On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:57:22PM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On 13-6-2009 22:36, Richard van den Berg wrote: > > I'm now starting to think it's a RAM issue. According to > > http://ipodlinux.org/wiki/Generations#Fifth_Generation_.285G.29_.2F_Fifth_Generation_Enhanced_.285.5G.29 > > my 30GB turned 240GB iPod has 32MB of RAM. Maybe I should try to get a > > hold of a 60GB/80GB version (64GB of RAM)? > > I just had to rule this out, so I got myself a nice and shiny 2nd hand > iPod Video 80GB. After converting it to 240GB (needs to load different > firmware than the 30GB!) and 23 hours of gnupod sync, I'm pretty sure my > issue is RAM related. Before I was able to load 17759 songs in a 25MB > iTunesDB. Now (after 2 iterations) I'm up to 22811 songs in a 34MB > iTunesDB. However, the full 30415 in a 42MB iTunesDB still does not > take. :-(
Well, at least we have a screw to play around with. My first idea now is to strip the iTunesDB of the stuff that is optional. I suggest you take a look at the iTunesDB.pm code and see which attributes are translated into optional mhods and thus could be left out. E.g. the last release hardly ever (never?) added a desc attribute but the current CVS code adds a desc attribute to all mp3 files. Last friday I wrote a patch that will not add them if they are empty. I just need to commit it. I don't know what else gets translated into an optional mhod but maybe even the fdesc attribute could be stripped. > I'll try to contact some other 240GB iPod owners to see how their > experience is. Also check out the mailing list archives ... There was a guy a while back (November 2008) with a similar issue: "Problem over 32946 entries in GNUtunesDB.xml". Cheers -henrik BTW: I've started converting the CVS gnupod repository into a git repository. If Adrian agrees I'd like to give you write access to it. In the beginning you could work on your own branches (at least for a while) and I'd cherrypick the changes that are mature into the master branch. Private branches are also nice if you have private patches (like the artist-title concatenation patch) that you want to keep out of the master branch. If you havn't seen it yet I strongly recommend Linus' talk on git: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 _______________________________________________ Bug-gnupod mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnupod
