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Thanks guys!
Yotto:
A more fair comparison would be Karma on the iPod to Rockbox on the iPod. Rockbox wins hands down :D
I know what you're saying though. Rockbox *does* have issues on the iPod. My 5G sometimes locks up (though it's been a while), sometimes fails to bookmark, and sometimes doesn't shut down properly. The battery life, while okay, isn't great, and there's no practical video capability.
But it still kicks the ever loving... fudge... out of the iPod firmware IMO.
malexmedia:
--- Quote from: Yotto on February 06, 2007, 09:41:14 PM ---But it still kicks the ever loving... fudge... out of the iPod firmware IMO.
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My sentiments exactly. ;)
bascule:
--- Quote from: malexmedia on February 06, 2007, 06:09:11 PM ---My only question is this: I have a number of mp3 podcast episodes which exist on the player and show up when using the original firmware. However, these mp3s don't show up in rockbox, even though the database was supposed to have indexed all of the files on the filesystem.
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Two questions:
How are they tagged and are you using the default Database?
If they are not tagged, the Database will display them under an < untagged > listing. If they are tagged are you looking in the correct place in the Database for the files? E.g., are they genre-tagged as 'Podcast' or 'speech' or 'comedy' or any number of bizarre other categories I've seen used as genre.
--- Quote from: malexmedia on February 06, 2007, 09:01:18 PM ---Btw, my previous comments about karma's manual/arbitrary playlist manipulation seem to be irrelevant. I've just figured out how to use the equivalent rockbox features, and they seem equally featureful to me.
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Just about the only things the Rockbox Database can't do vs the Karma is any of the date-time stuff, such as 'All newly loaded songs', 'play approximately 1.5 hours of songs I used to listen to but haven't heard for 6+ months'. This is because the Database is designed for targets without a Real Time Clock and  thus that data is just not available.
It can be somewhat simulated using the playtime attribute (see the examples in the Wiki)
It also cannot do one of my favourites 'Remove all songs by this artist from the playlist'. That was so useful for removing an artist that didn't fit a mood from a large auto-generated playlist :)
malexmedia:
--- Quote from: bascule on February 07, 2007, 04:25:08 AM ---If they are not tagged, the Database will display them under an < untagged > listing. If they are tagged are you looking in the correct place in the Database for the files? E.g., are they genre-tagged as 'Podcast' or 'speech' or 'comedy' or any number of bizarre other categories I've seen used as genre.
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Yeah, the MP3 files are tagged. I've tried looking based on the artist, album, genre, and even title of the episodes. For whatever reason, Rockbox isn't indexing those files. I'll look into it more today - I'm sure iTunes is doing something stupid...
kamisamanou:
--- Quote from: malexmedia on February 07, 2007, 10:57:27 AM ---
--- Quote from: bascule on February 07, 2007, 04:25:08 AM ---If they are not tagged, the Database will display them under an < untagged > listing. If they are tagged are you looking in the correct place in the Database for the files? E.g., are they genre-tagged as 'Podcast' or 'speech' or 'comedy' or any number of bizarre other categories I've seen used as genre.
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They may be tagged, but probably with the wrong charset. I think rockbox only understand unicode tags.
Yeah, the MP3 files are tagged. I've tried looking based on the artist, album, genre, and even title of the episodes. For whatever reason, Rockbox isn't indexing those files. I'll look into it more today - I'm sure iTunes is doing something stupid...
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They may be tagged, but probably with the wrong charset. I think rockbox only understand unicode tags.
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