Re: [Bug-gnupod] gnupod on ftp.gnu.org?

2009-08-13 Thread H. Langos
Hi Karl, On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 07:32:20PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to ask if you'd be able to resume putting gnupod releases on > ftp.gnu.org? This is something rms has asked me to pursue for all GNU > packages. (No problem also having them on savannah, if you like.) > > I

[Bug-gnupod] GNUpod 0.98.8 released

2009-08-05 Thread H. Langos
Hi there, To people subscribed to the list this is not really news but for the sake of completeness I'll post it here, too. As announced last month the new GNUpod release 0.99.8 is done. The download mirrors already contain gnupod-0.99.8.tgz. This release is mostly a bugfix release. Ubuntu users

Re: [Bug-gnupod] iPod touch / iPhone artwork

2009-07-28 Thread H. Langos
Hi Roger, As far as I know there's nobody right now working on the artwork code and that code realy needs some love and care. You are most welcome to get your hands dirty there :-) The only thing I did with artwork in gnupod was to add artwork support for podcasts and some refinement on the extr

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Duplicate Song Added

2009-07-27 Thread H. Langos
Hi Dave, On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 08:50:06PM -0400, Dave Jarvis wrote: >6. gnupod_INIT.pl -m "/media/ipod" >7. gnupod_search.pl -m "/media/ipod" -a "Belvedere" > > Results: > ID |ARTIST |ALBUM |TITLE > ===

Re: [Bug-gnupod] release 0.99.8 nearing completion

2009-07-14 Thread H. Langos
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 01:21:06AM +1000, Jacinta Richardson wrote: > H. Langos wrote: > > > Sorry, but I delayed that to the next release. Moving the documentation > > into the perl files required some changes to the build/install mechanics > > of gnupod. Those cha

Re: [Bug-gnupod] release 0.99.8 nearing completion

2009-07-14 Thread H. Langos
Hi J. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:19:43PM +1000, Jacinta Richardson wrote: > H. Langos wrote: > > > This release is mostly a bugfix release. Ubuntu users in > > particular should no longer see mktunes hanging on auto > > detection of the fwguid and 4gen nano users

[Bug-gnupod] release 0.99.8 nearing completion

2009-07-14 Thread H. Langos
Hi, After almost a year it is time to prepare a new release. It is almost done and a current snapshot of the 0.99.8 development can be downloaded here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnupod.git/snapshot/gnupod-releases/0.99.8.tar.gz This release is mostly a bugfix release. Ubuntu users in p

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Support for 4th gen iPod Shuffle

2009-07-08 Thread H. Langos
Hi gnupod gang, On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:16:28AM +0200, H. Langos wrote: > > The nice people at Automazic are lending me a 4gen iPod shuffle, > so that I can take a look at the iTunesSD format and even verify > whatever we find out. Yesterday the ipod arrived. I hope I'll

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Configure as_echo fix

2009-07-03 Thread H. Langos
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 11:14:42PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 7/3/09 10:55 PM, H. Langos wrote: > > But it seems that autoconf > > itself is not covered by the posix standard. > > > > I assumed you already knew that. :-) Naaah... just because I complai

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Configure as_echo fix

2009-07-03 Thread H. Langos
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:06:58PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 7/3/09 9:59 PM, H. Langos wrote: > > Which mac os version did you use? > > > > OS X 10.5.7 > >> The default Mac OS X sh was originally Zsh; it was changed to Bash in Mac > >> OS X

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Text::CharWidth

2009-07-03 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 09:16:41PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > There is no test for Text::CharWidth in configure required by > gnupod-delete. I'm not sure if it should be a required or an optional > module. Actually it is FindHelper's prettyprint function and the same problem

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Configure as_echo fix

2009-07-03 Thread H. Langos
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 08:37:20PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > Configure has always printed "-n" strings on my MacBook. I fixed that by > using as_echo and as_echo_n. See my patch on the rvdb/configure-fix branch. Looks good so far. I'll merge it. It's probably a shell oddity of the "echo

[Bug-gnupod] The docs are dead! Long live the docs! ;-)

2009-07-02 Thread H. Langos
Hi there, Some minutes ago the doc branch was merged. Man pages are gone. Now there's the pod style documentation within the perl files. Not all of them but if somebody writes up an "undocument" mock up, there's an include mechanism that will allow to add it with a single line to the script file

Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes.pl creates corrupt iTunesDB ?

2009-07-02 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 04:57:14PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On Wed, July 1, 2009 16:13, Jacinta Richardson wrote: > > I suspect it's a matter of laziness. > > I claim ignorance. I didn't know there was a fundamental difference > between the two ways of calling a subrouti

Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes.pl creates corrupt iTunesDB ?

2009-07-02 Thread H. Langos
G'day J, Thank you very much for the examples and the insights. It's good to know that I'm not completely off with my novice's views of code style. On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 10:30:04AM +1000, Jacinta Richardson wrote: > This practice is called named arguments and is a great way of calling > subrou

Re: [Bug-gnupod] artwork support apparently (but not really) broken on ubuntu

2009-07-02 Thread H. Langos
Hi Chris, On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 07:03:21AM +0200, chris.com wrote: > > Hello Henrik, > > The behaviour is not "intended" as you so nicely put it. > It is/was a bug and has been corrected in the 6.4.9-9 version. > From the ChangeLog: > > 2009-03-01 6.4.9-9 Cristy > * Convert returns MagickFa

Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes.pl creates corrupt iTunesDB ?

2009-07-01 Thread H. Langos
G'day J, On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 12:13:25AM +1000, Jacinta Richardson wrote: > H. Langos wrote: > FWIW, > resetxml(); > or > resetxml(@_); # if necessary > > are both many, many times preferable to: > > &resetxml; > > and the

Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes.pl creates corrupt iTunesDB ?

2009-07-01 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 08:26:30PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 6/19/09 11:07 AM, H. Langos wrote: >> Maybe the merge code should only be active if your memory saving feature is >> active? >> > > Here is the new patch that does just that.

Re: [Bug-gnupod] artwork support apparently (but not really) broken on ubuntu

2009-06-30 Thread H. Langos
Hi Chris, On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:08:58PM +0200, chris.com wrote: > H. Langos wrote: >> GNUpod's configure script tries to run "convert --version" and checks >> the returncode to determine if convert from imagemagick is installed. >> >> This (accident

[Bug-gnupod] artwork support apparently (but not really) broken on ubuntu

2009-06-30 Thread H. Langos
GNUpod's configure script tries to run "convert --version" and checks the returncode to determine if convert from imagemagick is installed. This (accidentially) works as convert accepts "--version" eventhough the correct option would be "-version". On Debian both commands return with 0, which for

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Support for 4th gen iPod Shuffle

2009-06-29 Thread H. Langos
Hi David, On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:28:13PM +0200, David Schueler wrote: > "H. Langos" wrote on 11.06.2009 12:15:58: > > > Hi David, > > > > How's that iTunes decoding site coming? I am working on a changed > ReplayGain > > support for the

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Bug-gnupod] SoundCheck/ReplayGain]

2009-06-25 Thread H. Langos
Hi chris, On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:49:13PM +0200, chris.com wrote: > > Henrik, > > H. Langos wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:05:09AM +0200, chris.com wrote: >>> Hello Henrik, >>> >>>>> Do you want me to load a 130 firmware and send you the

Re: [Bug-gnupod] bug in gnupod-tools 0.99.7

2009-06-25 Thread H. Langos
Hi Franck, the problem is known and fixed in the development branch. It has also already been reported in ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupod-tools/+bug/372723 There is a patch that changes "udevinfo" to "udevadm info": http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnupod.git/commit/?id=

Re: [Bug-gnupod] new branches

2009-06-25 Thread H. Langos
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:20:06PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 6/24/09 10:58 PM, H. Langos wrote: >> I guess the do_not_stretch_artwork feature is harmless. I'll merge >> that into master. >> > > Ok, cool. I still want to add a selectable color in g

[Bug-gnupod] new branches

2009-06-24 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, I see that you got your branches up into the central repository. Here's some suggestions for how to proceed. I guess the do_not_stretch_artwork feature is harmless. I'll merge that into master. The decrement_plid feature would be nice to include into master but I don't know how iTun

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Bug-gnupod] SoundCheck/ReplayGain]

2009-06-22 Thread H. Langos
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:05:09AM +0200, chris.com wrote: > > Hello Henrik, > >>> Do you want me to load a 130 firmware and send you the iTunesSD? >> >> That would be great. Could you find out when that firmware was released? > Well here it is. > I loaded the 130 firmware and loaded with iTunes th

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Documentation

2009-06-21 Thread H. Langos
G'day J, You took the words right out of my mind! Documentaion should stay as close as possible to the source. I've been submitting patches to gnupod_addsong for month before even learing that there was a man page that needed to be updated to reflect the changes that I had made.. I'll try to mer

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Re: problem with gnupod

2009-06-21 Thread H. Langos
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:42:19PM +1000, Jacinta Richardson wrote: > H. Langos wrote: >> Hi Adam, >> >> As you already figured out, the trouble was caused by gnupod trying to >> find the devices serial number (aka fwid). >> The problem is that gnupod used a ra

[Bug-gnupod] gnupod moved from CVS to GIT...

2009-06-19 Thread H. Langos
...and the people rejoiced. Now everybody can get a piece of gnupod by running git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/gnupod.git This creates a gnupod sub directory with the current bleeding edge development version of gnupod. One more autoconf configure make install and you've got it inst

Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes.pl creates corrupt iTunesDB ?

2009-06-19 Thread H. Langos
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:49:56AM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On Fri, June 19, 2009 10:27, H. Langos wrote: > > Good thing you mention tunes2pod. Please try to make your changes > > optional. > > Something like a "--merge" option to express that you are

Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes.pl creates corrupt iTunesDB ?

2009-06-19 Thread H. Langos
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:01:40AM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On Thu, June 18, 2009 08:22, H. Langos wrote: > > Did I mention before that I hate perl? :-) > > In about every other post to this list. ;-) To me, the things about perl > that I sometimes hate let me very

Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes.pl creates corrupt iTunesDB ?

2009-06-17 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:00:16PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 6/17/09 10:41 AM, H. Langos wrote: >>> - $mktunes->WriteItunesDB; >>> + $mktunes->WriteItunesDB(Keep=>$opts{'keepattr'}); >>> >> >> Shou

Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes.pl creates corrupt iTunesDB ?

2009-06-17 Thread H. Langos
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:11:06PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On Wed, June 17, 2009 10:41, H. Langos wrote: > > Your mhod skipping code should only be active if that option is set in > > your .gnupodrc or given as command line switch. > > That is the case now. I

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Do not stretch artwork

2009-06-17 Thread H. Langos
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:58:42AM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote: > 2009/6/17 H. Langos : > > > I think SysInfoExtended is written by gtkpod. I think it was ment as a > > more readable version of apple's SysInfo file. But newer iPods don't have > > that SysI

Re: [Bug-gnupod] SoundCheck/ReplayGain

2009-06-17 Thread H. Langos
Hi chris, On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:26:12PM +0200, chris.com wrote: > H. Langos wrote: >> Hi chris, >> >> I borrowed an ipod shuffle 3gen (what apple calls "iPod shuffle 2nd >> generation Early 2008") from a collegue but that one seems to be >> up to

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Do not stretch artwork

2009-06-17 Thread H. Langos
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:08:00PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 6/15/09 6:01 PM, Christophe Fergeau wrote: >> The background color is specified in the SysInfoExtended file if you >> are using/parsing it. >> > > Thanks for the suggestion, but gnupod currently doen't parse this file. > I t

Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes.pl creates corrupt iTunesDB ?

2009-06-17 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:05:16PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 6/16/09 12:44 AM, H. Langos wrote: >> My first idea now is to >> strip the iTunesDB of the stuff that is optional. >> > > Thanks again for the suggestion, that worked really wel

Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes.pl creates corrupt iTunesDB ?

2009-06-16 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:46:47AM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On Tue, June 16, 2009 00:44, H. Langos wrote: > > My first idea now is to > > strip the iTunesDB of the stuff that is optional. > > Absolutely. I was thinking the same thing. More along the l

Re: [Bug-gnupod] SoundCheck/ReplayGain

2009-06-16 Thread H. Langos
Hi chris, I borrowed an ipod shuffle 3gen (what apple calls "iPod shuffle 2nd generation Early 2008") from a collegue but that one seems to be up to date too. All the volume adjustment fields are "00 00 00" Does the "revision" as shown by udev represent the firmware version? > ID_VENDOR=Apple >

Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes.pl creates corrupt iTunesDB ?

2009-06-15 Thread H. Langos
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:57:22PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 13-6-2009 22:36, Richard van den Berg wrote: > > I'm now starting to think it's a RAM issue. According to > > http://ipodlinux.org/wiki/Generations#Fifth_Generation_.285G.29_.2F_Fifth_Generation_Enhanced_.285.5G.29 > > my 30

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Do not stretch artwork

2009-06-15 Thread H. Langos
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 05:12:00PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > >Are you sure that white is always the best way? I think the ipod touch > >is generally black and thus back might be better there? > > Do you want to use the color of the iPod housing? > I was going for the background of the

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Do not stretch artwork

2009-06-15 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, Nice patch. I was too lazy to do it myself but I appreciate that patch. I'll commit it as soon as I can. On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:06:02PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > I might still convert the artwork generation to Image::Magick, but in > the meantime here is a patch to no

[Bug-gnupod] Performance of gnupod on large data sets

2009-06-13 Thread H. Langos
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:51:18PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > > To get some numbers on the performance you could do me a favor and add a > > single file to the rather full ipod while profiling the perl process. > > > > The results are at: > With 11600 files http://richard.vdberg.org/

Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes.pl creates corrupt iTunesDB ?

2009-06-13 Thread H. Langos
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 04:33:43PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On Fri, June 12, 2009 15:21, Heinrich Langos wrote: > > I'd like to have a chain like this: ok -> ok -> broken > > Here is such a chain: > > http://richard.vdberg.org/gnupod/ok/11181/iTunesDB > http://richard.vdberg.org/gnup

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [Bug-gnupod] Support for 4th gen iPod Shuffle

2009-06-11 Thread H. Langos
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 12:36:54AM +0200, D. Schueler wrote: > "H. Langos" wrote on 01.06.2009 22:00:21: > > > Hi David, > > > > 4. When allowing users to upload files, create a separate directory > > [...] > > Will come this week. >

Re: [Bug-gnupod] SoundCheck/ReplayGain

2009-06-06 Thread H. Langos
Hi chris, On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 10:10:16AM +0200, chris.com wrote: > This time I added the RG values (-9, -6, ...) to the mp3 files and told > foobar to apply non-losslessly the RG to the files and I removes all the > ReplayGain tags > I loaded the files in iTunes for it to add the SoundChe

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [Bug-gnupod] Support for 4th gen iPod Shuffle

2009-06-01 Thread H. Langos
Hi David, On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 02:10:46PM +0200, ad...@schueler.homeip.net wrote: > "H. Langos" wrote on 01.06.2009 11:44:57: > > > On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 01:14:20AM +0200, ad...@schueler.homeip.net > wrote: > > > "H. Langos" wrote on 30.05.2009

[Bug-gnupod] Re: Support for 4th gen iPod Shuffle

2009-05-30 Thread H. Langos
nks shows: On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:39:57AM +0200, H. Langos wrote: > Regarding the iTunesSD file created by iTunes 8.1 for the talking shuffle: > > 62 64 68 73 03 00 00 02 40 00 00 00 36 00 00 00 |bdhs@...6...| ^1 ^2 ^1 look

Re: [henrik-gnu...@prak.org: Re: [Bug-gnupod] Support for 4th gen iPod Shuffle]

2009-05-30 Thread H. Langos
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:39:57AM +0200, H. Langos wrote: > > The database looks much more like the iTunesDB but it shows that it is > big-endian. Apparently they put the headers strings in 32bit integers and > saved them in reversed byte order. just look at the start... > &qu

[henrik-gnu...@prak.org: Re: [Bug-gnupod] Support for 4th gen iPod Shuffle]

2009-05-30 Thread H. Langos
Forwarded to the list to be archived... --- Begin Message --- On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:16:51AM +0200, ad...@schueler.homeip.net wrote: > "H. Langos" wrote on 29.05.2009 13:14:11: > > >

[ad...@schueler.homeip.net: Re: [Bug-gnupod] Support for 4th gen iPod Shuffle]

2009-05-30 Thread H. Langos
Forwarded to the list to be archived... --- Begin Message --- "H. Langos" wrote on 29.05.2009 13:14:11: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:54:58PM +0200, ad...@schueler.homeip.net wrote: > > Hi Henrik, > > > > thank you for spending time on that issue. > > I

Re: [Bug-gnupod] 4th generation iPod Nano

2009-05-29 Thread H. Langos
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 02:38:31PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2009 14:16, H. Langos wrote: > > It certainly wouldn't hurt to put some iTunesDB files away to have some > > data for verification if somebody sits down to reverse engineer that part > &

Re: [Bug-gnupod] 4th generation iPod Nano

2009-05-29 Thread H. Langos
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:13:08PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/27/09 11:47 PM, Richard van den Berg wrote: >> I'll post a full patch including the documentation side later. >> > > Here is the patch to make the artwork work for the 4th generation iPod Nano. > Thank you very much! I

Re: [Bug-gnupod] 4th generation iPod Nano

2009-05-29 Thread H. Langos
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:38:12PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/27/09 11:48 AM, H. Langos wrote: >> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:29:11AM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: >> >>> I temporarily have access to a 4th generation iPod Nano. During the >>

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Support for 4th gen iPod Shuffle

2009-05-29 Thread H. Langos
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:54:58PM +0200, ad...@schueler.homeip.net wrote: > Hi Henrik, > > thank you for spending time on that issue. > I did some engeneering on the iTunesDB file ( > http://evil.madrax.de/itunesdb.html) and wondered why the file does not Thats a nice link. Do you know how that

Re: [Bug-gnupod] SoundCheck/ReplayGain

2009-05-28 Thread H. Langos
Hi Chris, On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:11:18PM +0200, chris.com wrote: > Thanks Henrik for the time spent on this problem > > H. Langos wrote: >> Hi chris, >> >> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:33:53PM +0200, chris.com wrote: >> some html... please reconfigure your emai

Re: Antwort: Re: [Bug-gnupod] Support for 4th gen iPod Shuffle

2009-05-28 Thread H. Langos
Hi David, I just yesterday realized that the iPod shuffle (at least the older ones) does not read the iTunesDB file but the iTunesSD file. I'll try to take another look at the issue. cheers -henrik On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 01:33:48PM +0200, ad...@schueler.homeip.net wrote: > "H. L

Re: [Bug-gnupod] SoundCheck/ReplayGain

2009-05-27 Thread H. Langos
Hi chris, On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:33:53PM +0200, chris.com wrote: some html... please reconfigure your email client... :-) about CVS: here's the projects main page on savannah: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnupod There you'll find a link to the CVS repository and information on how to use

Re: [Bug-gnupod] 4th generation iPod Nano

2009-05-27 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:29:11AM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > I temporarily have access to a 4th generation iPod Nano. During the > gnupod_INIT I see a bunch of: > > /usr/bin/tunes2pod: skipping unknown entry of type '32' > > Should I see where these warnings come from, or

Re: [Bug-gnupod] SoundCheck/ReplayGain

2009-05-26 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 07:46:08AM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > Hello Chris, > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 23:06, chris.com wrote: > > - gnupod 0.99.7 > > Gnupod only supports ReplayGain in the current CVS version (which I > believe is labeled as 0.99.8). The 0.99.7 version releas

Re: [Bug-gnupod] SoundCheck/ReplayGain

2009-05-26 Thread H. Langos
Hi Chris, On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:06:45PM +0200, chris.com wrote: > > I first fetch the RG-tag from the FLAC file and transform it to its > SoundCheck equivalent > Then I transform the file with flac and lame to a music-only mp3 file > (no tags). > Next I add (with id3v2) an iTunNORM commen

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Append artist to title in iTunesDB

2009-05-25 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, There are (hopefully) not that many braindead devices out there. At least they are probably not all braindead in the same way. :-) Currently I think it should not be in the code base. This may change if more people report the same problem. cheers -henrik On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 09:

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-05-25 Thread H. Langos
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:22:17PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/24/09 2:33 AM, H. Langos wrote: >> One thing to keep in mind is that the --min-vol-adj and --max-vol-adj now >> only affect the RVA/RVAD tag information instead of something extracted >> from RVA2 ta

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-05-23 Thread H. Langos
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 01:11:41PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/22/09 11:38 PM, H. Langos wrote: >> Just commited it all to CVS. >> Please take a look and see if it does the right thing for your music >> collection. >> > > Great. It works fin

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-05-22 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:35:57AM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/10/09 1:35 AM, H. Langos wrote: >> I guess we should go this way: >> >> 1. Use RVA2/XRVA or (if the former is missing) REPLAY_GAIN_x to compute a >>new "soundcheck" v

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-05-12 Thread H. Langos
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 08:34:57PM +0200, H. Langos wrote: > > Yes. We would leave volume alone and go for soundcheck instead. > > We would stop using that crude one byte and start using that 32bit dBm > value. At least thats what it is supposed to encode. > > I just grepe

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-05-11 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:53:42PM +0200, H. Langos wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:35:57AM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > > > Do you want to wait until we have a all of the above working before you > > commit my current ReplayGain patches to CVS? >

Re: [Bug-gnupod] gnupod_addsong.pl --artwork without ImageMagick

2009-05-11 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 06:21:29PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > > I looked at the code for gnupod_addsong.pl but could not find the cause > for this behaviour. > > Installing ImageMagick of course fixed the issue. Artwork handling on the iPod is still kind of dark voodoo to

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Re: problem with gnupod

2009-05-11 Thread H. Langos
Hi Adam, As you already figured out, the trouble was caused by gnupod trying to find the devices serial number (aka fwid). The problem is that gnupod used a rather crude way to look for the device in /sys/block and ubuntu has recently made some big changes there. The problem you describe has b

Re: [Bug-gnupod] DESC field in iTunesDB / lyrics display

2009-05-10 Thread H. Langos
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 06:15:12PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/10/09 6:00 PM, Richard van den Berg wrote: >> What do you mean by "all the time"? My iPod shows the artwork during >> the volume and position display, but not during the rating one. >> > > I just checked, and the artwo

Re: [Bug-gnupod] DESC field in iTunesDB / lyrics display

2009-05-10 Thread H. Langos
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 06:00:08PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/9/09 5:04 PM, H. Langos wrote: >> Are you sure that the postings you've read about lyrics display where >> talking about your model? >> > > Yes. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.ph

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-05-10 Thread H. Langos
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:35:57AM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/10/09 1:35 AM, H. Langos wrote: >> I guess we should go this way: >> >> 1. Use RVA2/XRVA or (if the former is missing) REPLAY_GAIN_x to compute a >>new "soundcheck" value. >

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-05-09 Thread H. Langos
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 12:13:01PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/9/09 9:14 AM, Frank Blendinger wrote: >> I'll talk to the mpd developers to see if they are willing to support >> RVA2/RGAD and/or APE tags. > > I used mpd before switching to a Squeezebox. IIRC it is written in perl. >

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-05-09 Thread H. Langos
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 05:29:50PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > Since you already came to the conclusion that mp3gain is about the only > implementation of the Replay Gain algorithm, I'm sure it uses 89dB as > well. From mp3gain.c: > >> /* the TAG version of the suggested Track Gain sho

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-05-09 Thread H. Langos
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 06:37:19PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/9/09 6:01 PM, H. Langos wrote: >> The volume attribute however is limited in its scale. it can only go from >> -100% to +100%. The lower bound is ok as it represents silence, but the >> upper bound is

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-05-09 Thread H. Langos
Hi Frank, On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 12:14:53PM +0200, Frank Blendinger wrote: > > On Thu 2009-05-07 21:16, Richard van den Berg > proclaimed: > > On 5/7/09 5:06 PM, H. Langos wrote: > >> What's important is the fact that there seems to be a standard that defines &g

Re: [Bug-gnupod] DESC field in iTunesDB / lyrics display

2009-05-09 Thread H. Langos
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 04:03:09PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/9/09 3:52 PM, H. Langos wrote: >>> I forced the lyrics_flag to 1 in mk_mhit() but I still don't see the >>> description. Pressing the center button I still cycle through: >>> >>

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-05-09 Thread H. Langos
Sorry about that. It's fixed now. cheers -henrik On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 01:04:15PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/8/09 2:26 PM, H. Langos wrote: >> BTW: I just added XRVA support as it is a too simple to let it pass. >> > > Always test before commit.

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-05-09 Thread H. Langos
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 04:16:45PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/8/09 2:26 PM, H. Langos wrote: >> Yeap. And if mp3gain can't be changed to do write RVA2 tags by itself, >> maybe there is a way to make mp3gain only do the analysis and pass its >> result to

Re: [Bug-gnupod] DESC field in iTunesDB

2009-05-09 Thread H. Langos
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 12:54:33PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/8/09 11:51 AM, H. Langos wrote: >> Smart playlists can have a "desc" attribute? I didn't know that. Does >> tunes2pod retain it? If so, could you send me the relevant lines from >

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-05-08 Thread H. Langos
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:16:51PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/7/09 5:06 PM, H. Langos wrote: >> What's important is the fact that there seems to be a standard that defines >> how volume adjustment data can be stored in id3 tags. > > Nice research. RVA2 is

Re: [Bug-gnupod] DESC field in iTunesDB

2009-05-08 Thread H. Langos
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 06:23:01PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/7/09 1:50 PM, H. Langos wrote: >> I wasn't aware of a limitation to 40 characters. This seems a rather >> arbitrary limit imposed on the user by itunes. It doesn't even resemble the >> orig

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-05-07 Thread H. Langos
> RVA2 > A most flexible definition seems RVA2 as defined in id3v2.4.0 . It allows to > define several adjustment sets. Using an "Identification" string that could > take > the role of the "Radio" vs, "Audiophile" distinctions AND in each of those > adjustment sets each channel can have a di

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-05-07 Thread H. Langos
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:51:04AM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 5/7/09 10:09 AM, H. Langos wrote: >> Did you check when (at which version) MP3::Info gained APE support? > > I did just now and APE support was added in MP3::Info v1.20, Saturday, > January 7, 2006 &

Re: [Bug-gnupod] DESC field in iTunesDB

2009-05-07 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:57:23PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > When I first started ripping all my CDs I made the decision that the ID3 > genre field was too limiting, so I split my collection into different > directories named after genres and/or source of the CDs > (wi

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-04-20 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 04:45:03PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > Hi Henrik, > > I agree with your reasoning in principle (and will provide a patch for the > --noAPEtag option) but if you had ever tried to use iTunes' SoundCheck and > compare it against ReplayGain, you wouldn't

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Patch to support ReplayGain / mp3gain

2009-04-20 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:02:22PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > I'm successfully using gnupod on my iPod video 30GB. Thanks to everyone > who contributed to this great tool! > > I have all my mp3s tagged for ReplayGain volume leveling using mp3gain. > This tool adds ReplayGain

Re: [Bug-gnupod] gnupod_INIT does not read ~/.gnupodrc

2009-04-20 Thread H. Langos
Hi Richard, On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 12:09:59AM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > I just found that gnupod_INIT does not read ~/.gnupodrc for the iPod > mount point. No biggie, just wanted to let you know. I'm not sure if this is a safety feature, a result of development history (gnupod_INIT wa

Re: [Bug-gnupod] SysInfo.pm uses udevinfo, giving deprecation warning

2009-04-17 Thread H. Langos
Hi Frank, On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:28:00AM +0200, Frank Blendinger wrote: > On Thu 2009-04-16 20:34, H. Langos proclaimed: > > Thanks for the information. Do you know if changing from "udevinfo" to > > "udevadm info" will be completely compatible? I.e. is &

Re: [Bug-gnupod] SysInfo.pm uses udevinfo, giving deprecation warning

2009-04-16 Thread H. Langos
Hi Frank, Thanks for the information. Do you know if changing from "udevinfo" to "udevadm info" will be completely compatible? I.e. is "udevadm info" already available when "udevinfo" is ? Otherwise I'd have to add a check for old systems and that path in the code would grow obsolete after a whi

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Questions about play counts

2009-04-11 Thread H. Langos
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 03:13:05PM +0200, Frank Blendinger wrote: > On Fri 2009-04-10 23:04, H. Langos proclaimed: > > > > E.g. > > gnupod_find.pl --sort "lastplay" --view "lastplay,default" > > gnupod_find is not (yet?) in the Debian package of

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Questions about play counts

2009-04-10 Thread H. Langos
Hi Frank, My knowledge of the iPod is limited to say the least but I'll try to answer anyway. I can be completely wrong or even completely mad ... hey, it's the internet. dont trust anybody ;-) There used to be last-fm support builtin in gnupod. I don't know why it was removed. Happend before I

Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes 0.99.7-CVS on ubuntu 9.04 gets stuck

2009-04-07 Thread H. Langos
;ll add that later but please let me know if the current CVS version fixes your problem. -henrik On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 03:00:55PM +0200, H. Langos wrote: > Hi Craig, > > I think I've seen a similar behavior before. Currently the code > scans every entry in /sys/block to find the

Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes 0.99.7-CVS on ubuntu 9.04 gets stuck

2009-04-07 Thread H. Langos
Hi Craig, I think I've seen a similar behavior before. Currently the code scans every entry in /sys/block to find the ipod's device node and to extract the serial number for the omnious "fwid". I think it could be limited to scan just for the "sd*" entries but depending on the permissions you c

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Support for 4th gen iPod Shuffle

2009-04-02 Thread H. Langos
-henrik On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:49:18AM +0200, H. Langos wrote: > Hi David, > > Did you use gnupod before on a different iPod model? > > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:44:48AM +0200, ad...@schueler.homeip.net wrote: > > Hello gnupod devs! > > > > Is there so

Re: [Bug-gnupod] Support for 4th gen iPod Shuffle

2009-04-02 Thread H. Langos
Hi David, Did you use gnupod before on a different iPod model? On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:44:48AM +0200, ad...@schueler.homeip.net wrote: > Hello gnupod devs! > > Is there some development going on at gnupod? Yeap. Alive and kickin .. well maybe noch kickin but still standing on its feet :-) >

Re: [Bug-gnupod] New Shuffle played flag and bookmark flag

2009-02-24 Thread H. Langos
Hi Nathan, > Thanks for the great software I'm glad somebody is using gnupod. There's no download counter for gnupod (at least I havn't found it) so I don't have a clue about its user base. I also don't Adrian is pretty busy with other stuff so the project currently "feels" a sleepy. Now back

[Bug-gnupod] Using iPhone and iPod touch v2.x with gnupod

2009-02-19 Thread H. Langos
Hi, As you all know the new iPhone and iPod touch (version 2.x) use a new hash schema to prevent non-iTunes software from managing the device. However there seems to be a limited workaround by telling the playback software on those devices that the database is in an older format: http://marcan

Re: [Bug-gnupod] iPod Nano 4G success with GNUPod 0.99.6-5 (Ubuntu)

2009-02-18 Thread H. Langos
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:04:26AM +, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:41 PM, H. Langos wrote: > > What was the command line and the output of the atempt with the artwork? > > I added a song and did: > > $ gnupod_search --artist=The_Artist -

[Bug-gnupod] question regarding smartlist handling in gnupod_search.pl

2009-02-15 Thread H. Langos
Hi, As I announced a while ago I doing a rewrite of gnupod_search.pl Reading the source of gnupod_search I've found something strange in the newpl handler. # Eventhandler for PLAYLIST items sub newpl { # Delete or rename needs to rebuild the XM

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