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

[Daniel Aleksandersen <stapler bluebottle com>]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 10:45 -0400, Aaron Bockover wrote:
> > Banshee is set to encode to MP3. And I can play the MP3s locally, but
> > not on my iPod.
> 
> What MP3 encoder is it using?
> 
> --Aaron

Xing MP3 160kbps

> On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 13:46 +0200, Daniel Aleksandersen wrote:
> > 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.
> 
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