No Album Art with 2nd gen Nano

Post by **jiri** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:35 am

There is a new version uploaded to http://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/d_iPod.dll , please let me know whether it fixes the issue.

Jiri

Tankred · Post by **Tankred** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:09 am

All right, now I see the album art... BUT there is one further problem: under "artist", "album", "title" and so on, I should see the according information from the ID3 tag. But I see the title in all categories, only!

Tankred · Post by **Tankred** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:24 am

Stop! This seems to be an issue only, when I synchronize one file. When transferring many files, the menu entries seem to be all right.

Now the question is, whether this is a bug in the player or a false configuration of the MM plugin. Can anybody try this with iTunes as I have deinstalled it already!?

eyeruh · Post by **eyeruh** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:30 am

Thanks, Jiri! Album art is working now.

Tankred--I don't see the issue you're describing (using MM). The only tag data that I see missing is the "Album Artist" field, but I'm guessing it doesn't get copied since the Nano doesn't use that field anyway (near as I can tell). Also, I don't see any difference when synching multiple files vs a single file.

Tankred · Post by **Tankred** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:38 pm

Okay, thanks to jiri for his quick and competent reaction to this matter!

Today's synchronization went fine and I will observe how it wents in the future. For now, everything MM does just seems fine.

Swede · Post by **Swede** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:32 pm

Hi,

I have the 60 gig video ipod and I have been able to add album art al along. Suddenly it quit working. In itunes the album art still shows, but not on the ipod. The album art I added before the problem still shows on the Ipod as normal. What can be the reason fro this. I changed USB ports recently. Does that matter?

Mobe1969 · Post by **Mobe1969** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:53 am

Could possibly be some of the extra metadata from the new itunes/ipod version - eg gapless tags. Maybe the data structure for a song has changed in the db on the ipod and stuff is out of alignment. Just a theory

Tankred · Post by **Tankred** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:06 am

I'm still not sure how this is related to MediaMonkey, at all? Do you use MediaMonkey?

gmetzker · Post by **gmetzker** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:32 pm

I tried the new file d_iPod.dll.

When I rip a CD with MM, and Update the tags/album art via Amazon I will see the album art in MM.

But when I use MM to send this album to my IPOD I still can't see the album art on the IPOD.

If I use Itunes7 to send the album to Media Monkey (and I have auto album art update turned off) I can see the album art on my IPOD.

But I'de really like to get away from Itunes and use MM exclusivley.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Post by **jiri** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:03 am

Hmm, it really should work fine now.

You can try to send me information I requested earlier in this thread, in this http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 9737#59737 and this http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 9767#59767 posts.

Jiri

Mobe1969 · Post by **Mobe1969** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:37 am

Tankred wrote:I'm still not sure how this is related to MediaMonkey, at all? Do you use MediaMonkey?

Yes, I do use MediaMonkey.

My theory was just based on the fact that MediaMonkey has to create an ipod format database that is recognised by the ipod firmware. If the database structure changes (eg, extra field to store gapless information) mediamonkey may need to update the structure it outputs.

I'm just postulating...

Tankred · Post by **Tankred** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:52 am

Okay, maybe it helps if I explain the steps I took to make it work:

1. Erase all contents of the nano in Windows Explorer
2. Disconnect from PC
3. Restart nano -> it rewrites all infos erased on step 1 with factory defaults
4. Download this DLL:

http://www.mediamonkey.com/beta/d_iPod.dll

5. Copy it into the MM installation directory in \Plugins
6. Make a playlist called 'Synchronisation'
7. Configure the plugin in MM (Options > External Devices > Mark the iPod entry > Configure)

My settings are these:

8. Put some files into the playlist 'Synchronisation'
9. Attach the iPod nano, right click on it in MM and select the entry that starts auto synch
10. After everything was synched completely, detach the nano safely
11. Wait till the warning on your nano disappears and the menu is shown
12. Check it!

Maybe this helps.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:32 pm

I followed these directions and replaced my ipod.dll. Album art finally showed up on my ipod, but the Ipod does not really show up in MM anymore. I believe there is an error in the dll for me.
I did manage to get the test playlist sync'd but I need to be able to see the IPOD to work with this correctly.
Of course I deleted the old dll. How can I get the older one back?

Thanks
Hef

Hef · Post by **Hef** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:40 am

Just an update to the above post. I reinstalled MM which put the original .dll back in place.

Just want to say that I really Hate itunes and would really like to never use it again.
I have album art for all of my music that was added using MM. All the art is embedded in the files.

I'm having other problems also with Playlists not showing up with mm.
If anyone can help with these problems, I would appreciate it.

Thanks
Hef

gregmactaylor · Post by **gregmactaylor** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:23 pm

I've never been able to get the album art to work with my 8gig nano (2nd gen) either. i did install that dll which made it work, but now its screwed my media monkey. when i go into portable devices i get all kinds of error warnings and am not able to sync it anymore. I guess i will have to reinstall the program too to get the original dll back.... and then back to no album art.

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