iPlay testers needed

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[Cassandra]

Now if only I could find a program that correctly generated an iTunesDB for the 5g from my existing music ...

[crashd]

Cassandra: the foo_pod plugin is close to having support for 5G and the new itunes database format. O.o

[gdap]

I'd like to try this too. I've got a 5g ipod video.

[eubanksae]

I have 5G 60GB ipod, and I'd like to try this, but need to know if I'll still be able to transfer photos to the ipod without a pc.  One of the main reasons I got the ipod was so that when I travel, I can dump my digital pictures to the ipod without having to lug around a laptop.  I have the little apple attachment that plugs into the dock port on the ipod, and has a usb port on the other side for the camera to plug into.

Thanks,
Andy E.

[gdap]

Good stuff, Kem.

Occasionally I select a playlist that gets loaded but then the tracks don't play. Most of the time it works fine, though.

Things I'd like to see:

- Don't pause current music playback when loading the iArt plugin
- Rather than selecting a playlist resulting in it starting to play, I think it would be very useful for the tracks within it being displayed (as though expanding a directory in Rockbox's file view

- Artists, Album, etc browsing as on the iPod

For the moment this is a huge improvement on picking random FXUIF.mp3 filenames!

Thanks.

[joesomebody]

I would like to try it...I have nothing to lose...would someone send me the files? I am too much of a n00b to compile on my own quite yet...am working on it.

[blaxbb]

or better yet post it on fileshack or somewhere because i cant compile

[Suntiger]

joe and blax:

That's exactly what I've been saying, but it turns out it's remarkably easy to use the VMware image to compile custom builds. Took me 30 minutes or so, once I corrected my "patch" syntax. I really suggest you try it yourselves, you'll be happier when it works and you don't have to ask people anymore.

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/VMwareDevelopmentPlatform - follow this for the most part
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/HowToCompile - Step 6 is important!
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WorkingWithPatches - For patching, this is really all you need.

[blaxbb]

ok i booted up and got to cvs checkout rockbox and it said unknown host www.rockbox.org besides that its a good program

[jimarib]

Ok, i have asked a question like this beforebut since none seems willing to post a patched rockbox.ipod on a file server, though this is understandable. Anyway, i can compile a source using VMware put have no idea about patching, ive asked about the albumart patch, and was told to write 'patch -p0 < *.patch' (subbing 8 with patch name) which worked fine, but when i tried it with the iplay_plugin_c.patch and the iplay_plugin_h.patch it asked for a file name and asked wheter i used the wrong command, which i probably did. My question is, im willing to compile and patch, but i would like some help with what to do.   

[travishayes89]

im thinking about becoming a tester, what do i need to do?

[gummbah]

joe and blax:

That's exactly what I've been saying, but it turns out it's remarkably easy to use the VMware image to compile custom builds. Took me 30 minutes or so, once I corrected my "patch" syntax. I really suggest you try it yourselves, you'll be happier when it works and you don't have to ask people anymore.

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/VMwareDevelopmentPlatform - follow this for the most part
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/HowToCompile - Step 6 is important!
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WorkingWithPatches - For patching, this is really all you need.

I whish I could understand a damn thing of those pages, but I don't.
So I guess I will have to wait until some nice person makes a build with the iplay patch and album art patch installed.

[pixeldotz]

for those of you that wondered about foo_pod for creating the db. foo_pod has a repair function that i used just 2 days ago on a friends 5g. itunes had corrupted his database to the point where NOTHING was showing up in the main menu or in itunes.

i ran the repair function twice. and it worked fine after that.

here's a usefull hint so you wont have to use the RESTORE function from the ipod updater (this formats the ipod..not good if you want to keep your music)

grab all the files off an ipod (depending on your version) and from a fresh RESTORE, preferably from a friend or if you have no other option than to restore, or if you just bought the ipod and haven't messed with it yet. make sure you can pull the hidden files too. so just copy all files from the root and place them somewhere that you will not mess with them.

so whenever  you have an 'incident' that you end up with a corrupt database, you can just erase the ipod_control folder. copy it back from your backup, then use foo_pod to recreate your database.

this is the technique i used for my friends, he has a 5g, so does my bro, so i pulled the files from my bros and put them on my friends, repaired using foo_pod and all his music was there, fine, unharmed.

i also backedup my nano in case this ever happens to mine.

just a helpful hint i thought i'd share.

[ZAPPAJOE]

I'm assuming when you used foo_pod to rebuild the database, you were using the original files as the iPod firmware stored them (F01, F02, F03 directories).  I did a ton of testing trying to build the iPod database with regular filenames (names that made sense, ex. "01 - Dancing In The Show Tonight") and it didn't work.  It doesn't look like there is a newer version of foo_pod around. 

Please correct me if I'm wrong, because if this would work I'd go back to using Rockbox (or even better if the dock/remote would work through Rockbox)