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Reply #2600 –
Thank you musicmusic for this great plugin and saving us all the hassle of using itunes. My question is, because compilation albums are often compiled by someone (e.g. a DJ), is it possible to have compilation albums using the metatag IPOD_COMPILATION=1 sorted on the iPod under an album artist tag? Or, is it possible to make a tag mapping that will show the artist name of who compiled the album under the regular artist structure of the iPod that will map to the compilation album under compilations?

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Reply #2601 –
Quote from: Xenion on
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
Do you still have a file that wouldn't play?

Quote from: rossoneri on
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.[...]
Did you download the latest version of the component from my website ?

Quote from: mstram24 on
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 !!!
Is it a Nano 5G? You will need at least the iPod driver installed if it is (see requirements on the wiki). Paste/send the output from the console (View/Console) if it still doesn't work.

Quote from: shiphtfour on
Thank you musicmusic for this great plugin and saving us all the hassle of using itunes. My question is, because compilation albums are often compiled by someone (e.g. a DJ), is it possible to have compilation albums using the metatag IPOD_COMPILATION=1 sorted on the iPod under an album artist tag? Or, is it possible to make a tag mapping that will show the artist name of who compiled the album under the regular artist structure of the iPod that will map to the compilation album under compilations?
You can do the following, if it's what you want: http://yuo.be/wiki/dop:start#how_can_i_mak...f_track_artists
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Reply #2602 –
I get the follow error when I go to View > iPod devices
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Error reading iTunesDB: Object not found


I have only installed iTunes for the drivers for another program I used. That program didn't work so I uninstalled all iTunes associated applications.


Any suggestions how to get the iPod detected/working in fb2k? I rather install as less iTunes crap or the likes as possible. I rather not have my computer go trough a chemo again after installing the cancer called iTunes.

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Reply #2603 –
What model is it?

The error might be normal if the device is blank (i.e. it doesn't have a database yet, you'd need to add something to it).

(Make sure you have the required dependencies also if you don't have iTunes)
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Reply #2604 –
original message;
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.

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. its all good now, all i had to do was to install iTunes once..which installed a bunch of apple software...and then foo_dop works well.. i was able to uninstall iTunes after that..and foo_dop still works. thanks for being British and thanks for maintaining this very useful component.

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Reply #2605 –
Version 0.6.6.4 released. See change log for details.

Again some backend changes which will have some nice effects (for example any files sent to the device are automatically added to the metadata cache, so the metadata doesn't have to be read next time). Do please post back though if you encounter any issues.
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Reply #2606 –
Just wanted to say thanks.  To think I've been (barely) using iTunes for windows to put songs on my ipod for awhile now.  Which would freeze up and mess up my ipod constantly.  Your component works great on my "Ipod Photo" (4G?)

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Reply #2607 –
WMA? whats the best way to deal with WMA files when we want to transfer them to an iPod?  i have tons of those WMA files in foobar but they wont transfer properly to my ipod.  I tried to enable the option to convert files in foo_dop while transferring to the ipod but i get an error message that the encoder failed.  i dont want to convert them using foobar  before hand because i think that this would mess up my playlists ..since songxyz.wma is not equal to songxyz.mp3...foobar might not be able to associate them to the correct playlist automatically. so i dont want to risk it right now....How do you guys deal with WMA files? and is it normal to receive the error message im getting?

plz Help!

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Reply #2608 –
Quote from: baroughter on
Just wanted to say thanks.  To think I've been (barely) using iTunes for windows to put songs on my ipod for awhile now.  Which would freeze up and mess up my ipod constantly.  Your component works great on my "Ipod Photo" (4G?)
You're welcome  It is good to know it is still working OK there too, there are a lot of models to maintain support for these days..

Quote from: mstram24 on
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Make sure you've downloaded the Nero codec and pointed foo_dop to it in its preferences. Otherwise, post the exact error you get.
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Reply #2609 –
Quote from: mstram24 on
WMA? whats the best way to deal with WMA files when we want to transfer them to an iPod?


I am sure someone will correct me if I am mistaken, but I didn't think the iPod was capable of playing WMA files.

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Reply #2610 –
Correct. You will need to transcode these files.

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Reply #2611 –
I figured I'd post the code I came up with to organize albums that aren't necessarily compilations. Basically, if you don't want the album sorted as a compilation, but the artist and album artist tagz don't match for certain tracks (i.e. there are a couple tracks on the album that are by a different artist, it will write the title tag as "title - artist" while still sorting the whole album under the single album artist tag. Perhaps this will be useful to someone else.

Artist metadata code:
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$if(%IPOD_COMPILATION%,%artist%,$if($stricmp(%album artist%,%artist%),%artist%,%album artist%))

Title metadata code:
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$if(%IPOD_COMPILATION%,%title%,$if($stricmp(%album artist%,%artist%),%title%,%title% - %artist%))

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Reply #2612 –
hi.
the plugin works fine on my ipod classical 5g 160GB. but i have some questions.

a) i have often readt that ipods freezes and you have to reset them. does that also mean, that all your database will be ereased? that wouldnt be nice, because i only have FLAC on my PC and to convert the 1TB FLACS to 160GB MP3 is not that funny and takes a bit f time. and well, my question now: whats the best way to backup the files, if the database will be ereased if after such a reset? copy paste of the whole ipod folder? or synchronize with a external HDD via foobar? (wll, then i had to buy one, dont have 160GB space left-over)

b) ive readt that ipod has a lyrics-support if there are lyrics in the lyrics tag. well, i have the lyrics panel for fb2k. is there a possibility, that i import the whole ipod lib into foobar, let every song playback 5-10 secounds (btw, how is that possible?) so the plugin can download the lyrics (well, another question: will lrc-sourced lyrics show the timestamps or does the ipod ignores them, or does he even sync the lyrics then?) and write it to the lyrics tag? or whats the way to work this out

c) is there a possibility to use geniusmix with foobar? when all the files are on the ipod, i could open the ipod in itunes and he should do genius mixes out of it, or do i have to sync them or is it simply not possible to attach this to the foobar-imported files?

d) i found out, that ipod doesnt seems to sort the albums after date, but i prefer it hat way. probably the ipod doesnt support this (but if so, please tell me how), so i thought i could retag the album tag with %YEAR% - %ALBUM%, so the year is the thing he sorts. and also i want to edit some genre tags. is it ok, to import the ipod via foobar and edit the tags in there as i normaly do (right-click->properties)? or will it damage the database in some way?

e) how can i remove that A Perfect Circle (e.g.) is listed under A and not under P? dont like it the way the ipod does it, same way with The probably.

f) why is the bass distorted when i have selected no-eq via my headphones (sennheiser CX300II; i know, not the best, but i dont have the money right now for a shure)? i selected the EQ jazz which sounds best in my ears, but i wonder why the bass is distorted when i have slected no-eq. (or is it possible that the MP3 V5 causes this? you should really edit this in your FAQ musicmsic, MP3 V5 sounds realy terrible in my ears, i have putted up to V2 (the music i listen quiet often to) and V3 (the normal music).

g) what do i have to do when i wanna have my ipod-played tracks scrobbled to last.fm? already have the lastest last.fm plugin.

but a very nice plugin, thanks for that  think it wouldnt be that much fun to import 1GB of FLAC into itunes and convert it with it to the ipod

seeya

dennis

ps: sorry for my bad english...

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Reply #2613 –
a) If for some reason it freezes up, you can restart it (should be hold Menu + Middle buttons). That won't erase anything, expect maybe recent plays/ratings.

If you restore it using iTunes, that will erase everything yes, but normally you shouldn't need to do that.

c) No, sorry.

d) If you edit them directly on the iPod, follow it up with 'Update metadata' in the shortcut menu. You can using the album remapping in preferences if you want it to display the date (it is normally %date% though).

e) Disable "Ignore leading 'The' and 'A' ...." in the database preferences page under sorting. Again you will need to follow that up with 'Update metadata' on all tracks.

f) Are you on maximum volume? Did you use ReplayGain/SoundCheck?

g) Install Florian's version of foo_audioscrobbler,  and then there will be an option in its preferences to enable.
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Reply #2614 –
i see that playcount statistics are modified whenever i synchronize. such that songs that were played in my ipod are counted into foobar. is there a way to remove this ?

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Reply #2615 –
That's up to playback statistics - toggling "Library/Playback Statistics/Monitor played tracks" in the main menu before and after each sync was supposed to do it.
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Reply #2616 –
original post;

WMA? whats the best way to deal with WMA files when we want to transfer them to an iPod? i have tons of those WMA files in foobar but they wont transfer properly to my ipod. I tried to enable the option to convert files in foo_dop while transferring to the ipod but i get an error message that the encoder failed. i dont want to convert them using foobar before hand because i think that this would mess up my playlists ..since songxyz.wma is not equal to songxyz.mp3...foobar might not be able to associate them to the correct playlist automatically. so i dont want to risk it right now....How do you guys deal with WMA files? and is it normal to receive the error message im getting?

plz Help!



The error message i get is;  (it's mostly for WMA files..but sometimes OGG vorbis wont work either)

Failed to add file to iPod: conversion failed - failed to start encoder process -  The system cannot find the file specified

here's a screenshot of my foo_dop config in the converter tab

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Reply #2617 –
Is there no way to make files sent with this plugin to the iPod sort under podcasts? Like a %PODCAST%=1 tag or something? I just want to be able to send podcast mp3 files downloaded with foo_podcatcher to my iPod and have them sorted under the podcasts menu group.
 

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Reply #2618 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
e) Disable "Ignore leading 'The' and 'A' ...." in the database preferences page under sorting. Again you will need to follow that up with 'Update metadata' on all tracks.


well, i have a problem now. it worked with the beatles (which ive added after the checkbox), but now is A Perfect Circle listed under A und under P, so i have 2 entries for the same band, and both have the same albums (but i only added them once).
so, what shall i do? erease them?

seeya

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Reply #2619 –
Quote from: mstram24 on
The error message i get is;  (it's mostly for WMA files..but sometimes OGG vorbis wont work either)

Failed to add file to iPod: conversion failed - failed to start encoder process -  The system cannot find the file specified

here's a screenshot of my foo_dop config in the converter tab
Then you need to do what I said..

Quote from: shiphtfour on
Is there no way to make files sent with this plugin to the iPod sort under podcasts? Like a %PODCAST%=1 tag or something? I just want to be able to send podcast mp3 files downloaded with foo_podcatcher to my iPod and have them sorted under the podcasts menu group.
No, sorry.

Quote from: mundschuss on
well, i have a problem now. it worked with the beatles (which ive added after the checkbox), but now is A Perfect Circle listed under A und under P, so i have 2 entries for the same band, and both have the same albums (but i only added them once).
so, what shall i do? erease them?
Do load library, select everything and run 'iPod/Update metadata'.
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Reply #2620 –
ok, thanks will try this.
tonight there was a strange error, putted the ipod on the PC before i went to a party and foobar should do around 5days of music on it. well, not its 12am and there was no progress bar in foobar, so i thought he was finished and selected to eject the ipod (btw, whats the comment for this in columnsui, because i want to create a button instead of going trough the menu all the time) and foobar said that i can now remove my ipod safely.
but when i looked at the ipod, he was completly dark and i wasnt able to turn him on again, also when i plugged him into the PC came the windows plop when you plugin a usb-drive, but the explorer didnt show the ipod up.
well, i resetted the ipod via menu and enter holding and now he works fine again. i already did "find orphanded tracks" but he havent found something.
just wanted to report this

seeya

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Reply #2621 –
how do we build playlists with foo_dop? i can import playlists from foobar to the ipod but then the results will not be organized. for instance if i send 2 playlists "rock" and "classical" , all songs from both will get into the ipod but they're all going to be mixed (organized by artist names) so that i lose the originating playlists.  help plz!

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Reply #2622 –
Quote from: mundschuss on
ok, thanks will try this.
tonight there was a strange error, putted the ipod on the PC before i went to a party and foobar should do around 5days of music on it. well, not its 12am and there was no progress bar in foobar, so i thought he was finished and selected to eject the ipod (btw, whats the comment for this in columnsui, because i want to create a button instead of going trough the menu all the time) and foobar said that i can now remove my ipod safely.
but when i looked at the ipod, he was completly dark and i wasnt able to turn him on again, also when i plugged him into the PC came the windows plop when you plugin a usb-drive, but the explorer didnt show the ipod up.
well, i resetted the ipod via menu and enter holding and now he works fine again. i already did "find orphanded tracks" but he havent found something.
just wanted to report this

seeya
No idea what happened, maybe it overheated, maybe it got stuck in deep sleep, maybe it got confused by the new year, who knows... Just watch out in case it happens again.

For Columns UI, right click on the buttons toolbar, select options and you can add the button from there (you might just want to add it as a text button).

Quote from: mstram24 on
how do we build playlists with foo_dop? i can import playlists from foobar to the ipod but then the results will not be organized. for instance if i send 2 playlists "rock" and "classical" , all songs from both will get into the ipod but they're all going to be mixed (organized by artist names) so that i lose the originating playlists.
Use File/iPod/Sync (or Send playlists) instead.
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Reply #2623 –
I have a problem using the ipod manager to scrobble my played songs. I found a hint on this last.fm page to rewrite my database. but every time i hit that menubutton nothing happens. The console says the following lines after the first rewrite.

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Audioscrobbler: Importing played tracks from Kujtas iPod
Audioscrobbler: Finished importing 0 tracks.
iPod manager: Warning - SQL post process command failed: duplicate column name: rental_expired
Audioscrobbler: Handshake successful.
iPod manager: Generate SQLite database completed in 0.2527278 s


I also tried to reset my ipod with itunes but the post process command is still failing.

I have a iPod Nano 5g and no idea what's happening. can anybody help me?

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Reply #2624 –
The warning doesn't matter.

Play a track on the device in full. Then when you connect the iPod to the PC (make sure iTunes doesn't open) there should be a "Play Counts" file on the device in iPod_Control\iTunes. Then if you do a rewrite, it should be picked up (and the Play Counts file deleted).

If it still doesn't work then post back..
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