight away. You have to do something like play a track elsewhere for it to go away.

Quote from: yuriks on
I've been trying for about 40 minutes but I just can't get relative artwork paths working.

This is what I have: $if($meta(CATEGORY),.\..\..\cover,cover)

The exact same script (but with .jpg at the end) works on the builtin reader so I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Are relative paths actually NOT supported? It seems to break if I add more than one \ to it. (.\.\ doesn't seems to work either, though .\ does)
Looks like a bug with ".." etc. that I fixed elsewhere but not here. Thanks for the report, I'll fix it for the next build.
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Reply #2538 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
It will copy complete albums at a time - that's not the whole lot though. That allows it to run some processes such as ReplayGain scanning. Feel free to set your TMP/TEMP environment variables to point to somewhere you have space though.

If it is an album at a time, then it should be no issue at all, and it will also enable scanning of album RG values. However, I had seen hundreds of temp songs which got automatically deleted as the sync'ing process finished. Hence my comments. Not to mention, my disk went out of space.

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Reply #2539 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: Tropican on
This is going to sound like an odd request, but is there any way we could get the option to apply DSPs on the transcode page? Things such as crossfeed, Dolby Headphone, etc. are designed especially for headphones and might be useful to have automagically with a foo_dop sync.
Of course it could be implemented, but wouldn't your use require you to transcode every track..?


Indeed it does. For those of us who rip to lossless, we have to transcode every track for the iPod anyway though, so it's not that big of a deal.

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Reply #2540 –
Quote from: santosh.s on
If it is an album at a time, then it should be no issue at all, and it will also enable scanning of album RG values. However, I had seen hundreds of temp songs which got automatically deleted as the sync'ing process finished. Hence my comments. Not to mention, my disk went out of space.
I tried with a few albums, but it worked as expected.

Does it happen consistently? Do all your tracks have album fields? (A present but empty album field might cause problems here).

If one track took particularly long to convert that also might delay things..

Also is it possible they were old files?
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Reply #2541 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: yuriks on
I've been trying for about 40 minutes but I just can't get relative artwork paths working.

This is what I have: $if($meta(CATEGORY),.\..\..\cover,cover)

The exact same script (but with .jpg at the end) works on the builtin reader so I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Are relative paths actually NOT supported? It seems to break if I add more than one \ to it. (.\.\ doesn't seems to work either, though .\ does)
Looks like a bug with ".." etc. that I fixed elsewhere but not here. Thanks for the report, I'll fix it for the next build.


I see. Thank you.

Great component, btw. It's actually one of the most important reasons why I still use an iPod!

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Reply #2542 –
musicmusic, I need to find answers to your questions by experimenting. For now, I can only say- no, all files didn't have album tag. It was a huge list and I did not see it getting stuck at any particular file. Once it ran out of disk space, I had to abort sync'ing which I did amicably by pressing cancel button, not by killing any process.

Just curious, what does the problem have to do with old files? How can it potentially be the culprit?

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Reply #2543 –
Quote from: santosh.s on
musicmusic, I need to find answers to your questions by experimenting. For now, I can only say- no, all files didn't have album tag. It was a huge list and I did not see it getting stuck at any particular file. Once it ran out of disk space, I had to abort sync'ing which I did amicably by pressing cancel button, not by killing any process.
I think there might be an issue for files without an album field at all, but I need to check this. If you want to check if any files have blank album fields though, $meta_test(album) will output 1 if a file has an album field present, so you could use that (in e.g. a playlist column) to look for any files that have a 1 which you wouldn't expect.

Quote from: santosh.s on
Just curious, what does the problem have to do with old files? How can it potentially be the culprit?
If they all definitely went away after the sync finished then no it wouldn't be.
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Reply #2544 –
Quote from: metalboy on
Quote from: Takaji on
Everytime I sync my music library to my ipod, any file with changes are re-uploaded to the ipod. This includes songs where the only thing that's changed is the playcount. Is there a way to prevent files where only the playcount/date last played/etc has been changed from being re-uploaded to the ipod? This would save a lot of time when syncing the library.

Thanks!


Do you happen to be using "write playback statistics to tag"? If you are then no, each time a song's tag is written (each time you play a song) the file itself is being changed and foo_dop is seeing the files as different as it should.

I would assume that musicmusic could fix this by having dop write the changed tag to the file but that would be almost like copying the file anyway. Correct me if I am wrong but I think it is working as it should.

If you are not using "write playback statistics to tag" then I have no idea why it may be doing this.


I would prefer to keep this option enabled as I like to see my playcount on my files when I'm using foobar on the computer. I don't want to write the playback statistics to a database, just in case that file is ever lost.
Assuming there is nothing I can do to fix my situation, perhaps a future version of iPod manager will have a feature that skips a file if only the playback statistics have changed?

Thanks for the help.

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Reply #2545 –
musicmusic: What do you think of implementing ability to apply mp3gain data while syncing? I think this would be a good idea, since the iPod EQ sucks really bad and i.e. using bassboosting EQ it will clip on almost anything.
Can't wait for a HD-AAC encoder :P

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Reply #2546 –
Is there a way to auto sync the (standard) playlists? For now I'm just manually deleting (in 'Manage Contents') and re-adding ('Send Playlists') to do so.

I've tried using the playlist field matching in the smart playlist settings, but it didn't work. I've tried the correct numbers first, and even tried 'is not 0' to test if it fetches anything.

I'm obviously missing something. How do you people sync playlists?

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Reply #2547 –
hi!

im planning to get the 160GB ipod. just have a few questions:

a) i have around 1TB of lossles (primary just FLAC, only few MP3's) music on my PC, can select the artist i want, convert them to MP3/AAC and send them over to my ipod then? i mean, that i can realy select a lot, so that the PC is working over night, because i think it will take a couple of days to convert all those lossless things to lossy. and how does it run?

b) i have some high-res covers and some even in pngs. on such a small display i think i dont need them that big, will foo_dop crop them down so ill save space on my ipod? and will the covers saved in folders or in tags? (i dont like the tag thing because it wastes too much space and doesnt really have a fb2k support)

c) i actually listen also to some classical stuff (well, around 10-20% the music i listen to is classical). often these records were recorded very quiet to inlude the whole dynamic (as you probably already know). but ive heard that the iPods (at least over here in europe) have some kind of volume limit? does this make classical "unhearable" because its too quiet? i wanna hear it in the volume as it would be in real (so, some symphonies, specially the beethoven ones, are really loud) well, not actually as loud as real at such symphonies, taht would be sometimes over 110dB, but yeah, loud.

d) is the sound good? have just heard the normal ipods which IMO sounds shitty, but ive readt that the classic ones, specially the 160gb one, has another sound-processor in it.


would be really nice if you could help me

seeya

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Reply #2548 –
a) It'll run fine, but I'd run it in per-folder or night-long  steps.
b) You can batch-convert the art using irfanview or xnview (which are free and lightweight), choosing desired size and quality.
c) Volume is enough for classical, it's the rave (or whatever) they complain.
d) Technically, 5G has the Wolfson DAC, which is great, and 6G has the Cirrus Logic DAC, which is much cheaper. Yet most people find that 6G sounds better. In any case, if you got picky ears, your iPod needs to be modded. You can buy a modded one, such as iMod, or (if you're a geek) you can do it yourself .

If you don't like the idea of modding (and still have those ears) your only option is Sony. But then you won't be able to use the foo_dop, as musicmusic doesn't have time to write an universal plugin. Like many here, I use 6g only because of the foobar + foo_dop.

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Reply #2549 –
C). Volume in Europe is definately not high enough. For example when I listened to Audiobooks in the Railway or near a Street I did not understand a word. Same with Albums from the 70ies....
I had to buy an iPod from Australia.