Re: [Banshee-List] iPod issues in latest version (new users)

[amiantos <amiantos gmail com>]

I didn't want to just leave this in the air, but I wanted to follow up and
say that I gave up and reinstalled Windows Vista. When I reinstalled iTunes,
I encountered the same problem I got here: iTunes would sync my iPod, put
all the music on it, but nothing would show up on the iPod itself. I had to
do a full Restore in order to get my iPod working again. At some point in
the process of trying to get Banshee working, I guess I just hosed my iPod
completely. I don't think there was anything I could have done within Linux
to fix it.

I'm just going to stick with Windows, so I'll be unable to do any sort of
testing, sorry.


knocte wrote:
> 
> Hello. Thanks for your interest in Banshee. Sorry for the late response.
> See inline reply please:
> 
> El 24/03/10 15:55, amiantos escribió:
>> <snip>
>> busted, and it works even when I disconnect the iPod. Huzzah! So I
>> connect
>> it up to Banshee again and let it sync my 50 gigs again while I sleep and
>> when I wake up... Banshee is blanked out and frozen again. I kill it,
>> disconnect my iPod, and sure enough, the only things that are on it are
>> the
>> couple of songs I transfered with gtkpod. 
> 
> There are still bugs out there that prevent some songs to be synced. For
> example, some time ago I reported a bug[1] which ended up being a Mono's
> bug on the Uri class, for which I proposed a patch, and thanks that the
> fix got in some branches, now any person that had a song with the "@"
> character in its file name, can sync the song successfully.
> 
> I'm also lately debugging another bug that I happen to reproduce with
> just 1 song of my 1800songs music library. If I remove that song, all
> the sync process goes smoothly.
> 
> What I mean with all this is that a 50 GB library has a lot of chances
> to meet this kind of bugs, but it's with the help of users like you the
> only way to find them and fix them. So, please, if you have time, would
> you try to spot the bug for us with the following techniques:
> 
> 1) Try the same sync process you tried, but running banshee from the
> console. So, when Banshee freezes, you can go to the console, hit CTRL+C
> to kill it, and copy to the clipboard the last debug output you see.
> Chances are that in that debug output there's an exception printed that
> helps us start determining the cause of the problem.
> 
> 2) Try finding the offending song(s) that cause the problem by doing a
> binary search on your collection. For example, divide your 50 GB in 2
> groups of 25GB, and try to sync one of the groups. If group A fails,
> divide group A in 2 subgroups again, if group A doesn't fail, divide
> group B in 2 subgroups, and so on.
> 
> Please keep us posted about the problem! Thanks,
> 
> 	Andres
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592638
> 
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