On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 09:23:44PM +0100, Pierre-Marie Gandoin wrote: > > you could also do a > > "ls -lsaR <mointpoint> > /tmp/before" > > before you add that last critical file and a > > "ls -lsaR <mointpoint> > /tmp/after" > > afterwards and then post the output of > > "diff -u /tmp/before /tmp/after" > > First thing, the bug is not reproducible : after loading the 32946 version > of GNUtunesDB.xml, then loading back the 32945 version, my iPod does not > work any longer ! > > The new limit seems to be 32767. So I give you the diff file between a > recursive ls with 32766 entries (iPod fine) and the same with 32767 > entries (iPod out of order).
Now that sounds more like a program limit to me. 2^15-2 and 2^15-1. In an iTunes forum I've found that there used to be a limit in iTunes: > http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=65822 ... > It used to be 32,767 songs, which means that it was likely based on a 2Byte > integer (w/negatives). > > If they made it 3 byte, it's 8,388,608 I think.. So, if the iTunes database file that gnupod produces is based on that old format, this would indeed explain the problem you see. I am not very good at reading lots of pack/unpack perl code to see if the stuff in iTunesDB.pm is correct. (Any volunteers?) Instead I suggest doing the full circle GNUtunesDB.xml -> iTunedDB -> GNUtunesDB.xml to see if anything gets lost along the way.. That means that you'd have to -backup your GNUtunesDB.xml file after adding some files more than the ipod accepts -run mktunes -move your GNUtunesDB.xml away or delete it -run tunes2pod -compare the resulting GNUtunesDB.xml with the one that you backed up. That could tell us if there is something fundamentaly wrong with the iTunesDB that gnupod produces. > (I can also send you the two ls outputs > tgzipped (800kB) if you want.) That could help. But please send those to my address instead of the list. cheers -henrik _______________________________________________ Bug-gnupod mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnupod
