Rockbox has now created firmware for the iPod that allows for gapless playback and other useful features.  This is good news for audiophiles like us, but will we be able to use foo_pod to transfer songs to an iPod with Rockbox firmware? Will the ReplayGain levels translate to SoundCheck?

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Rockbox has now created firmware for the iPod that allows for gapless playback and other useful features.  This is good news for audiophiles like us, but will we be able to use foo_pod to transfer songs to an iPod with Rockbox firmware? Will the ReplayGain levels translate to SoundCheck?

Rockbox doesn't read the iTunes database, so using foo_pod will work, but then, anything will work.  It also uses replaygain, not Soundcheck.

If you want to add files to Rockbox, I suggest using the "file copy" tool already in foobar, or just dragging them there in Explorer.

What about on the fly transcoding.  That's the most important feature I use.

Sorry to disappoint you, but I have no plans to update foo_pod to Foobar 0.9.  And as far as I know, Foobar 0.9 will incompatible with earlier components, so you will have to have Foobar 0.8.x in order to use foo_pod. 

Fortunately, Foobar 0.8 already has an ALAC decoder and I believe you could use Otto's iTunesEncoder script to losslessly transcode from FLAC -> ALAC, so there is no reason to wait for Foobar 0.9 to do what you are looking to do.


BTW, in case anyone is wondering, I was temporarily banned from posting on the Hydrogen Audio forums apparently because of my questioning of the availability of the 0.9 SDK.  I say apparently, because no one ever contacted me about the suspension, and the only thing I can find that could possibly be the cause is this post.  Anyway, that combined with other factors pretty much killed any desire to upgrade to Foobar 0.9.  Note that I am not planning on stopping foo_pod development, but it likely won't be focused on the changes necessary to make it run on Foobar 0.9.

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Well seeing as people are pretty angry with what I said, let me clarify.  Firstly, I respect Aero greatly, as he has done a lot for the community.  His plugin is fantastic, and is one of the many reasons use foobar2000.  I am not angry that foo_pod (seemingly) is not going to be ported to 0.9, but with the reasons for Aero's decision not to.

The ban has very little with my decision not to port foo_pod to Foobar 0.9.  I believe I alluded to the possibility of not porting foo_pod to 0.9 even before the ban.

Anyway, in order of priority, the reasons include:

1. Not having much time to work on foo_pod, in general.
2. No good reason (for me) to upgrade to Foobar 0.9.
3. The lack of a publically available SDK for 0.9.
4. Forum difficulties (i.e. the ban).


When Foobar 0.9 and SDK are released, if I find a good reason to upgrade and the 0.8->0.9 SDK changes are minimial, I might do the porting.  But like I said, I really don't see any good reason to upgrade to Foobar 0.9 at this point, and several good reasons not to.

The solution I came up with to enjoy both versions of foobar2000 (0.9 has some improvements I really like and better support for the Nero AAC encoder) is installing 0.8.3 on my USB flash drive and running it from there.

0.9 is installed on my computer's hard drive.

I still hope Aero reconsiders (or releases the source )

Are you saying that you've got v0.8.3 on a thumb-drive?

Sorry, but when I'm posting the previous post was not to see (it was post at the same time).

It is absolutely possible.

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if this is true, he probably wouldn't care if he released the source. The only person i know who might have a chance of contacting him is Otto.

@ Otto : lcan you look into contacting Aero

Quote from: Mike Giacomelli on 2006-05-09 02:50:05

Quote from: antoniost on 2006-05-09 02:35:31

Rockbox has now created firmware for the iPod that allows for gapless playback and other useful features.  This is good news for audiophiles like us, but will we be able to use foo_pod to transfer songs to an iPod with Rockbox firmware? Will the ReplayGain levels translate to SoundCheck?

Rockbox doesn't read the iTunes database, so using foo_pod will work, but then, anything will work.  It also uses replaygain, not Soundcheck.

If you want to add files to Rockbox, I suggest using the "file copy" tool already in foobar, or just dragging them there in Explorer.

What about on the fly transcoding.  That's the most important feature I use.

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if this is true, he probably wouldn't care if he released the source. The only person i know who might have a chance of contacting him is Otto.

@ Otto : lcan you look into contacting Aero

Right guys, its time I stepped in.  There are 'gracious' people here who appreciate that foo_pod is a labour of love, and is maintained on a purely altruistic basis. It seems however that there aren't that many 'grateful' people. Aero told me (in confidence I suppose - sorry Aero), when I sent him a donation by Paypal that it was the second one he had ever received. That stinks people. I think Aero gets plenty of kudos and appreciates that we dig what he does for us, but I think its time to adopt a 'money talks' attitude. Nothing better than a bit of bribery to perhaps lean him towards the open source or v 0.9 thing. Everyone, as soon as you've seen this, donate $10 to him on paypal. Just do it - right now, come on. It's a small piece of change for his effort. Hell you'd pay 3 times that for anapod or Xplay, both of which are a pale imitation, as you know. He lost an ipod and expensive pair of cans on a plane (ok sounds like it was his fault), but with 2 paypal donations, he's still way down on the deal. Paypal details are in the foo_pod read me - get your wallets open !! ...

[...]but I don't use foo_pod very much anymore, because it has limitations. [...]

Quote from: drbeachboy on 2006-05-12 15:58:48

[...]but I don't use foo_pod very much anymore, because it has limitations. [...]

I am just looking for a good alternative to iTunes. foo_pod seemed to be nice since it integrates with my primary music player. Just out of curiosity, what do you use instead?

Chris

Quote from: schroeder on 2006-05-12 18:37:04

Quote from: drbeachboy on 2006-05-12 15:58:48

[...]but I don't use foo_pod very much anymore, because it has limitations. [...]

I am just looking for a good alternative to iTunes. foo_pod seemed to be nice since it integrates with my primary music player. Just out of curiosity, what do you use instead?

Chris

If I am already in foobar2000v0.8.3 (which is becoming more rare by the day), I will use foo_pod, but lately I generally just use iTunes. Other than Anapod, there aren't many alternatives.

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Quote from: schroeder on 2006-05-12 18:37:04

Quote from: drbeachboy on 2006-05-12 15:58:48

[...]but I don't use foo_pod very much anymore, because it has limitations. [...]

I am just looking for a good alternative to iTunes. foo_pod seemed to be nice since it integrates with my primary music player. Just out of curiosity, what do you use instead?

Chris

If I am already in foobar2000v0.8.3 (which is becoming more rare by the day), I will use foo_pod, but lately I generally just use iTunes. Other than Anapod, there aren't many alternatives.

If only someone could convice Apple to add on the fly transcoding into iTunes, we'd be all set!

I've put the dll in my components folder, but when I start foobar I get a message: " Failed to load DLL: foo_pod.dll, reason: Unable to load DLL.".  Any idea why?