Re: [Banshee-List] iPod Sync Issues

[Michael Martin-Smucker <mlmartin13 gmail com>]

Sorry to hear about the problem, but good work tracking it down -- it definitely sounds more like a bug than a problem on your end. �At this point, you probably have enough information to create a useful bug report... for more information, see:�http://banshee.fm/contribute/help-with-bug-reports/

Michael

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Steven Benedict <skinuke3000 yahoo com> wrote:

Hi:
I have been banging my head against a wall for almost 2 months. I am trying to switch from Macintosh and Windows to Ubuntu. All is going nice and smoothly except for banshee. I really like banshee as a media player except for one thing; the iPod sync capabilities seem to be a bit short of acceptable.

The Setup:
���� iPod classic 160 GB (I think 6 gen) [it is the one that came out when they sold both the 80 GB and the 160 GB before they had just the 120 GB (3 resizes back?)
���� iPod has been restored with Windows version of iTunes (running in Virtualbox)
���� Ubuntu 10.04
���� Banshee 1.6.1 (latest from the banshee ppa)
����
The Problem:
This issue has come close to putting me on lithium. When I sync my iPod in banshee, the iPod goes through everything and appears to have gone through the sync without a hitch. I can play songs from my iPod through banshee and everything before I disconnect. The problem manifests its self when I disconnect. THE SONGS ARE GONE! My iPod informs me that it is nice and clean of any and all media.

Solutions That Didn't Work:
I have been trying to figure this one out for a while. I have tried removing the songs mentioned above from the music library so they wouldn't be loaded onto the iPod, I have tried changing read/write permissions of the iPod like a few forums have suggested a few years back, I have also tried both rebuilding, and not rebuilding, the database, and a number of other methods. NONE WORKED! The only thing that did work was stopping the sync part way through. However, this just simply is not feasible, I have 25000 songs and I can't work that way.

Banshee Warnings:
After all of this trial and error, I decided to run banshee through the terminal so I could see any warnings or errors that occur. A few times banshee would crash Linux. However, the other times I caught a Warning that occurred sometime after the second stage of the syncing (adds the files fine and i think it goes through the entire sync, it may occur somewhere around the flushing stage). This Warning states that it can't save the iPod database to the iPod. I feel like this is a very major problem. I assume that the iPod database tells the iPod where to find the music and if it can't be updated then the songs are existent but not visible to the iPod's GUI.

Here is a copy of the Warning:

[Warn� 22:59:09.404] Failed to save iPod database - System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object (in `ipod-sharp')
� at IPod.ImageNameRecord.SetData (System.IO.Stream stream, System.Byte[] data, Int32 offset) [0x00000]
� at IPod.ImageNameRecord.SetData (System.IO.Stream stream, System.Byte[] data) [0x00000]
� at IPod.PhotoDatabase.SaveThumbnails (System.Collections.Generic.List`1 existingNames, System.Collections.Generic.List`1 newNames, System.Collections.Generic.List`1 removedNames, IPod.ArtworkFormat format) [0x00000]
� at IPod.PhotoDatabase.SaveThumbnails () [0x00000]
� at IPod.PhotoDatabase.Save () [0x00000]
IPod.DatabaseWriteException: Failed to save database (in `ipod-sharp')
� at IPod.PhotoDatabase.Save () [0x00000]
� at IPod.TrackDatabase.Save () [0x00000]
IPod.DatabaseWriteException: Failed to save database (in `ipod-sharp')
� at IPod.TrackDatabase.Save () [0x00000]
� at IPod.Device.Save () [0x00000]
� at Banshee.Dap.Ipod.IpodSource.PerformSyncThreadCycle () [0x00000]


I am hoping this isn't too big of a problem. I would love to use Linux exclusively and this is the only thing holding me back, I am very tied to my music. If there is a problem on my end I am more than willing to try what you suggest.

Thank you very much,
���� Steve

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