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[pomegranate]

Can someone help me get started with the DB, cos I'm drawing a total blank so far..

[markdk25]

Are you trying to use the perl stuff or the Java method? I suggest the Java stuff, couldn't get the perl version working.

[pomegranate]

No, I mean I have no idea whatsoever about even getting started with the DB, and I'm not sure where to look at the rockbox site...

[markdk25]

Right, bear with me, I may get this wrong...but...go to this page :

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/TagDatabase

Download the songdb.jar file listed right at the bottom of the page and stick it onto the root of your iRiver.

Kick up a command prompt on your machine and do this :

java -jar <iriverdir>:\songdb. jar <iriverdir>:\.rockbo x

Should run through the list of files on the device and stick a file called rockbox.id3db in the .rockbox directory.

[boobers]

Originally Posted by markdk25

Right, bear with me, I may get this wrong...but...go to this page :

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/TagDatabase

Download the songdb.jar file listed right at the bottom of the page and stick it onto the root of your iRiver.

Kick up a command prompt on your machine and do this :

java -jar <iriverdir>:\songdb. jar <iriverdir>:\.rockbo x

Should run through the list of files on the device and stick a file called rockbox.id3db in the .rockbox directory.

Still not making me a file ANYWHERE in my player. All seems fine in the DOS command program, just no file is created

[Jonny]

Originally Posted by boobers

Still not making me a file ANYWHERE in my player. All seems fine in the DOS command program, just no file is created

Search your PC for rockbox.id3db. Mine was somewhere in 'Documents and Settings' for some reason. I think where it is made corresponds to the path before 'java'.
To make the file in the '.rockbox' folder do the following in Command Prompt:
type: <iRiver drive letter>:
e.g. G:
then: cd .rockbox
and then: java -jar G:\songDB.jar G:\

[pomegranate]

thanks mark, and nice one, Jonny... made it, just going to reboot in a moment...

[Jonny]

Originally Posted by pomegranate

thanks mark, and nice one, Jonny... made it, just going to reboot in a moment...

You'll have to go into settings and then 'File view' and select 'ID3 Database'.

[pomegranate]

before or after I reboot?

[Farpenoodle]

Originally Posted by hypnotic monkey

it would be great if this was in rockbox, dont know how it would work though, i mean doing a count. maybe through a txt file which could be read by scrobbler?

I'd imagine it'd probably be a combination of Rockbox writing to a text file and software on the side of the computer that will upload the list to scrobbler. Meaning you'd need to connect the player to your computer to sync, but I still think it's awesome.

[Jonny]

Originally Posted by pomegranate

before or after I reboot?

Any time. After will be fine.

[pomegranate]

I was thinking maybe a little app or hack could kinda of dupe the Audioscrobbler plugin into sending each entry, through your music program, somehow...

edit: thanks.

edit 2: done. heh, it's pretty neat, though suffers the same limitations as the iRiver FW DB. The Search thing is nice. For some reason I'm getting dual entries for a lot of albums, ie they're listed twice in the album list, for no obvious reason. Anybody else getting this?

[boobers]

i finally got it to work when I realised that the id3db file was not where I thought it would be. It put mine in C:\Windows for some reason, not sure why.

The database is pretty cool. Anyone else get todays daily build? Plugins with music!! Wicked! Now I can play snake while listening to Snow Patrol!!!

[pomegranate]

Originally Posted by boobers

Now I can play snake while listening to Snow Patrol!!!

Wow you must be pretty determined to bore yourself to death!

[Benjimima]

For some reason I'm getting dual entries for a lot of albums, ie they're listed twice in the album list, for no obvious reason. Anybody else getting this?

this i believe is due to a conflict between v1 and v2 id3 tags like say you have two songs from an album with v1 tags and then 4 other songs with v2, then the album will be listed twice due to the different tags. well i have one dual listed album and that is why, so it may be the same for you

Ben

[pomegranate]

Hmm... that sounds plausible. I'll leave it for now.. Thanks.

[animatorgeek]

Does anyone know what the current state is on recording? I tried the PCM recording on the build from a couple days ago and I was just wondering if there's any progress on that? MP3 encoding would be cool too, but I'm guessing that that's a ways off still.

Hmmm... would it be possible to port LAME as a Rockbox plugin and use it to do non-realtime encoding? That is, record to WAV, then use the best MP3 encoder available to save space on the drive

[Benjimima]

i have created a simple automated script to delete your old database and create a new one for you, ill attach it to this post in a zip file with songdb.jar, just stick the files on the root of your iriver drive and run !createdb.bat, however it is currently set to run from my iriver drive (letter H:\) so if you want to use it on your iriver and it is a different letter the code will need to be changed, this is simple, just right click the file (after you have downloaded it off this post) and click "edit" then change any entries of H:\ to the apprioiate drive letter, go file save, close it, then double click the file and away you go!

hope these files help people get a nice tag database for there rockbox'ed irivers

Ben

Edit: i cant attach the file so i will host it on some crap freewebs webspace at http://www.freewebs.com/noroutine/Tag-DB.zip sorry also remember to right click and go save target as

[cormie]

Jebus that cross-fade is fooopin degaly on todays build!! gaps? What gaps?

[belgarath_the_sorceror]

Thanks for that program, I am running it as we speak. Its great the way all of these scripts exist to make me lazier and lazier...

[cormie]

Sorry, just tried the playlist and the cross fade is sooo cool I just had to post again. Thank you guys sooo much!! There are tonnes of options now for the playlist and its great you can now see the current playlist and everything. I cross faded between a rap song and a rock song which had a guitar intro heavy at the start and it was so cool hearing it coming in on the lyrics like that.

One thing that I never noticed before, Im not sure if it's new or what, is that until you play a song it gives off a bad signal through the speakers, it's present even when the machine is turned off so it's not just rockbox, but when I have the iRiver firmware on, and I switch between tracks, it doesn't happen, but it does happen when I switch between non alligned rockbox tracks.

It's going great guys! Do any of you play poker online?

[Northern_Dragon]

Originally Posted by cormie

One thing that I never noticed before, Im not sure if it's new or what, is that until you play a song it gives off a bad signal through the speakers, it's present even when the machine is turned off so it's not just rockbox, but when I have the iRiver firmware on, and I switch between tracks, it doesn't happen, but it does happen when I switch between non alligned rockbox tracks.

You didn't by any chance have the unit charging at the time did you? I've noticed this issue when it's plugged in, doesn't occur otherwise. I've been meaning to mention this bg but had forgetten.

[bugmenot]

If this is when the unit is plugged in, its to do with some shady grounding by Irivier iirc. Apparantly you can even get very minor (just enough to feel) electric shocks from this. This is what causes the noise.