Album Art Not displaying
 

This happened as a result of updating ml_iPod to v3.02 or at least its assumed so as it was the only thing I changed (besides updating winamp immediately prior to ml_ipod updating)

Action:
Sync'ed and Ejected (New songs with Album art Written). All done without errors or problems seen.

Result:
ALL songs no longer display album art. Interestingly enough, the "full-screen" album art menu still shows up though. No Album art is shown on it though. Its just a white screen for the "full-screen" album art menu.

Fixing:
The first time this happened, I had to re-upload ALL songs onto my iPod (damn this took a long time). Refreshing all album art DID NOT work. Full Database Cleanup DID NOT work.

More Information:
ModelNumStr: MA002
Below is a link to a zip file containing:
1. debuglog.txt
2. debuglog_I.txt
3. iPod-I-2007-12-02-2341.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/?8dbgzvekyce

This is probably too much information to include...but better more than none.

Well, the logs didn't tell me anything special. Don't know what to tell you... :(

I'm noticing a pattern here... a lot of people who've updated to 3.02 have lost their album art... only thing you can do is reformat the iPod (look under Preferences::iPod Support::Home) and resync.

But why? Any idea?

Thats what I do in order to get it to display right. But nobody wants to reformat and resync their iPod...that takes forever.

I'll look into this more when I have more time to troubleshoot the problem (sorry, finals are around the corner for me). So far, I'm guessing that whenever a new song is uploaded onto the iPod, this problem will re-surface and Reformatting will insue....YUCK!

I really do hope this problem will get figured out. If this doesn't, I'm gonna have to just downgrade ml_iPod and use the older version. Doesn't bother me too much at the moment if I were to do this, but later on...possibly when neat new features get implemented, I may get frustrated.

If anyone has any suggestions....I can be the guinea pig and produce some debug logs or anything. I just may be a little slow as I am busy.

I wish I knew! :(

I think I see the pattern: 3.02 requested every user to click the iPod type once. That became necessary, as the newer iPods don't reveal their type in the sysinfo file. I did not want to change that, because other tools (like pmp_ipod) mess it up.

Apparently, some people simply don't choose the correct iPod type. So the artwork is generated in the wrong format, which shows up as empty space on the iPod.
See http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....08#post2278908 etc.

Just a thought, when you install ml_iPod, a iPod type is selected and you are given the chance to correct it. In my case, a classic was selected and I needed to change it. I think people have a tendency, when installing a program, to just click OK to all the selections and not really paying attention to the details. Maybe you should force them to select a type without any suggestion to just click through.

Good idea! I'll change that for the next release.

Ok, here is something else I remember. I didn't think it was the problem as I accoutned for it.

With windows, I have my mouse jump to the default button on any popup that comes up. In my case, I was just about to click something with winamp and the iPod type popup came up. It happened to fast in between my original clicking and the popup....that I think I clicked on an iPod type incorrectly.

Originally, I had a feeling thats what I did. SO I attempted to re-install ml_iPod in hopes of getting the iPod type popup again. It was hard to get it to show up again but I did it. And after clicking the proper iPod type (5th Gen).....IT STILL DID NOT WORK! So how the heck can I fix this?

So, do you have album art at the moment, or not?
I tried it with a 5.5G, and no problem at all.
Did you try to add new songs, and the album art vanished? Or is this just your fear?
As far as I can see from the other posts, you are the only one left with problems...

Are you sure it's a 5G you have, not a 5.5G? How many GB? If it is 80GB, it's a 5.5G. 30GB can be both, 60GB is 5G. You can play videos, yes? (Otherwise it's a 4G photo)

I know for a fact its a 5G iPod. Its a 60GB 5G iPod that can play videos and color and all.

Here's what I did originally:

1. Updated Winamp and ml_iPod to v3.02.

2. most likely accidentally clicked on a different iPod model (due to the windows setting that jumped my mouse to the default 'ok' button right before I wanted to click on something else).

3. I had no clue what the menu was since it was clicked away so fast and I ignored it. I Pressed 'Sync'. New songs (that had Album art) in my library were than added to my iPod. All successful.

4. iPod ejected and I waited till it disconnected safely.

5. No album art found on ALL songs.

Now here is a list of things I did in order to try to fix it. This means that I tried all these things with the problem currently on my iPod:

1. I started by trying Full database cleanup. Didn't work
2. Refresh All album art. Didn't work
3. Downgrade to previous ml_iPod version and sync iPod. Didn't work.
4. Upgrade back to ml_iPod v3.02 and correctly select proper iPod. Sync. Didn't work.

ONLY THING THAT WORKED:
Using previous verison of ml_iPod, reformat and re-upload ALL songs onto iPod. I HAVE NOT tried doing this with ml_iPod v3.02.

WHAT I DID AFTER IT WAS FIXED VIA REFORMATTING:
I continued to use the previous version of ml_ipod for a little bit longer as I was frustrated with v3.02.

After a week or two, I than upgraded again to v3.02 and correctly selected my iPod. Everything seemed to work perfectly fine. I could sync safely as long as no new songs were written to the iPod. But the moment I tried to write a new song to the iPod (it had album art), it messed up again.

I hope this clears up everything regarding what I exactly did. Do you have any suggestions to help me?

Not at the moment. I'm thinking about it. You have 3.02 installed now, with latest patch p06?

And one thing: If it works right now, make a backup copy of your X:\iPod_control\Artwork and X:\iPod_control\iTunes folders (put them on your PC). So if we mess up anything, you can always go back to the current state.

I do have 3.02 with latest patch p06.

For now, I'll go ahead and re-upload all my songs to my iPod overnight. I'll than create the backup copy as you suggest.

You re-upload with ml_ipod, I assume.
Then, if everything works, make the backup (I need the iTunesDB and ArtworkDB of that)
Now transfer a single song that has no cover art (not embedded in ID3, and no folder.jpg etc.). Eject. Covers gone? Or still ok?
If the problem shows up, take another backup, for reference.
If all is ok, transfer another song, this time with covers. Covers gone?
If the problem shows up, take another backup, for reference.
In the end, make an archive for debugging (iPod tools). Then upload all that stuff for me. I must find out the difference between the artworkdb's... Can you see any other difference, size of the *.ithmb files etc..?

I understand what you want. I'll have the data posted back to you in 1 days time.

Ok, This is gonna take some more time. The first time I re-uploaded all my songs to fix the problem, I had done it using the previous ml_iPod version. This time, I tried re-uploading all the songs using v3.02 (latest Dev Patch). That DID NOT work. Album art does not display.

As a result of that test, I need to do the re-upload again but using the previous version of ml_iPod. I'll post back when that is complete.

Ok, here is EVERYTHING. I have attached the following Zip Files inside this single Zip File link below:

1.System Files (Album Art working v3.01).zip
2.System Files (Sync'ed, no new songs written, Album Art working) v3.02.zip
3.System Files (Sync'ed, new song without art written, Album Art NOT working) v3.02p06.zip

Each 'System Files' zip file contains in it:
1.ArtworkDB
2.iTunesDB
3.debuglog.txt
4.debuglog_I.txt
5.iPod-I-2007-12-06-XXXX.zip

Again, I figure its overkill, but better everything be given.

http://www.mediafire.com/?5fn9rnimyy0

Oh and, I forgot to tell you....the filename of the test song is:

01-Red Buddha.mp3

ID3 info:
Title - Red Buddha
Artist - Lenny MacDowell
Album - Tibet Trance

Oh well, I found the problem, but it's hard to tell how it happened. I'll have to make some more tests.
But for you, there is help: in your device ini file (see http://mlipod.sourceforge.net/wiki/F...figuration_.3F), there is a line
modelNumStr=MXX01
That must be changed to
modelNumStr=MA002
(close Winamp before you do that). Now you have to restore from your backup, the whole Artwork folder.
After that, start Winamp and transfer a song. Eject. Everything ok now?

Everything seems to be alright now. Thankyou for your help.....that was frustrating.

Ok, so somehow the ID for a classic found its way into the ini file. And at the time you did the Ctrl-Space trick, it was too late, the ArtworkDB was already destroyed. Hm. don't really know how to prevent this. The strange part is, that the ID in the ini file did not change after the dialog was answered correctly. I just tried it and it worked fine.

So, if nobody else runs into the same problem, I just leave it...

Just had a quick look at my classic 160g and it too has modelNumStr=MXX01


mine is problematic with artwork in that even though all the files have the artwork embedded (I use mp3tag) it doesnt pick up all of them. I just tick the 'look for cover art in id3 tag' and leave others unticked as i dont have jpgs in all the folders.

MXX01 is perfectly correct for a classic.
Maybe it's the image format? You could send me one of the songs that does not display album art...

Well, I'm just glad its all fine now. Thankyou so much Abu....now my iPod can look pretty again