On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Phil Trimble <
philtrimble gmail com> wrote:
> Hello Mathieu,
>
> From what I can find this seems like this is not a new problem but that the
> issue resides within libgpod itself. Here is an open bug that I found that
> seems to apply to both nanos and
> shuffles:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3026711&group_id=67873&atid=519273
>
> There is a comment in that bug that states that this issue has been reported
> across multiple music players with descriptions similar to your own. It
> seems like this bug was introduced in more recent versions and that older
> shuffles/nanos work fine in older versions of libgpod. My recommendation
> would be to follow up on this bug to see if libgpod can resolve it.
>
> Good luck,
> Phil
>
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Mathieu Carpentier <
ruindivision gmail com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> In the past few days I tried to sync my two iPods (Shuffle 2nd gen.
>> and Nano 4th gen.) and I noticed the same problem for both of them.
>>
>> Within Banshee I can sync without any error. After sync, browsing the
>> iPod from Banshee shows the tracks that were uploaded to the device.
>> So far, it looks good.
>>
>> But, when trying to play music on the Shuffle, I got the flashing
>> lights indicating that no music is present on device.
>>
>> Samething for the Nano, nothing shows up in Music menu. But on the
>> Nano, space usage shows space used by 'Other' type of file that
>> matches the amount of data put on the device.
>>
>> Using command line, I can find files under 'iPod_Control/Music'.
>>
>> I tried to delete the iTunesDB file with no success. I also performed
>> a Restore using iTunes on Windows 7 to make sure the file system on
>> the iPod is not HFS (one of my iPod was only used under MacOS so far).
>> There was so Firmware update available for both iPods.
>>
>> When the iPod Shuffle (in this case -- did not check what happens with
>> the Nano) is connected, the following messages are logged in
>> $HOME/.config/banshee-1/log:
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> ** (Banshee:3070): WARNING **: Error parsing recent playcounts
>> [Warn 19:43:38.858] iPod database could not be loaded, creating a new
>> one - GLib.GException: iTunesStats file
>> ('/media/SHUFFLE/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesStats'): entry length
>> smaller than expected (0<32). (in `libgpod-sharp')
>> at GPod.ITDB.itdb_parse_wrapped (System.String mountpoint) [0x00000]
>> in <filename unknown>:0
>> at GPod.ITDB..ctor (System.String mountpoint) [0x00000] in <filename
>> unknown>:0
>> at Banshee.Dap.AppleDevice.AppleDeviceSource.LoadFromDevice (Boolean
>> refresh) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
>>
>> ** (Banshee:3070): WARNING **: Error parsing recent playcounts
>> [Warn 19:43:38.860] Caught an exception - GLib.GException:
>> iTunesStats file ('/media/SHUFFLE/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesStats'):
>> entry length smaller than expected (0<32). (in `libgpod-sharp')
>> at GPod.ITDB.itdb_parse_wrapped (System.String mountpoint) [0x00000]
>> in <filename unknown>:0
>> at GPod.ITDB..ctor (System.String mountpoint) [0x00000] in <filename
>> unknown>:0
>> at Banshee.Dap.AppleDevice.AppleDeviceSource.LoadFromDevice (Boolean
>> refresh) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
>> at Banshee.Dap.AppleDevice.AppleDeviceSource.LoadFromDevice ()
>> [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
>> at Banshee.Dap.DapSource.ThreadedLoadDeviceContents (System.Object
>> state) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>> I tried to delete the iTunesStats file. At next connection the file
>> was re-created with the same message in the log.
>>
>> System information:
>> - Fedora 16 x86_64 (Gnome)
>> - Banshee 2.2.1
>> - All available updates are installed.
>> - Banshee & libgpod packages:
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [myuser@orion Music]$ rpm -qa|grep -E "libgpod|banshee"
>> banshee-2.2.1-1.fc16.x86_64
>> libgpod-sharp-0.8.2-1.fc16.x86_64
>> banshee-musicbrainz-2.2.1-1.fc16.x86_64
>> libgpod-0.8.2-1.fc16.x86_64
>> [myuser@orion Music]$
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Any idea ?
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