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BlackOpSource:
Okay. First post, so obligatory praise:
-Love Rockbox
-Love the pitch function (a.k.a. the Make-Till-Lindemann-Of-Rammstein-Sound-Like-Mickey-Mouse function)
-I've grown to love the other stuff, too, especially it's lack of hostility toward iTunes and the default firmware (My experience putting iPodLinux on my first-generation Nano was a bad one.).
-So now I use Rockbox by default.


--Details Of The Problem (So It's Nicely Labeled For You)-----------------------------------
Anyway, I have a fifth-point-five-generation iPod Video, which is black (the only color for an iPod), and I'm running whichever build was available for that hardware on December 3rd, 2007, which was put on when I finally got around to updating a build a few months old (I just re-installed.).

Now, I had had enough of all my purchased iTunes music not playing in Rockbox, so I did something about it. I embarked on a project to remove all my DRM tags. And I did this the lowest-tech way I knew how: Burn it all to a couple of C.D.'s, and rip the disks. Now, I have a lot of new music in my database, but some of my old music seems to be gone. The one I remember right now (There's more, but this is the one I'm thinking of.) is Breaking Benjamin's "Diary of Jane", which is, in my collection, a 3-minute, 23-second .mp3 file with a size of 3.9 megabytes, an average bitrate of 160 kilobits per second, and a sample frequency of 44.100 kilohertz. It is in stereo, with ID3 tags of version 2.2, and, according to iTunes (I'm just reading what it says.), it was encoded by iTunes version 6.0.2.23.

This is especially interesting because although "Diary of Jane" and the album "Phobia" ("Diary of Jane" is the only song I have from "Phobia".) are both no longer in my database, but one of the files I converted from .wav (I also had a small cache of .wav files from back when I still had the drive space to rip disks to .wav files.) was Breaking Benjamin's "So Cold (Remix)". (I had broken the DRM on this track in this manner, but "Diary of Jane" came from the audio portion of something off Google Video, and so never had DRM.)

"So Cold" was in the database under its associated album, "We Are Not Alone", but "Diary of Jane" was nowhere to be found, not under a rock, or in a tree, or in the "Untagged" section of the database (Why it might be there, I don't know, since it was always a properly tagged .mp3 file.).
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--Summary--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
For those of you unwilling to read my perhaps over-informative "Details" section (I try to avoid leaving people in the dark, but I can understand why some might call it a bit wordy.), I removed the DRM tags on some music and converted some music from .wav to .mp3. This music was put on the iPod. This music showed up in the Rockbox database after an update, but when this was done, other music was "kicked out" of the database.

Help? Pretty please?
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I apologize now if I am posting in violation of some rule or another. I really did read all the stuff that says "READ THIS FIRST!" or whatever. Move the topic as you see fit.


~BlackOpSource



EDIT: I feel like kind of an idiot. I updated again, and this time it only had a couple of my podcasts from The Onion, and I was scared. So I initialized the database, rebooted, and voila! There it all was. Hooray for me. It seems like updating was what caused the problem in the first place, so that may be a bug, but I don't really know.

Additionally, I'd like to thank you guys for all the helpful ideas and brainstorming, and even just the wild stabs in the dark that helped me to solve it. Given that a problem like this hasn't really been brought up in the forums yet (as far as I can tell, and I searched!), I like that you guys really came together and got to work. I mean, I understand that this is freeware and everyone here is just doing what they enjoy, but look at these forums. Those guys are about as helpful as they come.

Really, I'm just noting that it displeases me that I had a legitimate problem, I came to the forums for help, followed near-universal guidelines for posting problems on message boards, gave as much information as I could think of to give, and also wasn't a prick ("You guys gave me a crappy product, blah, blah, blah!") about it, and I get ZERO response.

I bet those last two paragraphs will get a really nice response, though.

~BlackOpSource

Mikerman:
Sorry, an Iriver iHP-140 user here, and so the only thing I could tell you about iPods is that they do weird things to music making the filing system less-than-transparent.

Now, if you had asked a question about drag and drop, I could have helped ...

BlackOpSource:
Thank you, good sir.

I do know that (about the filing system), but I appreciate the comment. I just wanted some show that people cared; I didn't need a definite answer, just some ideas.

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