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IPOD Nano 80GB playback broken ?

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LambdaCalculus:

--- Quote from: Art99 on August 17, 2009, 09:39:18 PM ---You gotta be kidding me you've never heard of the 80GB IPOD - I see many many posts in the forum concerning 80GB IPOD's like mine.

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I have heard of the 80GB iPod... both video and Classic. Just not an 80GB nano.

And it was just in lighthearted humor that I said that.

Art99:
Sorry about that  when I typed that I didn't realize you were a moderator until I came back later and noticed. I'd just spent 2 full nites trying to get it working and was rathar frazzled by that point :(

Well I think I finally got it working now but had to uninstall Rockbox and then go into ITunes and restore the ipod back to factory defaults. Then I reinstalled Rockbox 3.3 and added a few Flac files and they played ok and I was also able to advance to the next song ok too.

One weird thing I can't figure out is that after I restored the Ipod in ITunes and reinstalled Rockbox I unplugged the usb cable and booted up Rockbox. After it booted I went into database and it tried to intialize 400 plus files even though no files were on the Ipod. Is there any way to get everything off the IPOD including nonexistant tags off so it's totally 'clean' before adding songs ? It is very easy to add songs using drag & drop in the Windows file manager and it would be nice if you could delete them using the windows interface too but apparently that screws everything up and when you boot rockbox back up it still thinks the deleted songs are installed. I couldn't get anything to delete in Rockbox when I followed the instructions in the manual - I'll try it again later when I'm rested I guess.

Cheers

Chronon:
You can manage your files with Windows' file manager just fine.  Be aware that operating systems sometimes like to move files to a hidden trash folder instead of deleting them.  You can either force the OS to delete or run the DiskTidy plugin in Rockbox to deal with this.

Restoring in iTunes writes a new partition table and completely reformats the drive.  There shouldn't be any left over files after this.  I believe that sometimes the count given while Rockbox builds the database doesn't directly correspond to the number of music files it has processed.  Did unwanted entries appear in the database when it was done? 

Art99:
Thanks. I will try that Tidydisk plugin after I read up on it a bit. When I installed about 2450 Flac files Rockbox reported I had over 2800 after I added them to the database. From track 1 thru about 2400 it consistently took a couple seconds for each one to get entered but when the count hit 2400 or so suddenly it was adding 20 songs every couple of seconds instead of just one which I thought seemed odd. I think it's just a quirk that in the end doesn't make any difference in being able to operate Rockbox correctly. Despite my early trials and tribulations it certainly is better than converting Flac to Ape and installing them on the Ipod via ITunes like I used to do. Apple could easily support Flac but probably won't since Ape is a competitor to the Flac codec.

Chronon:
Do you mean ALAC?  I didn't think Apple's firmware supported Monkey's Audio.

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