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From: phantomjinx <pha...@us...> - 2011-10-26 21:25:59
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commit 2ee430e28a55f8458c49b6e9905112bda5f251d4
Author: phantomjinx <p.g...@ph...>
Date: Wed Oct 26 22:25:00 2011 +0100
Update the INSTALL and TODO files.
Brings some of the information up to date.
INSTALL | 122 +++++++++----
TODO | 541 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
TODOandBUGS.txt | 446 ---------------------------------------------
3 files changed, 517 insertions(+), 592 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 268bf09..70fee14 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -12,51 +12,96 @@ How to compile/install gtkpod:
project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mad/).
Starting with version 0.96 gtkpod is using the gpod library.
- libgpod should soon be available as a standard package for major
+ libgpod is available as a standard package for major
Linux distributions. You can also install the library from source.
Download instructions for the tarball or development snapshot can
be found at http://www.gtkpod.org/libgpod.html
- The libmp4v2 package is ONLY NEEDED if you need AAC support. You
- don't need libmp4v2 if you don't use AAC files. Download's
- available at
-
- http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mpeg4ip/
- (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mpeg4ip/mpeg4ip-1.6.tar.gz)
-
- libid3tag was successfully compiled and installed with
-
- ./configure ; make ; make install
-
- libmp4v2 was successfully compiled and installed with
-
- ./bootstrap --disable-server ; make ; make install
-
-
The following packages are required for building gtkpod:
autoconf (at least 2.55)
flex (or lex)
gettext
- glib (at least 2.8.0)
- gtk+ (at least 2.8.0)
- libglade (at least 2.4.0)
+ glib
+ gtk+ (gtk2 for the 2.0.x stream / gtk3 for the 2.1.0+ stream)
libgpod (at least 0.6.1)
+ libgdl
+ anjuta
libid3tag (at least 0.15)
- perl XML::Parser module
- anjuta (at least 2.30)
- pkgconfig
-
- Optional packages:
-
- libcurl (for coverart download support)
- libflac (for FLAC support)
- libgnome-vfs-2.0 >2.6 (for iPod autodetection under GNOME)
- libhal >0.5 <0.6 (in combination with libgnome-vfs: better detection of iPods)
- libmp4v2 (for AAC/M4A support)
- libvorbis (for ogg libvorbis support)
- libwebkit >=1.1 (for coverart web browse support)
-
+ libgnome-vfs-2.0 > 2.6 (for iPod autodetection under GNOME)
+ libhal > 0.5 < 0.6 (in combination with libgnome-vfs: better detection of iPods)
+
+ Optional Packages
+
+ For web browser plugin:
+ webkitgtk (version 1 or 3 depending on version of gtk)
+
+ For audio player plugin:
+ gstreamer
+ gstreamer-plugins (plugins to support mp3 / mp4 playback)
+
+ For filetype conversion:
+ flac
+ libogg
+ libvorbis
+ lame
+ libmp4v2
+ faad2
+
+ For opengl coverart display (clarity) plugin:
+ clutter-gtk
+
+ For download of coverart:
+ libcurl
+
+ The following can be used for installing the dependencies on ubuntu 11.10:
+
+ apt-get groupinstall Development\ Tools
+
+ apt-get install \
+ libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev \
+ gstreamer0.10-plugins-base \
+ gstreamer0.10-plugins-good \
+ libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev \
+ libgstreamer0.10-dev \
+ gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse \
+ gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg \
+ gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad \
+ gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly \
+ libflac-dev \
+ libogg-dev \
+ libvorbis-dev \
+ libmp3lame-dev \
+ libmp4v2-dev \
+ libclutter-gtk-1.0-dev \
+ libgpod-dev \
+ libanjuta-dev \
+ libgdl-3-dev \
+ libid3tag0-dev
+ faad \
+ libcurl3
+
+ The following can be used for installing the dependencies on fedora 15:
+
+ yum groupinstall Development\ Tools
+ yum install \
+ webkitgtk3-devel \
+ gstreamer-devel.i686 \
+ gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-devel.i686 \
+ gstreamer-plugins-base-devel.i686 \
+ gstreamer-plugins-good.i686 \
+ flac-devel.i686 \
+ libogg-devel.i686 \
+ libvorbis-devel.i686 \
+ lame-devel.i686 \
+ libmp4v2-devel.i686 \
+ clutter-gtk-devel.i686 \
+ libpod-devel \
+ anjuta-devel \
+ libgdl-devel \
+ libid3tag-devel \
+ faad2 \
+ curl
2. If you install libraries to /usr/local/lib please don't forget to
add the path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH
@@ -107,22 +152,21 @@ How to compile/install gtkpod:
** Note that you do not need to accept the default (usually
/usr/local) install path when you compile and install the software.
You may choose to install the software in a different location.
- For example, with libid3tag and libmp4v2 in a non-standard
+ For example, with libid3tag in a non-standard
location, outside the $PATH and the usual build environment, you
need to configure the build of gtkpod appropriately. You need to
set a CFLAGS variable during the 'configure' that sets the -I and
-L flags correctly.
- As a practical example, let's say the libmp4v2 software was
- installed in $HOME/Applications/mpeg4ip and the libid3tag software
+ As a practical example, let's say the libid3tag software
was installed in $HOME/Applications/libid3tag, and you want to
install gtkpod into $HOME/Applications/gtkpod. Do this instead:
- CFLAGS="-I$HOME/Applications/mpeg4ip/include -L$HOME/Applications/mpeg4ip/lib -I$HOME/Applications/libid3tag/include -L$HOME/Applications/libid3tag/lib" ./configure --prefix=$HOME/Applications/gtkpod ; make ; make install
+ CFLAGS="-I$HOME/Applications/libid3tag/include -L$HOME/Applications/libid3tag/lib" ./configure --prefix=$HOME/Applications/gtkpod ; make ; make install
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-Quick guide for Ubuntu/Debian
+Quick guide for older Ubuntu/Debian distros
The following steps were necessary to install libgpod and gtkpod on a fairly virgin Ubuntu Hardy (LTS 8.04) installation.
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index f858a82..14d16ab 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,127 +1,454 @@
-Prospective Plugins:
-# core
-# coverart display
-# track editor
-# play tracks now
-# info window
- synchronizer
-# download coverart plugin
-# photo panel
-# export plugin
-# - provides window and export functions
-# - other plugins simply emit a signal that tells the plugin to export the
-# given tracks
-# - means that the other plugins lack items on context menus of other views
-
-Music Menu
-#- Load iPod
-# Save Changes
-# Add Files
-# Add Folder
-# Add Playlists
-# Update Tracks from file
-# Update mserv date from file
-# Sync Playlists with Dir
-# Export Tracks
-# Create Playlist
-# Init ipod Directories
-# Check ipod files
-
-Edit Menu
-# Edit Track Details
-# Edit Smart Playlist (? Not Including)
-# Delete
-# Create Playlists
-# Sorting
-# Randomize current playlist
-- Save Displayed track order
-# Repo iPod Options
-# Preferences
-
-View Menu
-# Info Window
-# More / Fewer filter tabs
-# Arrange Filter Tabs (Not creating)
-
-Tools Menu
-# Play Now
-- Enqueue
-- Normalize Volume
-- Synchronize All, Contacts, Calendar, Notes
+BUGS, TODO:
+
+In addition and duplicates of
+ http://gtkpod.org/bugs/index.php
+ http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=67873&atid=519273
+
+- when auto-loading iPods: set backup path if not set.
+
+- move part of free-space-update to file_convert.c
+
+- when creating new repository: make sure backup repository filename isn't
+ already used.
+
+- don't keep iTunesDB on iPod when syncing (takes up valuable space)
+
+- fileselection_select_script(): display @additional_text.
+
+- modify "warning" when matching checksums: Send a patch that changes
+ the behavior from printing into the info window to opening a dialog
+ with the "never show this dialog again" button. Then add an option
+ to the preferences to get the dialog back.
+
+- save extended database when rehash was done, even if main database
+ is not changed.
+
+- handle missing .ext file more decently
+
+- Add tooltips back to the track attributes section of the prefs or find a
+ way to not need them. Perhaps using shorter versions of the previous
+ tooltips in the lists would work. That way, users wouldn't even need to
+ wait for the tooltip popup to know what the attribute was for.
+
+- unload iPods when exiting gtkpod (ask/option).
+
+- cddb lookup (http://freedb.freedb.org). See also
+ http://musicbrainz.org/doc/libmusicbrainzDownload
+
+- wildcards for filename templates (automatic setting of tags from
+ filename/cover art).
+
+- Actually, there is an option to see all the dirs that
+are going to be synced but it's impossible to change
+them.It would be nice to have a tree whit all the dirs
+and sub-dirs, like in the amarok colection maker, so we
+can have a full control of the sync dirs.
+
+- set flag3/4 automatically for podcasts.
+
+- support for www.last.fm
+
+ http://www.last.fm is a web site that you report your listening
+ habits to. The site can then give you recommendations on other
+ music that you may also like. The site also has music charts for
+ users and also for the entire site. You can tag music and they also
+ have a Radio that you can download and it plays songs for you. -
+ Joshua
+
+- retag tracks with database information
+
+- photo support
+
+- lyrics support (http://www.jcbsoft.net/podlyrics/)
+
+- itdb/misc_confirm.c: number of F?? directories should be determined
+ before starting copying files to the iPod. At the moment only 20
+ dirs are used no matter how many are present.
+ Creation of directories should be moved to itdb_*
+
+- more features for mserv
+
+- icons should be themable
+
+- Update calendar in special sort tab when changing category.
+
+- Give status when adjusting offline_playcount after import of
+ database (can take quite a while even for only 90 tracks).
+
+- Dangling/orphaned tracks
+ - Open a progress window to display information instead of the
+ statusbar messages.
+
+
+- "adjust volume by ...%" functionality
+
+- Pattern matching for tag extraction from filename should also work
+ from the beginning of the name towards the end, not only from the
+ end to the beginning (clear?)
+
+
+- multiple playlist delete, ctrl-d, wipe iPod.
+
+ Unless I'm missing something, I think it would be handy to have a
+ mulitple playlist delete capability, since it's quite tedious to
+ have to delete playlists one at a time.
+
+ Also I noticed ctrl-d didn't delete the playlists, which could be
+ my setup, I'm using Debian Unstable.
+
+ Finally in addition to mulitple playlist delete, how about a total
+ wipe of the ipod (with lots of 'are you sure?'s) thus making it
+ ready for a new setup.
+
+ HTH.
+
+- be able to select multiple genres, albums, etc. at the same
+ time. (should be possible -- difficulty is selecting several
+ playlists)
+
+
+Anton de Wet
+Feature Suggestion:
+ Also usefull would be able to set the "default" rating for all newly
+ added tracks.
+
+
+Satadru
+> It would be nice to have the ability to have some sort of shadow aac
+> directory, that would have converted versions of all the songs in your
+> library, if the song is a higher bitrate than 128kbps aac, so that you
+> can get the most music onto your ipod.
+(+ recode to 128 kB when exporting)
+
+
+Torsten Curdt
+> * I love the type-and-filter-right-away search of iTunes!
+> * I miss the easy click-on-burn-audio-cd button
+> (any way passing this over to the nautilus cdwriter?)
+ - doesn't DND work?
+> * the rating should be stars not a numbers. ...at least
+> a control that is easier than entering a number
+>
+
+kulenfuster@...
+> Not sure from the documentation but it looks like there's no way to
+> sync tunes in the iPod into the desktop database.
+ >
+> For instance situation:
+>
+> Bob has two desktop machines - one at work, one at home. He has
+> tunes on both machines, ripped from his CD collection. The tunes at
+> home are upbeat, the tunes at work are chilled. He keeps these two
+> CD collections separate so that he can play them on regular CD
+> players in each location. He loads his new iPod with the tunes on
+> his home computer and then take it to work and loads further tunes
+> from the work machine. When he gets home he is able to update his
+> home tune database with the tunes from work to give him a backup in
+> a single place in case his iPod fails. I know there are workarounds
+> but it'd be great if this was something you could do automatically
+> with gtkpod. If it is already, please let me know (and Woo Ha!).
+
+
+I have the 20G model and I have more "f" directories
+than gtkpod recognises. So gtkpod only fills up through f19, when
+really I have through f29. Everything works fine on the iPod, it's
+just that gtkpod refuses to put music into any of the other
+directories.
+
+
+On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:37:29PM +0000, Andy wrote:
+> Can gtkpod do any mangling of the files as it loads them on to an iPod?
+> In particular, I was wondering if there was a way to inject an album
+> cover into a file's id3 as it goes in so my drive files can remain
+> pristine.
+>
+> That is, let's say I have cover.jpg in each folder, but not in the files
+> themselves. Could gtkpod be made to pick that up and put it in the id3
+> field for cover (so the iPod Photo can show it).
+
+
+
+> 1) Ich erstelle beim Import von MP3 die ID3 Tags aus den Dateinamen.
+> Dabei wuerde ich noch eine Vorschau ganz gut finden, in der man
+> ggf. noch manuell eingreifen kann. (Stefan Onken)
-Help Menu
-# Help Contents
-# About box
+- Darren Zimerman
+> As for improvements to gtkpod, the only one I can think of off the top
+> of my head would be to have a list of available playlists in the
+> right-click menu. So instead of just "Add selection to new playlist",
+> there would actually be list of current playlists (perhaps in a sub-menu).
-#Playlists Plugin
-# popup menu
-#Tracks Plugin
-# popup menu
+- immediate copying of added tracks to the iPod (when reading tracks
+ over a slow network they will still be in the buffer memory and
+ won't have to read over the network twice if they are copied right
+ away) (request by Seth Arnold)
-#Sorttab Menu
-# popup menu
+- album support (normalize all tracks of an album with the same gain)
+ for volume normalization
-# Save on exit
+- gtkpod-like browse of file system contents
-- Tools plugin
+- upload text notes to iPod
-# Preference windows for each plugin - Should they add items to standard windows or contribute their own
- # prefsdlg.c - Refactor preferences dialog to appear as pages anjuta preferences dialog
+- add more progress dialogues (in general!)
-# plugin remaining
-# display_photo.*
-# info.* / infodlg.*
-# help.*
+- add an option to let the user decide if all the gtkpod's
+ playlist must be updated on export.
-Notes on trial build using ubuntu 910
-1) Install git (git-core, gitk)
-2) Install libglade2-dev
-3) Install/build libgpod -> libgpod-dev
-4) Install flex
-5) Install id3tag
-7) Install anjuta-dev - not good enough as only 2.28. Need 2.30.0
-8) Build anjuta
- - Install gnome-common
- - Install gtk-doc-tools
- - Install libunique-dev
- - Install libdbus-glib-1-dev
- - Install libvte-dev
- - Install libgdl-1-dev
- - Install libxslt-dev
- - Install libgda-4.0-dev
+- on-the-fly resampling to a particular bit rate. I have 32 GB of
+ songs be cause some of them at at 192, but I only need them at 128
+ or so on the Ipod. Mus icmatch does this exact
+ thing. (zum...@ve...) JCS: this could be done along with an
+ arbitrary "conversion" on export: user provides a command line in
+ the prefs dialogue that is executed instead of the simple copy
+ command (should also support faac).
+> I think this could be implemented like this: (Juho Routakorpi)
+> 1. User adds a track (or a directory containing a track) in format X
+> 2. gtkpod notices this and adds this to conversion queue, starts conversion
+> immediatelly in the background
+> 3. If all format X files aren't converted when user commits sync, then format
+> X songs are put to end of transfer queue
+> 4. Temporary files are deleted on exit (if user has chose so)
-# Investigate the lack of ltmain.sh
-# Change configure.in to signal at the bottom status of webkit
-#- pkconfig.pc for libgtkpod
-#Gstreamer
-#* display.c
-# * media player gui referenced in glade xml
-#* display_playlists / display_sorttabs
-# * context menu trips tools_play_tracks (selected_tracks);
+-- John Pedersen
+> I have an Ipod mini, which stores roughly 4GB. My music collection
+> is roughly 18GB.
+>
+> ITunes has a nice feature: each song has a checkbox in front of the
+> song name. And in the ipod preferences, there's a setting called
+> "Only Update Checked Songs".
+>
+> So the checkmarks are a nice simple way to create a subset of my
+> collection.
+>
+> Usage: by default, the songs are all checked, so my first task was
+> to uncheck all these thousands of songs. Solution: get a listing
+> view of ALL songs, and hold down the CTRL key while I uncheck a
+> song. ALL songs in the list now become unchecked (takes a little
+> while of course).
+>
+> Next, I want to re-check the individual albums and/or songs that I
+> want to put back in the mini ipod selection. For the most part, I
+> select an artist, show ALL their songs, and CTRL-click a single
+> checkbox. Alternatively, I can select a single album, or even a
+> single song.
-#* player.c / player.h
-# * thing that does all the work
+> I have a question: (Will Richey)
+> - Could Offline mode be modified such that it handles the unmounting /
+> remounting of the iPod? I'd like to be able to leave gtkpod running,
+> detach the iPod and see the changes, then reattach and reconnect.
+This would also include that gtkpod.in and gtkpod.out are called only
+if not in offline mode. When switching from offline to online, mount
+and gtkpod.in should be called. When switching from online to offline
+gtkpod.out should be called. Further, the README file should be edited
+to reflect the change.
-#Fix anjuta about icon
+(Michael)
+> Second issue - when I delete a playlist and add a playlist with many of
+> the same identical songs, it looks like gtkpod does in fact delete the
+> files from the iPod and recopy them to the iPod.
+Yes -- once they are removed, they are removed.
+>
+> It would be nice if it did not do that.
+Could be done by checking against the "pending_deletion" list by md5 hash
+before adding a new track.
-Threading export of tracks - performance of tracks
+On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:59:00AM +0100, David Smith wrote:
+> Is there any way to reverse sync with directories on gtkpod, i.e press
+> sync and it updates my directories FROM my ipod? At the moment all i can
+> do is manually add the files i know I have updated on my iPod to my
+> computer.
-Lucidfox:
-GtkBuilder files, replace libmp4, move to GIO
- < LucidFox> ffmpeg libraries are not that well documented, though :/
- < LucidFox> In fact, I wonder if in 2.0 it would be possible to switch to
- libavcodec/libavformat for all format conversions, and get rid of the
- shell scripts
+Len Trigg:
+> > Another thing that confused me was the "sort tabs". Since they are
+> > used for filtering rather than sorting, they should really be named
+> > "filter tabs" or "filter panes".
-< teuf> in the plugin-framework branch, did you rework how gtkpod handles ipods?
- ie the offline db stuff and things like that and the fact that the modelnumber iS
- used everywhere?
- basically, it would be really helpful if gtkpod stopped using the model number
- everywhere, and if it stopped using itdb_parse_file (and used itdb_parse +
- mountpoint instead)
+
+Please feel free to submit further features.
+
+
+BUGLIST:
+
+- segfault when sorting the playlists (0.99.2)
+
+drag playlist to track view: (JCS)
+(gtkpod:19911): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_text_buffer_emit_insert: assertion `g_utf8_validate (text, len, NULL)' failed
+
+(gtkpod:19911): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_text_buffer_emit_insert: assertion `g_utf8_validate (text, len, NULL)' failed
+
+(gtkpod:19911): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_text_buffer_emit_insert: assertion `g_utf8_validate (text, len, NULL)' failed
+
+
+
+- Eelco van Veldhuizen
+> First all apoligise for my bad english, i'm from the neatherlands. I
+> have the following problem with my iPod when I select a playlist for
+> my wake up alarm. The iPod switches it back to "beep". This only
+> happens with the playlists from gtkPod. When I sync with iTunes I
+> can select the playlist for my alarm. Maybe you already know this
+> problem.. I have searched on the internet and found a couple of
+> people that have the same problem. But no solutions found... Mabey
+> you know a solution for this problem :)
+
+
+- during a long operation (menues are blocked) the user can still edit
+ the track data. This could potentially crash gtkpod -> need a way to
+ block editing as well without blocking navigation.
+
+- when deleting an entry in the last sort tab (of 2) sometimes gtkpod
+ crashes
+
+
+stefano.brozzi
+> 1. on creating a smart playlist with a rule on title name,
+> only exact case matching is considered
+>
+> 2. adding options during creation of a smart playlist thru the button +
+> there is no autoresize of the modal window to keep " Ok " and " cancel "
+> buttons inside of the windows.
+> 3. another problem is that the field "date added" is overwritten by
+> gtkpod. At this moment I've something like 30gb of mp3 with a "date
+> added" field at the same date and second.
+
+
+
+Please add/report bugs as you find them (jcsjcs at users dot
+sourceforge dot net).
+
+
+-----------------------------------------
+Coverart (JCS):
+Dragging tracks with coverart from Local to iPod may not work. It will
+definitely not work for coverart embedded in the MP3 file.
+
+
+Equalizer: (Julien Oster)
+As you certainly have noticed, the internal iPod equalizer is causing
+ugly clipping (and thus horrible bass distortion) when using bass
+booster settings with a lot of MP3s. Googling around quickly revealed a
+forum posts (http://www5.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=84088)
+which suggests using mp3gain to lower the level of MP3s. That way,
+clipping no longer occurs. The forum thread also reports that doing so
+unfortunately also lowers the volume the MP3 is played, but that isn't
+necessarily the case.
+
+I just spent some hours doing a lot of tests on MP3s with mp3gain and
+gtkpod and I finally came to a solution to avoid every clipping problems
+AND keeping the original volume in every case.
+
+Before you say "but gtkpod already has support for mp3gain!", please
+read on. The mp3gain feature as it is implemented in gtkpod right now
+does not solve any equalizer bass distortion problems, it just
+normalizes the volume of all tracks. However, what I am suggesting here
+actually doesn't change the volume of the tracks at all, it just removes
+possible clipping and thus possible bass distortion.
+
+While experimenting, dealing with all those different volumes, gains,
+soundcheck values, mp3gain settings and whatever else got me quite
+confused. I don't want you to get a headache, it's already enough that I
+got one ;-) So I'll show you step by step what you have to do to remove
+clipping from an MP3.
+
+First of all, we need an MP3 to test the whole thing. Just choose an MP3
+which shows horrible and clearly hearable clipping distortion when using
+the "Bass Booster" equalizer setting on your iPod.
+
+Let's assume that you have that track available as /tmp/foo.mp3 on your
+workstation. Uploading it without any change to your iPod and listening
+to it may be fine when the equalizer is disabled, but when choosing
+"Bass Booster" or another bass intensive setting, the levels of some of
+the lower frequencies are boosted beyond a limit so that that ugly
+distortion occurs. Not good.
+
+We can easily solve this issue by using mp3gain on the track, giving the
+following output:
+
+/tmp% mp3gain -r -o /tmp/foo.mp3
+File MP3 gain dB gain Max Amplitude Max global_gain Min
+foo.mp3 -7 -10.690000 39675.560208 190 126
+
+Note that the "-r" switch has to be there! Otherwise it doesn't work.
+I'm not entirely sure, but it looks like without the -r switch, only the
+volume information in the ID3 tag is changed while with -r, the relative
+volume of every single frame is changed (fortunately, also without
+reducing quality). To avoid clipping you have to volume the frames down.
+
+As you know, the "-o" switch is just for a nicer output and doesn't
+affect how the file is handled.
+
+Now, after doing this, you can already upload the file to your iPod
+using gtkpod. Looking at the soundcheck value after importing it shows
+that it isn't 0 anymore but something slightly off, like 0,3 or 0,75,
+however it's always close to 0.
+
+Playing it reveals no clipping at all! You can try out every equalizer
+setting you want, mp3gain lowered the volume of the individual frames
+enough to not get any frequency boosted beyond any limit by the equalizer.
+
+Happy now? No, there's still a problem: the distortion is gone, but the
+volume is way too low now. Of course, you can just increase the volume
+on your iPod, but sometimes even the highest volume actually seems a bit
+low (even on uncapped iPods). However, even that problem can be solved.
+
+Let's look at the mp3gain output again:
+
+File MP3 gain dB gain Max Amplitude Max global_gain Min
+foo.mp3 -7 -10.690000 39675.560208 190 126
+
+So, it tells us the volume of every frame has been decreased by 10.69dB.
+If you would use mp3gain without the -r switch, -10.69 would be exactly
+the same value that would have got written in the "soundcheck" field.
+
+But since we want to *increase* the playing volume to get the track back
+to its original volume, we do the opposite: we write "10.69dB" in the
+soundcheck field. Not as a negative value, but as a positive value!
+
+Doing so, enabling "Sound Check" on the iPod and listening to the track
+again shows that the track volume is obviously back to original. But
+checking with the equalizer also proves... still no clipping!
+
+Yay! So we have got rid of the clipping while still keeping the original
+volume and we're completely happy now.
+
+Now, what do you think about implementing this functionality in gtkpod,
+similar to the already existing normalize functionality? That would
+really be great.
+
+Of course, there's still one possible drawback, which depends on what
+you would like to have: using that method, nothing is actually
+normalized. The volume of the tracks is the same as before. But if my
+aching head isn't mistaken, skipping the "set the soundcheck field to
+the opposite value of the applied gain"-step will also result in
+normalization (also I still think the volume may be too low then, but I
+also think you could fix this by setting the Soundcheck field to a fixed
+value for all tracks).
+-------------------------
+
+
+
+
+
+Doc sites:
+
+http://www.kgarner.com/blog/archives/2005/01/11/fc3-hal-ipod/
+http://mpeters.us/linux/linux_pod.php
+http://users.ameritech.net/djfake/linux3.htm
+
+Karlan Mitchell:
+The program searches for an ipod, and mounts it
+Check out a little C program I created to make iPod use with linux
+easier, A GUI would be great, but I don't do that. The tool can be
+found at http://karlan.us.to/devel/ipod
+If you would like to merge the code, please feel free to, I'd do it if
+you'd accept a patch.
+
+On the Tools Menu add the following options:
+- Normalize Volume
+- Synchronize All, Contacts, Calendar, Notes
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