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Devices => Androids and other portables => Topic started by: elo on March 11, 2008, 04:03:59 am

Title: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: elo on March 11, 2008, 04:03:59 am
I am planing to buy a iPod Touch 32GB. I have tried the 16GB version and MC12 could not detect it. There is info around the forum that the touch is not supported by MC yet. Can anyone confirm this? Can anyone inform of plans to support it and if so when will it be supported?
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: JimH on March 11, 2008, 08:32:55 am
Soon.
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: ThoBar on March 12, 2008, 05:03:24 am
Soon.
Is this official? Can I look at the Touch with 100% confidence that it will be supported by MC (I am still holding out for a device I like that MC supports fully - and that I can get salary packaged  >:()
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: JimH on March 12, 2008, 08:37:07 am
Official?  Probably.  Apple could throw us another curve.
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: rjm on March 12, 2008, 11:09:48 am
This is wonderful news.

Does this imply that the iPhone might also be supported?

Its none of my business but I am curious if it was the recently announced SDK that enabled this?
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: JimH on March 15, 2008, 10:57:05 am
... curious if it was the recently announced SDK that enabled this?
No. 

Touch should work (but not perfectly) in the build posted yesterday (456).
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: rjm on March 15, 2008, 11:46:34 am
No. 

Touch should work (but not perfectly) in the build posted yesterday (456).

Thanks Jim. The JRiver team is amazing.
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: SwellGuy on March 17, 2008, 10:09:13 am
Yes, the iPod touch and the iPhone and handled the same.
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: Cheburashka on March 26, 2008, 09:20:25 am
Before trying this... do the "known problems" in the sticky (which is quite ambiguous) actually still exist in more recent versions?
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: SwellGuy on March 26, 2008, 10:02:59 am
Yes (unfortunately).
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: Cheburashka on March 26, 2008, 02:15:31 pm
Ok... well, progress before perfection.

And are you folks working on the three itunes compatability issues I've raised previously:

1.  Files referenced from .cue files are not synched properly (the whole album file rather than just an extracted segment is synched, screwing up the size limits)?
2.  MP4/AAC tagging?
3.  Conversion of video for iPod/iPhone with tagging?
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: JimH on March 26, 2008, 02:51:55 pm
Cue files and iPod may never work.

MP4/AAC filetypes are probably played in MC with Quicktime.  We can read, but not write.

I believe that video conversion works now for iPod.  Check the options.  Iphone might also work.
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: Cheburashka on March 26, 2008, 03:59:37 pm
Cue files and iPod may never work.

MP4/AAC filetypes are probably played in MC with Quicktime.  We can read, but not write.

I believe that video conversion works now for iPod.  Check the options.  Iphone might also work.

Thanks Jim, its nice to get a response on these.  There are freeware source libraries now that support mp4/aac tagging.  If I help you find one of them would that help move the tagging issue along?

Also - it seems to me like it would be straightforward for you to do the cue-files-for-ipod thing.  You just run the relevant portion of the media file through the converter, just like you would for any other file that needs its type converted for ipod use, and update the tags.  In fact, I think (I would have to try this again) it works properly if you just select music from within a .cue'd file and choose "convert file type"...  It just doesn't work automatic...

How can I encourage/help you to resolve these issues?
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: Cheburashka on April 02, 2008, 03:44:31 pm
Bump.
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: neovibe on April 08, 2008, 03:54:34 pm
Cue files and iPod may never work.

You mean the cue splitting process during the automatic iPod sync will never work??
What happens when I try to sync a flac+cue album with an ipod?
Like Cheburashka said, unless I'm wrong, MC already does all of this when I use "library tools" » "convert format" so I thought it already worked seamlessly!
Can anyone clear this up?

thanks
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: elo on April 09, 2008, 08:31:04 am
Sorry have been on travel but this is good news (the suport of touch)!!!!
Thank you all!

Ole
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: Doof on April 09, 2008, 08:56:01 am
You mean the cue splitting process during the automatic iPod sync will never work??
What happens when I try to sync a flac+cue album with an ipod?
Like Cheburashka said, unless I'm wrong, MC already does all of this when I use "library tools" » "convert format" so I thought it already worked seamlessly!
Can anyone clear this up?

thanks

I think what Jim meant was that actually putting a cue file on the iPod and having it handle that wouldn't work. MC's smart enough to know what formats an iPod will play and will convert files accordingly.
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: neovibe on April 10, 2008, 03:46:58 am
sorry for my insistence but I didn't understand,  does the flac+cue to ipod transfer work seamlessly or not? (with the touch in particular)
(I know cue files on ipod will never ever work)

thanks again!
Title: Re: Detection and sync of iPod Touch
Post by: Doof on April 10, 2008, 06:44:45 am
Well, I've never tested it with flac+cue, but I do use APL files which kinda similar and MC converts those to MP3 automatically before putting them onto the iPod, so I don't see any reason why it wouldn't do the same with flac+cue.