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[SteveG]

Everyone,

The next build of MC will include support for Album Art on iPod Video and includes changes and improvements that should make Album Art work smoothly. Please test and notify of issues.

Thanks,

Steve

[lOth]

Hi Steve,

since you didn't comment on it, I just wanted to make sure you were aware of that discussion in another section of the forum:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=30390.0

[brickf]

Steve,
Is the Video support in the .65 release or the next one?
Thanks

[lOth]

this thread was started after .65 was released, so I assume Steve meant next build following .65

[brickf]

Okay, thanks. Looking forward to giving it a shot again with my 5g.

[brickf]

Okay, I gave .66 a try with my Ipod Video 60g.

I first tried dowloading some tracks that have album art onto my IPOD that already had lot's of music on it. I did not initialize it. After download my database was blown....this has been consistent in all my tests.

1) So I used the IPOD updater to restore and then opened the IPOD in MC
2) Downloaded several albums that had art in the files, ejected and success!!! I got album art. Ahh bliss at last!
3) After this I re-inserted the IPOD and opened up Itunes (MC shutdown of course)
4) download a handful of music videos and ejected. IPOD is happy, the music videos show up as music and as 'music videos' and my database still looks good
5) inserted Ipod with MC open and download some more tracks, then ejected. Music and album art look good, but some of my 'music videos' are now classified as 'movies', which means they no longer show up as music. In Itunes there is an option to classify a video as a 'movie' or as a 'music video' so that you can listen to the audio only under music if desired.

Thanks again for all your efforts getting this working. It's almost dialed in, except for the changes to videos. I will try a large download tonight and see how it goes.

brick

[SteveG]

brick,

To get the music video problem solved, you could help if you don't mind. Please do the following...

1) Clean all the files off your iPod.

2) Transfer one music video to your iPod.

3) email me the iTunesDB file from your iPod. (steve @ jriver.com)


If you can do this, it would be a big help.

Steve

[brickf]

Steve,
I sent off the DB as you requested.

Last night I did a large copy based on a playlist with about 9000 songs on it. It completed, but browsing on the IPOD is very slow, with pauses while navigating between menus. Also, when I play a song it starts to queue the song and show the album art, but then freezes without playing and tries to go to the next song, and does the same thing. The net result is that my music is unplayable. I'll try doing a smaller transfer and see how it goes.

Thanks

[SteveG]

brick,

No need to do further testing on the playaback issue. We are on it and it will be resovled shortly. In regards to your email, I have not received it yet but will work that issue out quickly if I receive it.

Thanks for your help.

Steve

[brickf]

FYI Steve,
Using .71 last night I successfully transfered 8000+ songs to my 5G. Album art is working great so far, and Videos transfered fine too!

So far the only features that do not work:

1) I am not able to play or import .m4v files (an Itunes Music Video) into MC.

2) Also, the 'music video' classification, which hopefully can be added later.

Great works. Thanks