Re: [Banshee-List] banshee "hangs" on "waiting for transcoder"

[Christopher Friedt <cfriedt visible-assets com>]

I think I've located the problem. The transcoder got 'stuck' on trying 
to process a wma file.

Maybe a good idea for the transcoding process would be to test out all 
combinations of input / output formats and ensure that the transcoder is 
capable of handling them.

~/Chris

Christopher Friedt wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've connected a new ipod out of the box, and i've managed to copy a 
> single song to it. After dragging & dropping the song into the ipod, i 
> usually just right click on the ipod and say 'synchronize ipod -> save 
> manual changes'.
>
> Five songs also works. Safe to assume true for n songs?
>
> Apparrently not, because when I try to copy over my 'ipodlist' playlist 
> it just hangs there after I hit "save manual changes" saying that it's 
> "waiting for transcoder". After I cancel, then it still says "waiting 
> for transcoder" and the 'synchronize ipod' context menu entry is greyed 
> out so i can't try it again.
>
> I realize that copying 3416 songs might take a bit of prep time, but I 
> let it run for over an hour and there was no progress - it was still 
> waiting on the transcoder for the very first song. The CPU usage was 
> also still at zero, so I would assume that no actual transcoding was 
> taking place during this time.
>
> Is there a self-test to ensure that the transcoder is actually working? 
> Why would it work for one or five songs but not for 3416?
>
>
> ~/Chris
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