Topic: Re-encoding when coping to portable devices (Read 2666 times)

blabla · « **on:** March 15, 2002, 05:03:17 am »

would be cool if jukebox would automatically re-encode files when coping them to my portable player since quality is in this case not an issue but size is.

Doof · « **Reply #1 on:** March 15, 2002, 05:09:43 am »

It can. Tell me what version of MJ you're using, and I'll tell you how to do it.

Steve · « **Reply #2 on:** March 15, 2002, 05:17:08 am »

Doof,

Thanks.

blabla · « **Reply #3 on:** March 15, 2002, 06:35:12 am »

Steve · « **Reply #4 on:** March 15, 2002, 07:11:34 am »

blabla,

Go to Settings-> Next Page

lug-in Manager and select "Handheld". You will see a dialog that allows you to check "Force File Conversion" which is what you are after. In version 8 of MJ this is a little more obvious.

Doof · « **Reply #5 on:** March 15, 2002, 08:54:54 am »

Damnit, you beat me to it. Next Page

That's what I get for eating lunch.

KingSparta · « **Reply #6 on:** March 15, 2002, 09:05:55 am »

>> Go to Settings->lug-in Manager and select "Handheld".
>> You will see a dialog that allows you to check "Force File Conversion"
I don't see it

Also My MP3 player reports as a drive, how do i get it to re-encode to it to maybe 64kbps - 96kbps

Steve · « **Reply #7 on:** March 15, 2002, 09:23:20 am »

KingSparta,

I am guessing you are running version 8. If this is the case and your mp3 player reports as a drive, you should see it's driveletter under "Devices". After you either drag and drop files to your player (or right-click and use "send to") when you click on the driveletter, you will see an "Options" button. When you click the Options button, you will have the ability to set MJ to do the conversions you want as the files are being transferred.

Doof,

No lunchbreaks allowed Next Page

Doof · « **Reply #8 on:** March 15, 2002, 12:05:47 pm »

Apparently I'm not allowed to work, either. You beat to the punch on KingSparta's question, too! Next Page

NY40Male · « **Reply #9 on:** March 15, 2002, 02:25:22 pm »

whatta u do take lunch from 9 to 5?...lol

Doof · « **Reply #10 on:** March 15, 2002, 05:38:29 pm »

Nope. I was having lunch from 12 to 1 (EST) and then I was away from my computer setting up 3 Citrix clients at one of our remote sites until about 3. And then I was fighting with a scanner until 4:30 (I hate trying to install a parrellel scanner up on a WinNT4 machine) and then from 4:30 to 5:30 I was installing the latest version of Client Access Express on the billing department PC's. I don't really remember what I was doing before noon. My brain doesn't fully wake up until then. Next Page

KingSparta · « **Reply #11 on:** March 16, 2002, 01:26:46 am »

now i need to find the mp3 player.

Steve · « **Reply #12 on:** March 17, 2002, 04:19:30 am »

KingSparta,

If you click on Plugins->Settings->Find Misplaced MP3 Player, MJ will scan your house and notify you as to the last place you had your mp3 player before it went AWOL. Next Page

Talk about a product that does it all.

KingSparta · « **Reply #13 on:** March 17, 2002, 04:21:22 am »

thanks, that worked

I found it Under The Back Of My Monitor, Thats after me and My wife looked thru the house for 3 hours.

Convert worked, a fue bugs in the convert option that i posted in the bug message thread

Steve · « **Reply #14 on:** March 17, 2002, 04:28:09 am »

I'll go check the bugs out now.

We will try to cut the house scan time down in v9.

Steve · « **Reply #15 on:** March 17, 2002, 04:49:16 am »

KingSparta,

I am having trouble duplicating this.

///////////////////////////////////////
Re-encoding to MP3 device
I put in a bunch of MP3's to reincode to a MP3 player that shows up as a drive.
i started it, then i aborted
deleted all but one
re-started the re-encode and transfer
MJ kept trying to send all the files even if they were no longer in the que to convert
///////////////////////////////////////

When did you try to abort the transfer? During the encode/reencode or once the file transfers to the Portable had begun?

///////////////////////////////////////
when trying to send files to the mp3 device on the second time
i deleted the files on the mp3 player, and selected another file, MJ no only sent that file but the original file to the player, that was not listed in the que.
////////////////////////////////////////

Just to be clear, you are saying that on your device that has no files, after you send one file with conversion enabled, you end up with two files on your device, one that is the converted file and one that is the original?

KingSparta · « **Reply #16 on:** March 17, 2002, 04:53:02 am »

I will need to re-test, after this import i am currently doing, and will try to answer all the questions, and make a step by step list on whats going on.

JollyJim · « **Reply #17 on:** March 17, 2002, 05:11:46 am »

KingS

Why is it that you always find things in the last place you looked ?

Jim

KingSparta · « **Reply #18 on:** March 17, 2002, 07:37:23 am »

Well there is a reason, but you must watch the Twilight Zone Show with this related topic.

It seems there are other time lines, and sometimes they make mistakes when creating the next time line, and in this case it was my mp3 player. so to hide there mistake they placed my mp3 player under the back of my monitor. this way they can blame it on me, but i know it was the time line creators fault and not mine.

there is little or nothing we can do about this, we must just cary on our lives as normal.

KingSparta · « **Reply #19 on:** March 17, 2002, 08:06:34 am »

it seems

if i send lets say 2 files from a play list to the mp3 player, then let it decode, re-encode, copy the file to mp3 player.

then when it is done, i go back and move another file to the mp3 player

it this point i can see the 2 files in the mp3 player already and one tells me it is in que

when i click upload files, and it decodes and encodes the files all ready transfered and then decodes and encodes the new file to the mp3 player.

then it transfers all files, from the first "upload files" Click and the second "upload files" Click

this also happens if you have show queued files only checked.

I think what is happening is when you click on "Upload Files" MJ is not looking at the "File Status" field And Only Decoding And Encoding "In Queue" files to the mp3 player, and if there is anything in the list it does all.

Charlemagne 8 · « **Reply #20 on:** March 17, 2002, 11:55:32 am »

Why is it that you always find things in the last place you looked ?
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It seems there are other time lines, and sometimes they make mistakes when creating the next time line, and in this case it was my mp3 player. so to hide there mistake they placed my mp3 player under the back of my monitor. this way they can blame it on me, but i know it was the time line creators fault and not mine.

Now I feel like a chump. "They" had me convinced that it was because you stopped looking when you found whatever you were looking for. I am SO gullible.

Steve · « **Reply #21 on:** March 18, 2002, 05:02:48 am »

KingSparta,

I verified this problem this morning and it is fixed in the next version. Thanks for the report.

Steve

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