iPod Mini 2G - Files do not display

[scythianarrows]

Player: iPod Mini 2nd Gen
Rockbox version: 3.13
HD: Transcend brand 32GB CF card

After copying files to my \Music directory on the iPod and then ejecting it from my computer, I can see the folders for artist & album showing up, but the audio files themselves do not appear. System info shows that something is taking up space on the card (~13GB free space out of ~30GB) and when I plug in the iPod via USB, I can open the \Music directory and see the folders for artist + album with all the audio files inside.

How do I make Rockbox recognize those files? I have already reset the iPod (hold Play/Pause and Menu until Apple logo appears) but cannot actually see any audio files on the GUI.

[saratoga]

You probably have the view file type setting set to something like "playlists only".  Check the manual for the location of that setting then change it to "all" or "all music". 

[scythianarrows]

Thank you!

I set it to "all" and everything showed up - any reason why just setting it to "music" wouldn't show them?

[saratoga]

AFAIK music should show any format rockbox knows how to play.  Is that not the case?

[scythianarrows]

The files - mix of MP3 & FLAC - do not show unless All is selected. None of the files play, either.

[[Saint]]

The files - mix of MP3 & FLAC - do not show unless All is selected. None of the files play, either.

This sounds very much like a symptom of the files themselves being corrupt, or a corrupt file system.

As saratoga stated prior to my post, Rockbox should (and does, in a normal circumstance) display any file format it has the ability to play (which is a lot...a LOT). Neither .mp3 nor .flac are "exotic" formats, and both should definitely be displayed in the File Browser with the Show Files setting set to either All, Music, or Supported.

I would advise you to use chkdsk (for Windows OS) to check your disc for errors, on Linux you would want to use fsck.vfat instead.

Hopefully, you have the media on the device backed up elsewhere, in which case data loss on the device is of little to no consequence. It is possible that you may not be able to fully recover all of the media on the device if the file system is corrupt. If you do have the media on the device backed up elsewhere you may find it is easier to simply format the disc and reinstall the Rockbox binary (the Rockbox bootloader and the Apple OF will not be touched - the Apple OF will recreate the directory structure it requires the next time the OF is booted, nothing that resides on the storage partition is essential to the Apple firmware).


[Saint]

EDIT: Pre-answering a question - "OF" == Original Firmware