Thank you it works!

Good idea... really want those features.
Are these possible in the future?

version 1.0.4 should have fixed this problem. If it is still a problem in the latest version let me know. The ... should be replaced with ___

I added automatically convert formats to the list of feature requests.

Sorry, cwbowron... There was a mistake...

I corrected...

Regarding playforsure mentioned a while back, I have a Samsung MP3 with playforsure. As already mentionted, when connected as a device, it doesn't have a drive letter. However, I can still drag and drop mp3s to the device using windows explorer and it will work fine. So I don't think playforsure forces you to use WMP or whatever to enforce DRM. Of course if the audio file is DRM'd, it probably wouldn't work when you drag and drop with windows explorer.

I have just bought a Samsung YP-Z5, however I can not get this plugin to work.

Putting in the path: "My Computer\Samsung YP-Z5\Media\Music\... etc"

When I transfer music I get no error messages, just a "device does not support long filenames please choose a shorter one", but no music actually appears on the player.

Does anyone have any hints as to how to get this working?

Cheers, Matt.

The plugin only works for mp3 players that operate as a USB Mass Storage Device. Those mp3 players will show up as a drive letter on my computer.

Someone has spoken about using this plugin with my device earlier in the thread. So maybe there is a way of forcing it to work?

I have found the solution for the Samsung YP-Z5.

Upgrade the firmware to version 2 and then set UMS (universal mass storage) to On the options, et voila you have a drive letter!

Thank You!

I made it up like this:


20 files eac folder (for better overview), folders starting with "01", files "1" to "20" in folder "01" (with your code there where only 19 files in the first folder).

It seems you don't use the %list-index% provided by foobar, because even if i select only a few files in the playlist, sendtodevice starts with %list_index% at "1"...

Hi there!
Thank you for this plugin! I'll try it as soon as I get my Max-Sin Touch 1 GB

Hello,
I am new to Foobar. Currently building my list of plugins and this one is a must. Especially thanks to the use of %list_index% wich makes it possible to keep the plalist order on the mp3player Thanks.

I regularly update my mp3 usb player (1Gb) with additional songs. Could there be an option to only copy new files ? Would be much faster.

+ 1 to the enhancement request for resampling the songs during tranfer to mp3 with the desired rate (I have many ape and flac songs on my pc which are not playable on the device)

thanks again,

As you're presumably on about windows media devices, activesync is likely to be the wrong way to go about it. Once the device is connected and you can browse its contents via explorer all that *should* be needed is a unc path to the storage memory on the card. I don't know if this works on wm devices prior to wm5, but it should on the latter.

Microsoft in their infinite wisdom seemed to have created a crippled filesystem handler for wm devices.I would check if this is fixed on wm5, but i'm not near a windows pc at the moment.

I would love this to work too. My smartphone has a 2gb card running tcpmp and it's a pain to have to use explorer to copy stuff. It's too much to expect the developer to have to deal with the activesync api to support it natively though.

Hi

Would it be possible to have the plugin automatically add a tag containing the date and time the file was sent to the mp3 player using the plugin?

This would be very useful for me because i have a large library but a small player (1 gb). It would enable me to make autoplaylists, sort them by last_sent date and only send the files which i haven't sent to my mp3 player in a long time.

(If there is any other way to do this, please do tell me)

That clears up the list of requests, other than the ability for foo_sendtodevice to automatically convert formats. I have not done much with the api that involves actually processing audio data so I am not sure how exactly that works so if anyone can shed some light on that, I would appreciate the hints. So far it looks like I would have to do something like this:

Wow! Thanks for the really quick update. Really loving the plugin. Thanks a lot... you're the best.

thank you! i hope this works with my zen microphoto!

edit: Well, i did not get it to work. maybe the problem is that i can't assing the drive letter for my mp3 player? I tried to use My Computer\Creative Zen MicroPhoto\Media\Music\%artist%\%album%\ as a path but it did not work. If there is someone who has managed to get this to work with Creative's Zen mp3 players i would be happy to get some help! TIA.

Nice update ;D

great plugin! i have one feature request, though:

is it possible to add an option to automatically run a tagging script on the files after copying them?

i'd really appreciate this since i run rockbox on my ipod and rockbox does not support %album artist% and %discnumber%, so i have to run a script on those files to copy the (album) artist to the composer field and to add the discnumber to the album title on every new album.

up to now, the procedure is a little bit complicated, since i have to add the new album folders to a new fb2k playlist and then run the script (because the pl still points to the files on my local drive). when the albums are in different subfolders, that's a little bit annoying.

if this option could be added, i'd have the perfect rockbox-on-ipod-management tool!

let me say that even now it's a great improvement because i do not have to use the file operations box any longer (loading ipod profile, sometimes forgetting that and having trouble etc. etc...) Thank your very much!

enjoy your weekend,
fooruncle

Hey, thanks for great plugin,

...I just cant force it to copy a file as it is - without any name changes.
I want to copy selected file t X:\ and thats it. Is it possible with current verison?

zwart

You could use X:\%filename_ext% as the destination path.

thanks cwbowron, this string does it

zwart

getting back to my suggestion. running tagging scripts after copying might also be useful for those among us who use a simplified genre structure on their mobile devices (like two friends of mine) or those who have album art in their tags (for whatever reason) and want to get rid of it on their mp3 sticks. i think basically it would be an extended version of your timestamp-function.

is there a chance you might work on it someday?

have a nice week,
frncle

I've added it to the feature requests.

My first thought would be that in the send to device options, there's a drop down that allows you to select which script to run on the new files.

That would be wonderful! Thanks for considering it!

frncle

hi cwbowron, great plugin - it works wonders with my samsung Z5. I was wondering if you could make the compononent check for folder.jpg files (and other album art) and copy it along with the music files e.g if each album was in its own directory those directories would have album art in each of them. I'd greatly appreciate it if you could do this some time in the future.

Hi!

I just discovered your plugin and uses it now for my SE K800i.
But there are two things:

1. If I uses a variable which isn't tagged in a file (%discnumber% in a single album) I get an error message and the file isn't coppied. Making "[ ]" around it doesn't help.
2. On your homepage I discovered the box with some code for converting files. Can I use this feature somehow at the moment? Would be great because I have some flac-files which the mobile can't play.

walla

the fully qualified path to the lame executable must be setup in the preferences to use the mp3 encoding. This feature should be considered beta release. If the lame.exe path has spaces in it, please enclose it in quotations marks.

great! it's much more powerful now. i'll test it as soon as possible. thanks a lot!

frncl

Hey cwbowron,

I was wondering if there is a way for this component to have the ability to use either the MSC or MTP connection protocols. My current MP3 player allows you to choose the one you want, but it seems to have problems reading files transferred through the MSC protocol. This means I have to use the MTP protocol (as well as WMP) to transfer now.

Just thought I would see if this would be possible.

Thanks!

It might be possible, but its not very likely. I went to great lengths to find my mp3 which acts like a UMS so I didnt have to deal with that stuff, so I dont even have a device to test on.

If someone wants to buy me a fancy media player that uses it, I could try supporting it :-)

I bought mine for the same reason, but with firmware changes it now won't do it. I think Microsoft got a hold of them.

Thanks anyway!

I'm having a small problem with the plugin. I created 2 different playlists in foobar to transfer to my mp3 player. The first one got sent fine, but the second one appears in a folder named after the first mp3 file (complete with extension) and the file's names inside aren't touched at all.

I'm trying to transfer the files with...

anyone know what the name of the drive that a Dell DJ uses? its not Z:\ or DJ:\

Sounds like you found a bug... are there any weird characters in the titles of the files that cause a problem, possibly a | somewhere?

Actually, you should be able to use just

I don't even use the "$ext" command. I can use this to send my MP3 files to my Sansa with the following:
It automatically does the extension.

Ah thanks a lot, cwbowron. There was a single track that had a | in it. Removing that pesky character fixed it.

kockroach: Thanks for the tip.

I installed the latest version, and my custom columnsui button doesn't seem to do anything when I click it. It still works from the commandline, but the buttons don't work. Does anyone know why that is?

this happened to me once, i deleted the folder from the mp3, sent it again and worked fine

great extension by the way, a big thank you

Hi cwbowron

Could you make an option to force mp3 encode? My Motorola V360 phone won't play mp3 with bitrate higher than 192kbs...


Regards

$if($cwb_fileexists(%_path%),G:\VA\%artist% - %title%.$ext(%_path%))
doesn't prevent foo_sendtodevice of trying to copy a file, even if it doesn't exist anymore.
Any ideas?

Feature Request:
Posibility to give names to the different schemes so you don't need to guess what it does by reading the strings.

can i convert in OGG, when sending files to device?

excuse me for my english 8)

I got error when trying to convert ape or flac to mp3 on sending:



Any ideas ?

P.s: I have LAME 3.97 beta 3.

Not sure... looks like the mp3 is not getting created... whats your lame command line look like?

C:\Programs\Foobar\Lame\lame.exe" --vbr-new -V 0

Hi cwbowron,

I was wondering if you could add support for Sony players as well? One guy has made a plugin for Winamp. It works only for mp3s which is fine by me. I could care less about atrac anyway. If this support is added, I could scratch Winamp forever off my computer. The source code is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlsony

I have no idea how much work that entails. It would be great if you could incorporate this feature. Thanks.

Any chance for album art support or providing the source code?

Source code for this, and all my plugins, is available by email request to chris@bowron.us

So, any ideas how to make it work ?