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Loving RockBox but need some help
labfm1:
ok, i failed in installation the first time but now i got it installed and i am loving the plethora of extra features!! truly is amazing..
however, a couple problems (quite critical) have risen and i fear i may have to go back to the old firmware :(
i have an iPod Video 30GB
i used the current build rockbox, installed the latest font pack as well as some custom themes.
* i have some playlists that I already made in itunes. How can i get these playlists into rockbox?? (if possible)
* more importantly, rockbox seems not to recognize some of the genres i have in itunes. This is a HUGE problem. It is recognizing some but not all. It is marking these songs as having the genre "untagged" on my ipod. It is over 2000 songs in 3 different genres, so it will be very difficult to rename all. Does rockbox only recognize conventional genres (rock, jazz e.t.c)? I need a fix for this badly.
please, any help is appreciated.
saratoga:
Check using foobar or some other app that one of these genreless files actually has a genre tag.
labfm1:
ok...
i am using a mac, and all my songs in my itunes are in aac format..
at first i thought it was that, but it cannot be, since all the other songs are in that format yet their genre's got recognized by the rockbox
i took some of the aac files, transferred it to my pc, downloaded foobar and got the tag information....all the information is there...
right now, i went into itunes, selected all my music and selected "Convert ID3 tags"....converted all to ID3v2.3 as this was recommended on quite a few sites i've read..
i've updated the ipod but still no luck with recognizing of some of the genres......
i hope there's more help to get....i want to use rockbox!
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: labfm1 on July 18, 2007, 03:42:26 PM ---however, a couple problems (quite critical)
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I really can't see why these problems should be critical ...
--- Quote ---* i have some playlists that I already made in itunes. How can i get these playlists into rockbox?? (if possible)
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Rockbox uses standard m3u playlists. You need to convert those playlists with an external tool. No idea what tools are available on the web for macs to do this task. There was also a plugin in the tracker for accessing those playlists but I don't think it works any more. Someone in the forums showed interest creating a conversion plugin a couple of days ago.
--- Quote ---* more importantly, rockbox seems not to recognize some of the genres i have in itunes.
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If these files don't have the tags added (itunes seems to like writing data only into its own database instead of the files' tags) you need a tool to fix this. That's nothing Rockbox can do anything about as Rockbox doesn't use (and will not use) the itunes database. If the tags are present more details would be interesting.
labfm1:
--- Quote from: bluebrother on July 18, 2007, 04:54:28 PM ---If these files don't have the tags added (itunes seems to like writing data only into its own database instead of the files' tags) you need a tool to fix this. That's nothing Rockbox can do anything about as Rockbox doesn't use (and will not use) the itunes database. If the tags are present more details would be interesting.
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i couldn't see the id3 tags on my mac, so i transferred a couple of the files from my mac to my pc. Used foobar and saw that the files did have the correct tags.
The strange thing to me is that all my songs with conventional genres (rock, jazz) have their tags in rockbox, yet my songs with unconventional genres (oldies, dancehall) shows up as "untagged"
what "more details" would you like to know??
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