foo_pod - Foobar2000 meets the iPod, iPod -> Foobar2000 0.8 Options

[falconfox]

Something wierd is happening...
foo_pod is able to delete songs, and check free space, but when i go to add songs to it, it shuts down foobar all together. i have a 3G ipod with the latest firmware (3-23-05 i think). i don't understand what is goign on, i have tried replacing the 3 foo_pod files , but that doesn't work. also itunes is able to add songs. any ideas of what is going on?

[.zolder]

for what it's worth, i've had that about 2 times.. deleting all MP3's and playlists and re-adding them fixed the problem.

[falconfox]

for what it's worth, i've had that about 2 times.. deleting all MP3's and playlists and re-adding them fixed the problem.

worked like a charm

[falconfox]

for what it's worth, i've had that about 2 times.. deleting all MP3's and playlists and re-adding them fixed the problem.

worked like a charm

actually, now i am back to having the same problems, it just keeps shutting down

[Leroy Bodacious]

Sure - just select all the songs in the playlist, right click, and select Properties - see Total Size.  If you want to find the total size of an iPod playlist, load it into Foobar using the Load iPod Playlists as Tabs, select all the songs, and view the Properties.

Thanks you. That does it; however, is it possible to get this value to show up on the status bar for the currently selected playlist?

This post has been edited by Leroy Bodacious: Apr 10 2005, 19:11

[jkwarras]

@Aero:

Could it be possible to make available the Ottofill feature in the right-click context menu? I think it'll be nice to have it in order to use it right in the album list panel or Playlist Tree, I mean, filling the IPS from the selected node in the Album List or PT.

[Aero]

Thanks you. That does it; however, is it possible to get this value to show up on the status bar for the currently selected playlist?

I don't believe it is possible with the standard Foobar GUI, but maybe it can be done with something like foo_columns_ui?

[Aero]

Could it be possible to make available the Ottofill feature in the right-click context menu? I think it'll be nice to have it in order to use it right in the album list panel or Playlist Tree, I mean, filling the IPS from the selected node in the Album List or PT.

Am I understanding correctly that you want to have another option in the OttoFill to use the currently selected songs to fill the iPod (Shuffle) - in addition to Current Playlist, All Playlists, and From iPod?

Or do you want a context menu that automatically chooses the Current Playlist source in the OttoFill window?

Or both? Neither is going to be hard to add, although I will have to squeeze another item onto the GUI for the first option.

[jkwarras]

Am I understanding correctly that you want to have another option in the OttoFill to use the currently selected songs to fill the iPod (Shuffle) - in addition to Current Playlist, All Playlists, and From iPod?

Not exactly

In fact, it's more like the 'send files to ipod' in the foo_pod right-click context menu. That's what i normally use for my Ipod, I right-click on a node in the Album list (or in Playlist Tree) panel and send it directly to the ipod without having to select or send to a playlist. It'll be nice to have the same option for the IPS but with Ottofill, so not all the node will be sent, but a random selection.

i.e. I right-click in the Album list panel the node (tree) 'by Artist>Nirvana' without sending the content of the node to a playlist, and then 'foo_pod>Ottofill'. it should fill the IPS with random slection of the Nirvana node.

Hope it's more clear now

Thanks for this great plugin.

This post has been edited by jkwarras: Apr 11 2005, 09:26

[.zolder]

Thanks you. That does it; however, is it possible to get this value to show up on the status bar for the currently selected playlist?

I don't believe it is possible with the standard Foobar GUI, but maybe it can be done with something like foo_columns_ui?

unfortunately, no

[Leroy Bodacious]

I don't know if this is a bug or it's by design. When I choose Ignore Active Playlist for the database view (the playlist I'm using with Albumlist) and I sync all playlists, the playlist is not ignored. Every other playlist works fine.

[Aero]

In fact, it's more like the 'send files to ipod' in the foo_pod  right-click context menu. That's what i normally use for my Ipod, I right-click on a node in the Album list (or in Playlist Tree) panel and send it directly to the ipod without having to select or send to a playlist. It'll be nice to have the same option for the IPS but with Ottofill, so not all the node will be sent, but a random selection.

i.e. I right-click in the Album list panel the node (tree) 'by Artist>Nirvana' without sending the content of the node to a playlist, and then 'foo_pod>Ottofill'. it should fill the IPS with random slection of the Nirvana node.

Ok, so that does sound like it is using selected files (at least internally in Foobar).

If you can right click on your Album list (I don't use foo_columns_ui, so I don't know exactly what you are talking about), and there is the foo_pod menu to send selected songs to the iPod, then that is using the Foobar playlist selection.

[Aero]

I don't know if this is a bug or it's by design. When I choose Ignore Active Playlist for the database view (the playlist I'm using with Albumlist) and I sync all playlists, the playlist is not ignored. Every other playlist works fine.

This is with foo_columns_ui, I assume. I'm not sure how they are doing the "Database view", but it is probably some random playlist name or it isn't a real Foobar playlist.

[Aero]

BTW, before I forget, I'll be out of the country (and in Europe - UK & Italy) for a couple of weeks, starting on Thursday. So there won't be any foo_pod updates for awhile and I likely won't be monitoring this forum.

If you find a bug or have a question, try sending it to foopod(at)argz.com so I don't miss it.

[jkwarras]

If you can right click on your Album list (I don't use foo_columns_ui, so I don't know exactly what you are talking about), and there is the foo_pod menu to send selected songs to the iPod, then that is using the Foobar playlist selection.

Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing. If you want you can check it without using Column UI, just use Album List (it can be use as a window from the component menu).

[infrared]

BTW, before I forget, I'll be out of the country (and in Europe - UK & Italy) for a couple of weeks, starting on Thursday.  So there won't be any foo_pod updates for awhile and I likely won't be monitoring this forum.

Have a great time. Hopefully it's a vacation

[nologin]

Anyone tried foo_alac? it seems it works with foo_pod. Great~

[Aero]

  Anyone tried foo_alac? it seems it works with foo_pod. Great~

Cool! I was hoping that someone would write a ALAC component, and it looks like Case did!


infrared - Yep, I'm going to travel all over in Europe, taking pictures of my iPod.

[Aero]

If anyone feels up for a test, I did some playing around and recompiled foo_pod using the Visual Studio .NET 2003, instead of Visual Studio 6.

There shouldn't be any functional change, but at least on my computer, foo_pod feels noticably faster when compiled with VS 2003. I also have a few little fixes in there, like the Idle priority setting for the transcoder and a possible fix for the iPod Browse Menu problem (where the songs in an album would previously be out of order).

Download foo_pod 0.9.9h_VS2003_Test

[mobyduck]

BTW, before I forget, I'll be out of the country (and in Europe - UK & Italy) for a couple of weeks, starting on Thursday.

Too late, I'm afraid, but if you pass by Genoa and have time for a couple of beers (or simply need some info), just let me know.

Enjoy your stay!

Alessandro

[drbeachboy]

Is it possible to transcode to m4a directly from an audio CD using foo_pod? I tried this last night without success. So, either my settings were incorrect or it is not possible. Your help is most appreciated.

Thanks!

[Aero]

Is it possible to transcode to m4a directly from an audio CD using foo_pod? I tried this last night without success. So, either my settings were incorrect or it is not possible. Your help is most appreciated.

I believe CDDA tracks are handled differently inside of Foobar, and if I rememeber correctly, it doesn't work to transfer them directly to the iPod. I'll take a look at it after I get back from vacation.

[ReD-BaRoN]

Hi,

I recently started using foo_pod and I'm psyched about it, but I'm having some trouble.

I tried to transcode a playlist, and foo_pod says it's complete, but I don't see the songs on my iPod. However, when I look at the disk via Windows explorer, I see the files with weird names, e.g. e17b6ff9004ae3153.mp3.

I used the customer encoder setting, so I must have screwed something up.

When I try to use one of foo_pods built in transcoders, iPod complains that the file is already transcoded and on the iPod. When I load the iPod list into foo_bar, those previously transcoded files don't show up, so I can't delete them.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Storm]

Looks to me like it didn't store the transcoded songs in the iPod database at all, maybe it has something to do with your custom transcoder.

[ReD-BaRoN]

Looks to me like it didn't store the transcoded songs in the iPod database at all, maybe it has something to do with your custom transcoder.

I'm not sure how it all works, but is it possible for foo_pod to store the song (with the weird files name (which I'm assuming is the temporty name)) on the drive, but not put it into the iTunesDB, thus not showing up on the iPod, or the imported playlist in foobar? This is what I presumed happened. If so, how do I get rid of the incorrect files? If I just delete them through windows explorer, will foo_pod know they're gone, because is seems to have some state of the transcoded file, i.e. it knows it's on the iPod and won't transcode it to another format.

Thanks!