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Thanks guys!
malexmedia:
--- Quote from: kamisamanou on February 07, 2007, 11:35:25 AM ---They may be tagged, but probably with the wrong charset. I think rockbox only understand unicode tags.
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Eh, I tagged these buggers myself. (It's my podcast...) I used Easytag, which is the same method I used for all the music on my player. (Everything else works, so I'm pretty sure it's not that.) ;)
I'm sure iTunes did something stupid when it loaded up the files which is indirectly preventing rockbox from identifying them as audio files. I'll be checking it out later today.
ttyl
--Alex
malexmedia:
--- Quote from: malexmedia on February 07, 2007, 12:02:11 PM ---I'm sure iTunes did something stupid when it loaded up the files which is indirectly preventing rockbox from identifying them as audio files. I'll be checking it out later today.
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I did a little creative grepping through my iPod's filesystem, and what do you know? iTunes jacked up its own database and deleted all the episodes of every single podcast off my ipod! (And I wondered what all the little '!' marks next to the episodes meant.) What a wonderful piece of software iTunes is.
Now that I've "fixed" it by "deleting" all of the podcasts and allowing iTunes to re-sync them, rockbox magically found the episodes and indexed them.
So the moral of the story is don't use iTunes. Ever.
ttyl!
--Alex
bascule:
--- Quote from: kamisamanou on February 07, 2007, 11:35:25 AM ---They may be tagged, but probably with the wrong charset. I think rockbox only understand unicode tags.
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But even then, unless the characters are all outside the 0-FF range, it should at least pick up something, even if it appears scrambled.
The best thing to do would be to copy a known tagged podcast file directly onto the device and then navigate to it using the File Browser to see what tags it has (as shown in the WPS).
macro:
To everyone responsible for RockBox:
You are gods.
Where do I start! First of all, what a class project. I'm not sure I've ever seen such a tightly-run open source project: The constant builds across all targets with the build report matrix, thorough and accurate per-target documentation, etc. etc. I'm a software developer myself and this project is something to aspire to.
I got an iPod Nano about a year ago. I was immediately disappointed with the sound quality but thought "well the earphones are cheesy plus the thing's tiny, so I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too". After blowing my eardrums a few times when attempting to fast-forward when it had automatically switched back to volume mode, I hated the interface. Oh yeah P.S. secret on-disk database format so you have to use iTunes (yeah right). Despite all that, it did manage to play MP3's so I just sucked it up and pretended nothing was wrong.
It wasn't until I was later tinkering with some other players that I realized it wasn't the earphones' fault: The same MP3 through the same earphones on a different player -- in that case, a little sony job -- produced MUCH better quality. At that point I knew my iPod involved shitty apple hardware, shitty apple software, or both. No way to tell, I thought, and even if there was, nothing I can do about it. So I continued sucking it up.
Later still I happened to be tinkering with mplayer when I realized just how much of a difference in audio quality a good MP3 decoder -- in that case, mad -- makes. I still had no way to tell whether it was the ipod's hardware or the software that sucked. What I did know was that I would have to keep sucking it up.
Then, a couple days ago, I stumble upon RockBox while looking something up in Wikipedia. I had no idea such a thing existed. Blanked the whole iPod drive (not necessary but I was over the apple garbage), installed RockBox, and 5 minutes later the thing's kicking out audio quality I never thought it could. Plus as bonuses I get: An eardrum-safe interface; File-based navigation (I hate the apple artist/album nav); Ogg support (plus others I'm sure); Drag-and-drop file management; Themes; Doom; etc. etc. etc.
If you have an iPod Nano, do not pass go, do not collect $200, get RockBox on there now. Even in it's (apparently) early stage of development, RockBox on iPod absolutely canes apple's ipod software.
Thank you very much. I salute the developers.
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