d_iPhone.dll supporting iPhone 3.0 firmware

[abraxxa]

Abbraxxa, I loaded my whole whole library into itunes and everything was once again "analyzed for gapless playback" by itunes just days before the new dll came out. The art that was in associated files still worked on the 3g here.

I can't do that for all my music because iTunes doesn't recognize flac.

@jiri: wouldn't it be easier for you to export the selected tracks for syncing into iTunes and convert the formats it doesn't support like you do now?

[njkode]

Ringtones....

Remember... if you update ringtones in itunes ANY MUSIC previously loaded by MM will be lost on the device. The ringtones seem to be connected to the music file structure in the devices. (I'm not sure about video or podcasts because I don't have any...might be same issue...experiment)

You must clear device...update ringtones with itunes THEN sync/load music with MM. You must not resync ringtones with itunes again.

I know you can then still sync apps, info and pictures with itunes without affecting music files loaded by MM....BUT if you sync ringtones MM music will be nuked.

I'm using 3g's, original phones, and ipods nanos...no 3gs's yet.

Thank you I did find all this out experimenting last night.
Got a road trip tonight so just trying to have enough music on iphone to last for trip, like I said lived with out ringtones so can still live with out them

[jiri]

I have just uploaded an updated version that should fix all the problems previously mentioned and in addition it also fixes one more album art problem. So give it a try, there isn't any known problem.

Jiri

[cmx]

abraxxa,

The album art was ok till iTunes analyzed the music for uninterruptible playback. After that all album art was gone.

I thought you were suggesting the "analyzing for gapless playback" by itunes created an artwork problem. I was just pointing out it did not seem to affect art here.

[Legolas]

Hi
I tried the new .dll yesterday and was able to successfully sync to 3GS, w/ artwork

Thanks for the wonderful support, and MM

[abraxxa]

@cmx: that's exactly what I wanted to say

@jiri: just cleared all music from my 3g and synced one album with the new dll, album art was ok. After some more iTunes syncs it was still ok.
Just FYI: the iPod app on the iPhone shows a 'library is updated' screen after a MM sync when you first open it which takes longer the more music you have on the iPhone. That's something I haven't seen before.

Another problem which didn't occur in the past is that iTunes syncs all video podcast episodes (i don't have audio podcasts) every time after a MM sync altered the contents of the iPhone music library although they are already on the iPhone. I've verified that this doesn't happen when you sync with MM but haven't altered the contents of the playlist which you sync to the iPhone.

Edit: Those video podcast episodes seem to add up to the 'Other' used space in iTunes every time iTunes syncs them to the device again -> MM seems to remove the video podcast episodes from the iPhone's iPod app database but the files remain on it.

[mlody11]

I noticed something strange with the iphone and I don't think it this is a problem with the dll but it does address a problem with the "updating library" "issue."

Today I saw that the other category was using 2.4GB of data and I was concerned about this. After reading some posts and poking around, I noticed that those other are probably old music files on the iphone that did not get updated and look like useless files on the phone. So, I downloaded DiskAid and switched it to "media folder" view on the bottom left, went into the itunes control folder and deleted the entire music folder. After that, I re-created the music folder and launched itunes. That got rid of the "other" category taking up 2.4gb and it now takes up 300MB. I then re-synced all the music using media monkey and now it no longer says "updating library."

One issue that I cannot get around is the fact that with the new dll, media monkey is not syncing the lyrics field with the phone. It is a minor issue and I am just glad to be using media monkey to be syncing again . God I hate itunes...

[Hank Handsome]

All sorted on the iPhone of this happy monkey
Welcome back MM - that's all I can say

Sync'd 2000+ songs, audiobooks and podcasts and all work fine, including album art and saving position in audio books.

Thanks jiri for the efforts.

[artoteme]

Wiped media from Iphone, installed .dll with MM shutdown. Connected iphone...music is synced!!!

Thanks JIRI

[azblk]

I have just uploaded an updated version that should fix all the problems previously mentioned and in addition it also fixes one more album art problem. So give it a try, there isn't any known problem.

Jiri

Thanks Jiri it's almost ready for prime time. How much do I owe you???

[marko]

There are definitely more outstanding issues with this...

Environment:
Win XP Sp3
MM 3.1.0.1256
d_iPhone.dll Aug 14 - 12:04pm
iPhone 3GS FW 3.0.1
iTunes 8.2.1.6 (configured to NOT sync music)


The sync starting from a blanked-out device is rock solid... Takes a while (for 2800 tracks) but never fails and every single album art displays properly. Great job there!

However...

Every time after the MM sync - iPhone's iPod app starts up with a screen "Updating Library..." which never used to happen before. This, in itself, is not a big deal because it only happens once after a sync and it doesn't take too long. Everything looks fine afterwards (on a device).

The problem is that this update probably DOES something because I am NEVER able to do a re-sync on a MM-synced library! E.g. if I sync once (from an empty device) then add one or two albums to my device sync profile and try to re-sync - MM copies EVERYTHING over again and previous library becomes just a space-waster (iPhone shows double the space usage)... Essentially, the only thing that works is to blank out the device (manually) and perform a new sync.

I suspect something happens when iPhone does whatever it does in the "Updating Library..." screen that, thereafter, prevents MM from reading the library correctly...

Anyone else got this problem?

Marko

[greyyguitar]

Still some strange issues to sort out.

Sync from a fresh start on my iphone 3GS with 3.0.1

Everything seems to sync with no problems.
I get the "updating Library" first time running the ipod app after a sync.
album art is almost 100% I still get a few scrambled album art pictures (down to 3 or 4 from about 50 or 60 for about 2500 songs)
I am now getting a very strange phenomenon where songs from a bunch of different artists are synched into the same album on the coverart view.
When you play the songs in that "album" the cover art is correct for each song, but each album which has a song in the "mega album" shows up as the "mega album"
Strange indeed. Is anyone else getting this?

[guest]

I'm getting the "updating library" for a minute and then BOOM - No Content on your Crappy Phone! Feel Free to download from Crappy Itunes! (i inserted the "crappy" bits).

[Guest]

I'm getting the "updating library" for a minute and then BOOM - No Content on your Crappy Phone! Feel Free to download from Crappy Itunes! (i inserted the "crappy" bits).

then i resynched it (the # of tracks synched seemed random ... not all, but not all that were updated ... just 130 random tracks) and ... Updating Library and now I have content again.

Weird.
I'm gonna go use it and see if it plays ok ...

[Impulse]

3. Album art problems were hopefully fixed, there aren't any known. Some of the reported look like that old, sometimes appearing issue of incorrect album art that however haven't been reproduced yet and it isn't clear whether it really exists and what's its source.

Jiri

I've been having random problems like that w/album art long before OS 3.0, in fact, I haven't even moved to 3.0 as I was waiting for MM support and hadn't noticed that you guys released the updated .dll for MM to work with it... I'll be testing it out in a couple of hours w/my iPod touch 16GB after I update it's firmware. Normally it seems to be tied to one specific album or song that starts messing w/other songs on the device. Like I'll see half an album cover encroaching on another track's cover and I might see that same cover start jumping to a couple other tracks... Or vice versa, I'll skip to an album that has apparently lost it's album art and it seems to steal album art from the previously played tack.

The bug does seem to have the ability to 'spread' mildly as song playback continues, but again, it's hard to say and I can certainly imagine why you've had no luck tracking this.

Usually if I re-sync the offending album (w'o even touching it's album art) it's solved on it's own and doesn't happen again for a while... It's happened maybe half a dozen times in 6 months so I haven't been too bothered about it; I don't have a huge library though, not even 100GB. Definitely can't seem to reproduce it in a reliable fashion though, I can't even seem to fix it reliably (sometimes it takes two or three syncs of any of the affected tracks in order to solve it).

FWIW, my cheap Sony Ericsson phone is able to display album art for every single song in the same library except for a single album that just never displays anything (and has never been one of the albums involved in the iPod's album art mixups), never had any problems with it otherwise. ALL my album art was tagged with MM directly to the tracks too, so I'm not really faulting MM for these quirks. I wouldn't be surprised if it's simply a problem within the device itself...