hey, i just got a new 60G color ipod a couple of days ago to replace my old 20G that i had been syncing with gnupod. i converted it to FAT32 using a windows box, then used gnupod to put a bunch of stuff on it, but found that it wouldn't play certain tracks -- it would just pause for a second then skip over them.
after some head-scratching i noticed that they were the tracks for which the filenames were long. i hacked up a little perl script to shorten the pathnames in the xml file to no longer than 44 characters, and rename the mp3s. now the broken tracks work. is it possible that 64 character pathnames are too long in the current version of the itunesdb or something? sorry if this problem is documented somewhere, i didn't find it in a couple of quick google searches, and wanted to send you email in case other people are dealing with this problem. the two tracks i was using the debug this problem had pathnames of 64 and 60 characters, respectively. i wasn't methodical enough to figure out what the maximum allowed length was, but i can tell you that an mp3 with a 53-character pathname did play this morning. sorry for the scattered email -- in a bit of a hurry. just thought this might be useful if it's a new bug, and other people start reporting the same problem. thanks for the very useful software. dan _______________________________________________ Bug-gnupod mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnupod
