Does anyone know of a reason why you would not want Enable Disk Mode enabled?

If you use iTunes for your syncing, and have Disk Mode enabled, then you have to manually eject the thing after the sync is done to be able to safely disconnect it. So I leave mine not enabled, since generally all I want to do is sync the thing. Of course, I'm not using foo_pod yet as I'm not yet fully comfortable with foobar as my music library system. Still working on it though.

But if you have iTunes installed, then you will have the iPodService installed, and just leaving Disk Mode enabled in iTunes is probably a requirement.

Thank you Aero. You rule my socks!

I must say, as a person who purchased XPlay (back when HFS+ iPods were the only thing around), foo_pod rocks.  The eject/mount feature works perfectly - something Xplay hasn't been able to do in 2 years.

I have a firewire CF card reader that is usually identified on my computer as the J: drive, and my iPod connected is the K: drive. 

If I attempt to manipulate the (foo_pod) playlist  (right-click, for example) and there is no card in the drive, I get an error "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive J:"  There are 3 buttons - Cancel, Try Again and Continue.  Choosing either "Cancel" or "Continue", I get the error a second time, and then it wil go away, and I can perform the action.  Clicking "Try again" repeatedly gives the same error message. 

If there is a card in the drive, I do not get this error.

Loving the plugin, Aero. Unfortunately, the latest version crashes when I try to access the foo_pod preferences, either through the preferences menu or directly through the Components --> foo_pod menu. I'll PM you the log.

Also, I was wondering whether it was in the plans to allow the user to define custom TAGZ strings for artist/title/album.

function OnAddFileToDB(file)
  if file.GetGenre() == "Blues" then
    file.SetArtist("%tracknumber% - %_filename%")
    file.SetAlbum("%comment%")
  end
end

Version 0.4 is now available.

More good stuff in the new version.  Most significantly is a iTunes-like Sync Playlist feature, which will add/remove files from the iPod so that it matches the current playlist.

Ok, Sync didn't work for me.  I loaded the iPod playlist into Foobar, then just as a test I immediately did a Sync.  It wiped iPod clean (not just the db, it deleted all files).

Database was enabled in Foobar.  (Are the iPod-resident files inserted there?)

I had previously set the playlist for foo_pod to "iPod".  It is still set this way.

Also, fwiw, I am running the foo_tunes UI.

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Ok, Sync didn't work for me.  I loaded the iPod playlist into Foobar, then just as a test I immediately did a Sync.  It wiped iPod clean (not just the db, it deleted all files).

Database was enabled in Foobar.  (Are the iPod-resident files inserted there?)

I had previously set the playlist for foo_pod to "iPod".  It is still set this way.

Also, fwiw, I am running the foo_tunes UI.

That is sort of a bug, but also sort of "as designed".  The problem is that you attempted to sync the files that were already on the iPod, and foo_pod's transfer function is designed to avoid copying files from the iPod to the same iPod.

When you synced the iPod playlist, it looked to foo_pod as you were syncing an empty playlist, so it did the correct thing and delete all files on the iPod so that it matched the playlist. 

Granted, that is not an expected or good behavior, so I will fix this in the next version.  Thanks for the report and sorry about wiping your iPod! :/

Is the foo_pod source code available ?

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Is the foo_pod source code available ?

Not currently.  foo_pod is still going through major internal revisions, so it wouldn't be very useful to release the source code yet.

But the source code for iPodDB (the real guts of foo_pod) is available at http://otto.homedns.org:8888/iTunes/iPodDB.zip or I can provide a copy.  As I have been adding features to foo_pod, I have been making improvements to iPodDB and sending the changes back to Otto42.

It seems the link (Otto) is broken ....
BTW will foo_pod source code be available in the future?

* Changed the logic in detecting the iPod drive, so it should be more reliable now.

I am slowly building a repro scenario for the "iPod is wiped" situation I've run into several times.

This morning doing a sync with the latest foo_pod I hit abort.  I think restarted the sync.  At the end, foo_pod thought the db was fine.  I cleared the playlist and reloaded, and everything looked good.  I used RealPlayer as well, just to sanity check.  Everything ok there as well.

But the player itself thinks everything as been wiped.  Oddly, there are two playlists on the device.  On-the-go, as expected.  And a blank pl just above On-the-go.

Maybe I could send you the db to check out?

EDIT: also should have noted that once it gets into this mode, iTunes can no longer see it.  iPodService sees it (given that some of the data I think you rely on from there is available in foo_pod, such as the "Owner Name").

Great plugin! 
But I really hope you add a feature to create playlists on the iPod as well. That would be the greatest...

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