iPod Touch - What do I need to know? - Page 5

Mondo · 01-05-2008, 17:39

Cool, have you consider jailbreaking it? There a LOTS of free apps on the installer you can get and you can customise the itouch too to your taste.

Davey_Pitch · 01-05-2008, 17:44

Yup, seriously considering it, just need to read up on it to see how easy it is to change should anything go wrong.

Feek · 01-05-2008, 19:06

*click* jailbroken
*click* restored to normal

It's as simple as that.

Davey_Pitch · 01-05-2008, 20:34

Hmmm, first problem encountered. Transferred a whole load of music to the Touch and most of it played fine, but some albums completely refused to play, despite them being basic MP3s. Looking in iTunes the same files aren't listed, so there's obviously something wrong with the music, and I'll have to do some work on them to get them working. I wouldn't mind so much, but out of a music collection of 25GB, 7GB of it isn't registering so it'll be a bit of work getting it all working.

LeperousDust · 02-05-2008, 00:32

How was that 7Gb tagged, be more specific than mp3...?

Davey_Pitch · 02-05-2008, 01:27

It was all tagged perfectly through Picard, but I've sorted it now anyway. I opened up the offending files in Foobar and rebuilt the MP3 stream, which did the trick

LeperousDust · 04-05-2008, 19:29

Ironically i'm having troubles with MP3's in a similar fashion to yourself Davey, according to my iPod i've got about 9800 tracks on there, but according to MM i have around 10k, so i'm missing about 200 somewhere (not that i've noticed yet) and i'm wondering how you went about working out what was missing? A little annoying this

Davey_Pitch · 05-05-2008, 13:27

Unfortunately it was a boring manual process. I split my artists down into alphabetical subfolders (A-C, etc), then cleared the library in both iTunes and MM. I first added a subfolder to MM, and then to iTunes. If the song count was the same, all was fine, but if it differed then there would obviously be a problem somewhere, and it was a case of scanning to see which albums were missing in iTunes. With around 4000 songs in total it probably took me around an hour to get it all sorted out.

LeperousDust · 05-05-2008, 13:56

Hmmmm, i think i'm willing to skip that one! If i haven't noticed they're probably not *that* important...

Is there a way excel can show the differences between two tables? Because i've got the libraries from my iPod and from media monkey in an excel table, but i can't see any way of comparing two books sets of data? This would be a fairly quick way...

Davey_Pitch · 05-05-2008, 14:14

How do you get the libraries to the excel spreadsheet? If I can take a look myself I can probably figure it out.

01-05-2008, 17:39	#41
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01-05-2008, 17:44	#42
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01-05-2008, 19:06	#43
Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	click jailbroken click restored to normal It's as simple as that. __________________

01-05-2008, 20:34	#44
Davey_Pitch I iz speshul Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Liverpool Posts: 6,296	Hmmm, first problem encountered. Transferred a whole load of music to the Touch and most of it played fine, but some albums completely refused to play, despite them being basic MP3s. Looking in iTunes the same files aren't listed, so there's obviously something wrong with the music, and I'll have to do some work on them to get them working. I wouldn't mind so much, but out of a music collection of 25GB, 7GB of it isn't registering so it'll be a bit of work getting it all working. __________________ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

02-05-2008, 00:32	#45
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	How was that 7Gb tagged, be more specific than mp3...? __________________

02-05-2008, 01:27	#46
Davey_Pitch I iz speshul Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Liverpool Posts: 6,296	It was all tagged perfectly through Picard, but I've sorted it now anyway. I opened up the offending files in Foobar and rebuilt the MP3 stream, which did the trick __________________ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

04-05-2008, 19:29	#47
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	Ironically i'm having troubles with MP3's in a similar fashion to yourself Davey, according to my iPod i've got about 9800 tracks on there, but according to MM i have around 10k, so i'm missing about 200 somewhere (not that i've noticed yet) and i'm wondering how you went about working out what was missing? A little annoying this __________________

05-05-2008, 13:27	#48
Davey_Pitch I iz speshul Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Liverpool Posts: 6,296	Unfortunately it was a boring manual process. I split my artists down into alphabetical subfolders (A-C, etc), then cleared the library in both iTunes and MM. I first added a subfolder to MM, and then to iTunes. If the song count was the same, all was fine, but if it differed then there would obviously be a problem somewhere, and it was a case of scanning to see which albums were missing in iTunes. With around 4000 songs in total it probably took me around an hour to get it all sorted out. __________________ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

05-05-2008, 13:56	#49
LeperousDust Bananaman Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool/Edinburgh Posts: 4,817	Hmmmm, i think i'm willing to skip that one! If i haven't noticed they're probably not that important... Is there a way excel can show the differences between two tables? Because i've got the libraries from my iPod and from media monkey in an excel table, but i can't see any way of comparing two books sets of data? This would be a fairly quick way... __________________

05-05-2008, 14:14	#50
Davey_Pitch I iz speshul Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Liverpool Posts: 6,296	How do you get the libraries to the excel spreadsheet? If I can take a look myself I can probably figure it out. __________________ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.