Re: [Banshee-List] Digital Music Players and Banshee

[Daniel Aleksandersen <stapler bluebottle com>]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 10:49 +1000, Christopher Halse Rogers wrote:
> On 9/20/06, Daniel Aleksandersen <stapler bluebottle com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 13:01 +0100, Stephen Holmes wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 13:22 +0200, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have an 20 GB iPod 4G Video + Podcast that does not work to well with
> > > > Banshee. So I am thinking of getting a new player soon.
> > > >
> > > Should work, have you updated to Banshee 0.11 with the new releases of
> > > libipoddevice and ipod-sharp?  I also updated my ipod's firmware to v1.2
> > > through iTunes 7.  I've a 5th gen video ipod.
> > >
> > > The supported models can be listed with ipod --model-xml
> >
> > I have all updates, including the iTunes 7 firmware update. Banshee
> > converts and uploads all the music files to my iPod. But when I try to
> > play them om the iPod it just start shuffling from track to track
> > without actually playing any of them.
> 
> I've had this behaviour before, when trying to transcode to AAC rather
> than MP3 for the iPod.  Attempting to encode to AAC results in an
> unplayable file (due to the lack of an mp4 muxer in GStreamer 0.10),
> and the iPod will just fail to play it and move on to the next track.
> 
> Before you write off your iPod's support in Banshee, ensure you've got
> it set to encode to MP3.  I'm not sure whether Banshee 0.11 even has
> the option of encoding to AAC, or whether it's been removed (since it
> never worked), but it's probably worth checking :).


Banshee is set to encode to MP3. And I can play the MP3s locally, but
not on my iPod.
-- 
Daniel Aleksandersen

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