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Reply #475 –
I'm getting I/O errors every time I try to get gapless information on files I ripped myself.  I downloaded a few files and they set gapless just fine.  It seems to have something to do with the way EAC/LAME tags my files.  If I rip a track to wav and then convert and tag it using foobar the I/O errors go away.

It seems to be like this for my entire collection, which were all ripped using EAC and encoded with LAME 3.97 -V 2 --vbr-new.

I can send a few files for analysis if you'd like...pm me.

Quote from: musicmusic on
Is there something you want to know from the source?


I don't think it's so much that anyone needs to know anything from the source as the reason foo_dop is needed in the first place.  The author of the previous ipod plugin kinda disappeared off the face of the earth without releasing source or giving someone else the reigns.  If for some reason you stopped developing foo_dop or lost interest in foobar entirely, the next person would have to start over from scratch.

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Reply #476 –
Now I'm 99% of the cause.  If id3v2 tags are padded with blank space, as per the EAC option, the resulting tag can't be parsed by foo_dop's gapless scanner.

I encoded five files from a CD.  The first 3 had the padding option off, and the final 2 had the option on.  After attempting to scan all five files for gapless information, the first three scanned correctly, and the last two gave an I/O error.

I was correct after all.

The "Rebuild MP3 Stream" in foobar appears to fix the files so they can be scanned.

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Reply #477 –
Quote from: HeavensBlade23 on
Now I'm 99% of the cause.  If id3v2 tags are padded with blank space, as per the EAC option, the resulting tag can't be parsed by foo_dop's gapless scanner.

I encoded five files from a CD.  The first 3 had the padding option off, and the final 2 had the option on.  After attempting to scan all five files for gapless information, the first three scanned correctly, and the last two gave an I/O error.

I was correct after all.

The "Rebuild MP3 Stream" in foobar appears to fix the files so they can be scanned.

The component assumes that the leading id3v2 tag (if any) is the first thing in the file, and the mpeg data follows it immediately.

I did see a similar file I had already. Null/zero padding before the id3v2 tag. I just assumed it was a dud file and that id3v2 had some better solution for padding.

I will make it skip any leading null padding for next version (and double check what EAC is doing, it maybe padding after the tag). Thanks for the report.
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Reply #478 –
Ok, I know everything I release is a TEST version, but the 0.4.2 really is an experimental version. This adds experimental support for album art for iPod Videos. Since it is now handling the ArtworkDB, a backup of the iPodControl\Artwork folder may be a good idea. There are some notes about the album art support on wiki, it would be a good idea to check that first.

Status of artwork support for other models: I need ArtworkDB samples from such models which have artwork added with iTunes only to add support for those models. I don't think I will be adding artwork support for any iPod that is connected by firewire unless I find a good way to identify which model they are.

Quote from: musicmusic on
Quote from: HeavensBlade23 on

Now I'm 99% of the cause.  If id3v2 tags are padded with blank space, as per the EAC option, the resulting tag can't be parsed by foo_dop's gapless scanner.

I encoded five files from a CD.  The first 3 had the padding option off, and the final 2 had the option on.  After attempting to scan all five files for gapless information, the first three scanned correctly, and the last two gave an I/O error.

I was correct after all.

The "Rebuild MP3 Stream" in foobar appears to fix the files so they can be scanned.

The component assumes that the leading id3v2 tag (if any) is the first thing in the file, and the mpeg data follows it immediately.

I did see a similar file I had already. Null/zero padding before the id3v2 tag. I just assumed it was a dud file and that id3v2 had some better solution for padding.

I will make it skip any leading null padding for next version (and double check what EAC is doing, it maybe padding after the tag). Thanks for the report.

I checked and as sense would dictate EAC puts the zero padding after the id3v2 tag. The file I had had id3v2 tag removed but still had padding.. It should be fixed in 0.4.2.
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Reply #479 –
I've successfully used foo_dop to convert and transfer my entire Flac collection to my iPod, with album art.

The new 0.4.2 version works perfectly. All that's missing is podcast support in foobar, and I can finally have no regrets ditching iTunes.

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Reply #480 –
Well thanks musicmusic, this IS complete for me now. Thanks foryour continued hard work!

The album art is working great!

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Reply #481 –
Quote from: PokéParadox on
Well thanks musicmusic, this IS complete for me now. Thanks foryour continued hard work!

The album art is working great!


Agreed, thank you for all the hard work on this!

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Reply #482 –
musicmusic, I would really love to see album art working for iPod Nano. Perhaps I could give you ArtworkDB sample but I hate iTunes so much, that I don't even want to install it just for this  However, if you still need it I guess I can make an exception. Let me know.

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Reply #483 –
Quote from: Blankwire on
I've successfully used foo_dop to convert and transfer my entire Flac collection to my iPod, with album art.
Nice

Quote from: PokéParadox on
Well thanks musicmusic, this IS complete for me now. Thanks foryour continued hard work!

The album art is working great!
You're welcome

Quote from: jclim00 on
Agreed, thank you for all the hard work on this!
Also welcome

Quote from: elishnevsky on
musicmusic, I would really love to see album art working for iPod Nano. Perhaps I could give you ArtworkDB sample but I hate iTunes so much, that I don't even want to install it just for this  However, if you still need it I guess I can make an exception. Let me know.
I have Nano 2G sample now. Actually I found that other info I needed elsewhere on the internet so I'm good now  Thanks for the offer though
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Reply #484 –
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musicmusic, I would really love to see album art working for iPod Nano. Perhaps I could give you ArtworkDB sample but I hate iTunes so much, that I don't even want to install it just for this smile.gif However, if you still need it I guess I can make an exception. Let me know.


That's a sacrifice no Windows user should have to make. 

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Reply #485 –
Ok, I do need some more info about ArtworkDB:

Can Nano/Nano 2G/Color/Photo owners tell me where the ArtworkDB is stored on your iPod? It should be either iPod_Control\Artwork or iPod_Control\iTunes.

Thanks!
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Reply #486 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Can Nano/Nano 2G/Color/Photo owners tell me where the ArtworkDB is stored on your iPod? It should be either iPod_Control\Artwork or iPod_Control\iTunes.

On my Nano 2G, ArtworkDB is in iPod_Control\Artwork.

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Reply #487 –
I have a photo and a 1st gen nano. Both use iPod_Control\Artwork

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Reply #488 –
Ok, thanks for checking.

I released 0.4.3 TEST which extends the album art support to the Nano and Photo/Color (over USB connection only). I can't test these.. so they are untested. As before a backup of the Artwork folder would be a good idea.

Regarding a better way to identify iPod models (i.e. artwork for iPod Photo/Color over firewire), I did some digging and found there are basically two ways, one that will work on older iPods and one that will work on newer. The latter involes sending a SCSI Inquiry command to the iPod. To my surprise this works without admin privileges on Vista.  The same cannot be said of XP x64 edition, where it does need admin privileges.I would suspect the latter is probably true for XP and 2000 as well but I can't test.

Anyway, there is a button on the tools prefs page to view this info. Its not particularly interesting to read (its more useful for the actual component), main purpose is to check the command is working. It should work on iPods from 4G era and newer. The result should be some info in XML format about your iPod.
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Reply #489 –
Works on early iPod Photo 60GB.
Brilliant stuff musicmusic, thank you!

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Reply #490 –
just checked new version with my nano 4GB and a few albums...
... works like a charm 

a lot of thanks, musicmusic

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Reply #491 –
Anyone noticed anything weird with their Ipod screen after using this component. I haven't isolated it yet--but I think I've noticed something.

Today was the first time I tried the ipod component--and when I was finished, I noticed that there was about 3 pixels all the way around the display that weren't being "lit" even through the screen was on. I've never noticed this before.

I'm not saying it is this components problem/fault...I will certainly try to track it down further--just seemed curious. Anyone else noticed this?

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Reply #492 –
Does the link to the location of the latest test version work for you guys?
Wanna buy a monkey?
 

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Reply #494 –
Server is down unfortunately.. its night here so doubt anything will be done about it by my host until tomorrow.
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Reply #495 –
Quote from: musicmusic on
Server is down unfortunately.. its night here so doubt anything will be done about it by my host until tomorrow.


could you up load it somewhere else please?

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Reply #496 –
Well, its morning now.. and the site's up again.
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Reply #497 –
musicmusic, AlbumArt works fine with Nano 2G! Thank you soooooo much

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Reply #498 –
hmmm I am a bit confused about lyrics support... Does the iPod have to have a certain version firmware? (I have an iPod video)

Do the lyrics have to be formatted in a certain way? I have many songs with lyrics in the %lyrics% tag, but I can't seem to get any lyrics onto the iPod itself...

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Reply #499 –
Server is down again
Sorry for the bad english, I'm french .