Hi Pierre-Marie, On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:28:06AM +0100, Pierre-Marie Gandoin wrote: > Hello and thank you very much for your software ! > > I use a 6G Classic iPod (160 GB) with Gnupod since about one year without > any problem. But today, updating my content from 25728 to 37986 songs, > after a reboot, the iPod didn't work any longer. The browsing was > impossible and it announced 32946 songs. However, the mktunes output > seemed correct : "... 37986 files parsed, assembling iTunesDB ..."
I don't have any hands on experience with such a large database. I tried gnupod_add and _search with about 24000 files but only as a dry run into a directory. I use a Nano 3G (8GB) so I can't actually try anything close to your collection's size on the device. > Now, after truncating the GNUtunesDB.xml file below 32946 entries, the > iPod worked again as usual. Is there some kind of limit over the song > numbers (we are close to 2^15) ? If it was a 2^15 problem it would have struck at 32768, so going below 32946 you would still have almost 200 files too many. Could you post the complete output of mktunes? > (Must I subscribe to the mailing list to read your answer ? I don't find > any clue to do this on the gnupod web page.) You don't need to subscribe if I put you on Cc: . But if you like to, you can subscribe at http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnupod The list is very low volume. > Also, I would like to know if it is possible to have several entries of > the GNUtunesDB.xml pointing on the same file (useful in the case of a > multi-artist song, to access it from each artist). If not, that could be > the cause of my problem, since this is the first time I do this. This could indeed be a problem for the iPod software. I don't know the binary format of the iTunesDB but messing with references like that could cause problems for the database parser on the ipod. I suggest you try to add those files without adding cross references first. Cheers -henrik BTW: Which version of gnupod are you using? _______________________________________________ Bug-gnupod mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnupod
