MM wont synchronize with iPod (already searched everywhere)

[dbarona]

Hello,

Recently I had to reformat my computer from some booting problems. Before reformatting, i made sure to back up all my music as well as MM's database file from the My Music folder. I also backed up all the input plugins that I had added to MM. After getting my computer running again, and updating Windows and all the drivers and all the programs, i installed MediaMonkey. Then I copied back the database file and the plugins to their original/respective locations in C:\. I tried MM again and everything played fine. After making sure that the play counts, ratings and all were intact, i proceeded to connect the ipod. The program recognized the ipod as always with the same synchronization settings as before. However, the little bar at the bottom that shows synchronization progress was only visible for a split second. I thought that there weren't any changes on either to synchronize.

I played around with both the ipod and MM for a while, and after connecting the ipod back to the computer, the same thing happened. It 'synchronized' in a split second, which i knew was not possible. I restarted the ipod, rebuilt the database, reformatted the ipod with a pc and with a mac, tried to synchronize with itunes (which it did just fine), then back to MM, uninstalled MM, reinstalled, installed official version, installed beta version, tried different installation paths... i think that covers it all. The ipod definitely synchronizes fine with itunes in both a mac and a pc, but for some reason MM just won't synch to it automatically, although it does read all of it's contents perfectly.

The interesting part now is that i CAN synchronize music to the ipod with mediamonkey only by right clicking a song or playlist and then SEND TO > IPOD. However, i can't manage to get it to work automatically or with the 'Auto-Synchronize' option when right clicking the ipod node.

I bet the solution to this is probably short and simple, but i just can't figure it out.

Thanks in advance,

DBARONA

P.S.: I also ran the debugger and when i try to auto-synch, it just throws a bunch of stuff that at first glance seems to be normal, except for a line every so often that says that c:\Windows\CDPlayer.ini cannot be found. Also, when initializing the ipod synch, it says that something like "IPOD Playcount file cannot be found" or something like that. I can't exactly check at this very instant.

[dbarona]

Here's what i get from the debug. The last 15-20 lines starting with 'New Exception' repeat themselves a few times.

[7492] Going to make final callback 7984
[7492] Thread has finished 7984
[7492] Node Library going to clear SongList.
[7492] Node Library starting.
[7492] Node Library going to clear SongList.
[7492] Node David's Ipod - iPod (Q:) going to clear SongList.
[7492] Node David's Ipod - iPod (Q:) starting.
[7492] Node David's Ipod - iPod (Q:) going to clear SongList.
[7492] IPOD: Going to read iTunesDB
[7492] IPOD: iTunesDB content in memory
[7492] IPOD: Reading track list
[7492] IPOD: Reading playlists
[7492] IPOD: Reading playlists
[7492] IPOD: Playcounts file not found
[7492] IPOD: Processing on the go playlists
[7492] IPOD: Going to read ArtworkDB
[7492] IPOD: ArtworkDB content in memory
[7492] GetFileInfo: Q:\iPod_Control\Music\F19\Calle 13 - _Atrevete Te, Te.mp3
[7492] GetFileInfo: readPictures=spAlways
[7492] GetFileInfo: Q:\iPod_Control\Music\F19\Calle 13 - _Atrevete Te, Te.mp3
[7492] Added Cover Lists: 1
[7492] MP3.ReadHeader Q:\iPod_Control\Music\F19\Calle 13 - _Atrevete Te, Te.mp3
[7492] MP3.ReadHeader - File size 3860480
[7492] MP3.ReadHeader - Found ID3v2, length: 47500
[7492] MP3.ReadHeader framestarts: 47510, 47510
[7492] MP3.ReadHeader CheckMoreHeaders started
[7492] MP3.ReadHeader CheckMoreHeaders Endtest: 50582
[7492] MP3.ReadHeader CheckMoreHeaders finished
[7492] MP3.ReadHeader finished
[7492] MP3: Going to read tag from Q:\iPod_Control\Music\F19\Calle 13 - _Atrevete Te, Te.mp3
[7492] Added Covers: 1
[7492] MP3: Tag read from Q:\iPod_Control\Music\F19\Calle 13 - _Atrevete Te, Te.mp3
[7492] 0 DB open SQL: SELECT Songs.*, Artists.Artist, Albums.Album, AlbArt.Id as IDAlbArt, AlbArt.Artist as AlbArt
[7492] FROM Songs, Artists, Albums, Artists AlbArt
[7492] WHERE Songs.IDAlbum=Albums.ID AND Songs.IDArtist=Artists.ID AND AlbArt.ID=Albums.IDArtist
[7492] AND Songs.IDMedia = -1 AND Songs.SongPath = ':\iPod_Control\Music\F19\Calle 13 - _Atrevete Te, Te.mp3'
[7492] 0 DB lock finished, took 22153230.
[7492] MP3.ReadHeader Q:\iPod_Control\Music\F19\Calle 13 - _Atrevete Te, Te.mp3
[7492] MP3.ReadHeader - File size 3860480
[7492] MP3.ReadHeader - Found ID3v2, length: 47500
[7492] MP3.ReadHeader framestarts: 47510, 47510
[7492] MP3.ReadHeader CheckMoreHeaders started
[7492] MP3.ReadHeader CheckMoreHeaders Endtest: 50582
[7492] MP3.ReadHeader CheckMoreHeaders finished
[7492] MP3.ReadHeader finished
[7492] MP3: Going to read tag from Q:\iPod_Control\Music\F19\Calle 13 - _Atrevete Te, Te.mp3
[7492] Remaining Covers: 0
[7492] Added Covers: 1
[7492] MP3: Tag read from Q:\iPod_Control\Music\F19\Calle 13 - _Atrevete Te, Te.mp3
[7492] New thread starting 1
[7492] New thread starting 2
[7492] Thread has started 8028
[7492] Thread registered, going to initialize 8028
[7492] Thread initialized 8028
[7492] 8028 DB exec SQL: UPDATE Devices SET LastAutoSynch=39112.862884468 WHERE ID=48
[7492] 8028 DB lock successful.
[7492] 8028 DB lock finished, took 4268325.
[7492] 8028 DB open SQL: SELECT * FROM DeviceTracks WHERE IDDevice=48
[7492] 8028 DB lock finished, took 6301192.
[7492] --------------------------------------------------------
[7492] New exception:
[7492] Exception code: 2460516
[7492] Exception flags: 1677721600
[7492] Number of parameters: 1360477
[7492] (no debug info) Find error: E58B0000
[7492]
[7492] --------------------------------------------------------
[7492] New exception:
[7492] Delphi exception, type ESQLerror, message: HY000:[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Not a valid bookmark.
[7492] Exception code: 250477278
[7492] Exception flags: 3
[7492] Number of parameters: 7
[7492] (no debug info) Find error: 7C812A5B
[7492] call stack - 0 : Module mQueryHe.pas Routine @TmCustomQuery@CheckSQLResult Line 52 Find error: 00540E2B
[7492] call stack - 1 : Module mquery.pas Routine @TmCustomQuery@GetRecord Line 1032 Find error: 00543929
[7492] call stack - 2 : Module Db.pas Routine @TDataSet@GetNextRecord Line 9892 Find error: 0053BF82
[7492] call stack - 3 : Module Db.pas Routine @TDataSet@Next Line 10214 Find error: 0053C775
[7492] call stack - 4 : Module Devices.pas Routine @TDeviceSynchronization@SynchronizeDevice Line 2076 Find error: 0060A6B0
[7492] call stack - 5 : Module Devices.pas Routine SynchronizeDevice_Var Line 1712 Find error: 00609764
[7492] call stack - 6 : Module GenThread.pas Routine @TGenThread@Execute Line 511 Find error: 004D26B5
[7492] call stack - 7 : Module Classes.pas Routine ThreadProc Line 9474 Find error: 0042D7A6
[7492] call stack - 8 : Routine ThreadWrapper Find error: 0040540E
[7492] call stack - 9 : (no debug info) Find error: 7C80B67F
[7492] call stack - 10 : (no debug info) Find error: FFFFFFFC
[7492]
[7492] --------------------------------------------------------

[dbarona]

I think that this problem is now fixed for good .

First of all, I went to 'My Music' folder and unchecked the 'read-only' attributes for the whole folder, subfolders and files inside the 'MediaMonkey' folder. Now that all the files can be written to, I went to MM > FILE > MAINTAIN LIBRARY. Didn't even have to restart the program, it works now and the iPod is synchronizing properly.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU WITH SIMILAR PROBLEMS