Rockbox compatibility with Foobar 2000?

[slayerdemon555]

Hello everyone, and my apologies if this is in the wrong forum.

I recently installed the RockBox software onto my 5.5 Gen Ipod video. When the software (Rockbox) is running on my ipod I am unable to add or delete files in foobar. When I attempt this, I recieve the error message

"Failed to query device properties. Write operations are disabled."

I have found some other suggestions to fix this problem through google (such as updating my computer with drivers stored in the itunes installer) but I have not had any luck.

Does anyone know how to fix this error?

Thank you for your help everyone.

[Serenity]

That's a weird problem. Can you still copy/delete files from your iPod outside of Foobar?  If so, maybe a fresh install of Foobar would help.

If not, I'd say go to your device manager and uninstall the drivers for your iPod (and maybe even uninstall iTunes if you don't mind doing that).  Reboot the computer, then turn on the iPod, let Rockbox boot up normally, and plug it in to your computer.  Hopefully drivers will be downloaded and sorted and it (may/may not) work.

If Foobar is the problem, maybe try a portable installation? I assume if it's already reading/writing from its own directory on the iPod, it should be able to save to the iPod elsewhere.

If that doesn't work....um, maybe permissions?

Sorry I'm not more help.

[[Saint]]

The simple fix for this should be to boot the original firmware (assuming it is expecting the original firmware to respond in some fashion), as my guess would be that it (quite rightly) doesn't expect there to be a third party operating system on a closed platform.

A simpler fix for this still (assuming you don't use the original firmware), would be to simply not use any form of sync management software at all - especially not any that wants to use the crazy iTunes media obfuscation scheme* - as it is absolutely, completely, and totally unnecessary for Rockbox.

This is often viewed as one of the major benefits of Rockbox. it requires no media management software whatsoever. Just drag and drop your files anywhere in the device storage (except /.rockbox), and you will have access to it via the File Browser or Database (though the Database is only ever going to be as useful as the metadata is complete).


[Saint]

*Note: If you have previously synced music to the device via iTunes, this pretty much forces the use of the Database because iTunes likes to obfuscate the files and scatter them about the storage volume in seemingly random order, because they apparently wanted to be as annoying as possible in their quest against the dirty, dirty pirates. Personally, I would remove this (just format the storage volume if you have your media backed up, nothing important lives in the filesystem that the original firmware won't replace on the next boot) and start afresh using drag and drop and order the media on your device however you want to.

[knil]

I know, this thread is very old!

But I want to let searching users know, that there is a solution for syncing foobar2000 content to Rockbox players in a very flexible way.
If you are interestet, look at http://foobarsync.lima-city.de, home of FoobarSync. I am author of this tool, so you may ask questions here or via the wiki / Hydrogenaudio Forums.