I just installed this plug-in.  Its a great idea, but I'm having a little trouble with it.  I have an 80gb 5th gen ipod, that does movies, photos, music, and games and all that.

The notes for the dvdprofiler list came out correctly, however all the images display as what looks like a static filled tv.

I plugged the ipod back into the computer, and looked at the covers folder on the ipod.  all the .jpg files display fine on the computer, but when the ipod tries to display them its static.

Now I did at one time see a couple of them display the cover, but they sere stretched to fit the ipods screen, and looked really bad.  Is this an issue with the exporter making the jpg files?  or a setting on my ipod?

the version that came with it.  Only had the ipod for a week now. looksl ike version 1.0.2 PC according to the ipod.

@stuthemonkey

If you only had it a couple of weeks, I'm guessing that you have the newer Ipod Classic, it's highest version is 1.0.2, the older 5th gen have version 1.2.1. Which is what I have. (You can find all the software for different Ipods here). Looks liike Apple starts there version numbering with each new ipod line. The document I based the scripts on only mentioned a limitation with photos on 5th gen version 1.2 as this was needed. But it came out before the Classic. You would hope the support wouldn't stop there. I'll see if I can find anything else written about it.

@Overseer

There is a very good chance of having flag entries exported. I had it in originally, but back it out at the last moment, can't remember the reason why. The way there were sorted I think. I'm going to take another look at it and put in back in.

@tlevel: The ipod i have is in fact an 80gb ipod classic.  So I guess thats the problem.  Interesting that I had one photo from your exporter work, then they all started failing.  But since its different software versions on the ipod, its not surprising that there are glitches with it.

Hopefully there will eventually be a fix, but at least for now I can see the listing of all of my movies.  Which is a great start.  I'd love to be able to click on them and see the description of the movie, not sure if that would be easily doable or not.  But would be nice as a flag you can set during export to export the descriptions if you wanted.

Anyway keep up the good work on the plug-in.  I'll check back ocassionally to see if you found anything out about the new classic ipods.

Thanks

I just discovered this plugin. It looks like it would be exactly what I need.

However, when I click on the "Find Ipod" button, I get the message "Notes not enabled" -- What do I need to do to enable notes?

Thanks in advance.

edit: Nevermind, I figured it out. I use Rockbox instead of the regular iPod OS, so I had deleted all default folders. All I had to do was re-create the "Notes" folders in the root of my iPod.

KM

Quoting Astrakan:

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Another question though:

tlevel, what do you mean by "the notes feature only supports up to 1000 notes"?

I'm assuming it does not mean a maximum of 1000 titles can be exported? Or does it?

KM

Hi Astrakan,

Hope you like it. Apple has limitation on it's notes features that it will only allow 1000 notes (files), maximum 4kb each file. So you can have as many titles that can fit into about 4mb of space. I was first worried about this too. As I originally wanted a 'mini' profile downloaded for each profile, but couldn't do that because my collection was above the 1000 limit also. That's why the format is what you see. Hope that helps.

Best regards,
Tlevel

You shouldn't have to worry about the number of titles at all per file. If the size gets to 4kb, it automatically starts a new file. If you don't want the covers to display you can squeeze more titles into one file, I can get about 65 -75 titles on average depending on the length of each title.

And no, you don't have to clean up the files before you do another sync, it does that also. (Warning though, you DO NOT want to keep any other files in those directories, as they will get wiped out also). But creating new directories is fine.

There is going to be a new version soon, will allow you to have a new category called "flagged".

I would also like to thank you for this plugin!!

I have however one question: the "Export to iPod" command allways ends up bellow the exit command, even if I change it in the program?

Why can't it stay where I want it to?