MIGHT be a MM bug- DO NOT UPDATE IPOD YET

docbobo · Post by **docbobo** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:37 pm

Using Ipod Photo 30, 1.1 Firmware and switched to "Mediamonkey only" a couple of days ago. Meaning: I restored the device and only Mediamonkey has written Audio tracks to it.
Today I updated to the 1.2 Firmware and internally the Ipod only sees 256 tracks. It seems to be the first 256 uploaded, but I might be wrong.

Mediamonkey still sees the tracks though, looks like the update corrupts the internal database. That MIGHT be a MM problem because your database manipulation is not "Apple" enough.

I do not have Itunes on my machine anymore so I can not check out wheter Itunes would see the tracks.

Post by **jiri** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:46 pm

Does the same happen if you re-synchronize tracks from MM?

Jiri

docbobo · Post by **docbobo** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:52 pm

Test Number One: Rebuild database (in MM) did NOT work. Still only 256 tracks visible inside the Ipod. MediaMonkey does show all tracks and does not sync anything to the Ipod.

I am right now restoring it, i.e. flattening the harddrive. I'll update here once a couple of hundred tracks have synchronized and I checked whether I again hit the 256 ceiling.

Boris

docbobo · Post by **docbobo** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:24 pm

I can confirm now that the new 1.2 firmware for Ipod Photo seems to read the database differently. If the database was written by MediaMonkey rather than Itunes, the Ipod can only "see" 256 tracks. The tracks seem to be in order of them getting copied onto the Ipod, so it might really be the first 256 tracks in the database.

Hope you can track this down fast - as I am Itunes-free now and also can not go back to 1.1 this is pretty devastating for my daily music usage

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:52 am

Build 873 does not fix this problem. Restored device, synched over 3300 tracks to it - they are on the Ipod but it only shows me 256 tracks.

Let me know if I can be of any further help in diagnosing this.

Post by **jiri** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 4:30 am

I was able to reproduce exactly the same problem using firmware version 1.4 for iPod Mini. There's only 256 tracks for me too. The issue is being resolved, I'll keep you updated...

(Those who haven't upgraded to the latest iPod firmware released 3 days ago are recommended not to do so yet).

Jiri

charlieMOGUL · Post by **charlieMOGUL** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:41 am

jiri wrote: (Those who haven't upgraded to the latest iPod firmware released 3 days ago are recommended not to do so yet).
Jiri

Hi,

I did NOT update my iPod color (photo) to 1.2, I still use firmware 1.1
However, when I tried to use the new iTunes (4.9) and connected the iPod, iTunes recognized only 15GB of the 40GB music on it. I heard the iPod harddrive spin and feared the worst....
When I unplugged the iPod, I could see that a lot of music was indeed removed. Checking the drive of the iPod showed only about 15GB. iTunes removed about 25GB of music!

When I plugged it in MediaMonkey again, it immediately started synching (I have auto-synch enabled) al the removed music back to the iPod. Thank you MM!
MM sees that the music is indeed removed.

It would be great when Apple would open up their software and standards.

Until then; I would recommend not using iTunes 4.9 as well!

Post by **jiri** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 1:05 pm

For your information, the problem was located and a release fixing this will be probably published today.

Jiri

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 2:39 pm

A fix already? MM is the best.

MIGHT be a MM bug- DO NOT UPDATE IPOD YET

MIGHT be a MM bug- DO NOT UPDATE IPOD YET

iTunes 4.9 removes music as well!