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Sorting, sorting, more sorting

pieceofsummer — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:23:10 +0000

Just to make things clear.

All future releases of foo_touchremote will use the following sort rules:
1. Inside single album view songs are ordered by song number. Songs without song number would come before the others in alphabetical order.
2. In all other places (search results, all albums view, all tracks) songs are ordered alphabetically despite song number, album and other fields.
That’s all. It is what Remote expects from server.

The only question is how to treat non-letter characters (numbers, special symbols) when sorting. Should they prepend latin letters or come after them (like iTunes does)?
And what to do with non-latin letters? The options are to use navigation letters and let all non-latin characters appear as ‘#’, or just keep it as is without any letters at all.

Wanna to hear what you think of all that things.

Long time no posts

pieceofsummer — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:02:54 +0000

Some time ago I’ve said there would be updates during New Year holidays. Well, that didn’t come true.
I have been moving to the new apartment and had no time to do something, even reading the e-mails was a problem.

Also I have a request to those of you who has a MacBook and a not-Touch iPod (i.e. Classic, Nano, etc.). Please post in the comments how does the player appear in the Mac OS X. Is it mounted to some directory (which exactly?) as a removable drive just like in Windows?

Awesome Windows 7 videos by Marty Martin

pieceofsummer — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:55:05 +0000

This has nothing to do with Apple, iPhone, foobar or other stuff. Just relax and enjoy!

Oops!

pieceofsummer — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:04:23 +0000

I’ve just realized that foo_w7shell page was truncated when moving to another server. Actually I have no idea why it was the only page corrupted, but still hate MySql for such tricks.

And I was wondering why people are downloading old versions (0.2.7.0 and even 0.2.6.2). That’s because they simply had no actual links and used old ones cached by various search sites.

Sorry, ppl. And update it now.

301 Moved permanently

pieceofsummer — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:08:07 +0000

Yay, moved to another hosting. The new one seems to be more stable and not so fucking slow.

Donations are welcome :)

pieceofsummer — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:45:26 +0000

If you really enjoy my work, you may now support future development by donating some money using PayPal or a credit card.

Shit happens

pieceofsummer — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:37:16 +0000

My home Asus WL500gP router just fucked up. It turned on all LAN and WAN lights and did nothing more. A bit of googling – and I knew that power adapter is dead.
Luckily I had an old wall charger from some WinMobile device giving required 5 volts, but sitting with solderer at 5AM and replacing a mini-usb jack with another one is not fun.

Now it works, but I had to disable WiFi, ’cause the new power adapter is a twice less powerful than the original one and cannot make the router working stable. I’ll miss internet on my iPod…

iPhone OS 3.1: noway

pieceofsummer — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:31:19 +0000

It has a bit faster spotlight (they added some indexes, lol), that’s true.
But a bug with sorting non-english track names makes navigation completely unusable. All such tracks are put into “123″ section even though locale supports required symbols and they’re shown as jump letters.

I’m lucky iTunes allows upgrade to an older version, because I don’t have a copy of my library on a PC.
So waiting for next beta…

New iTunes library is here

pieceofsummer — Mon, 25 May 2009 07:35:33 +0000

I’ve just got why you should use new iTunes (8.2) since beta 5. They have replaced old iTunesDB library with new one based on SQLite, so sync is a bit odd thing now.
Device itself doesn’t use iTunesDB at all, but iTunes still does – I think it’s for compatibility reasons. When syncing, iTunes writes both iTunesDB and new library files to device. If there’s no iTunesDB file on device, iTunes will also purge new library and all your music will appear as “other” data.

I wonder whether new library will completely supersede iTunesDB or will they continue coexisting for compatibility reasons. But anyway, linux guys would be happy since SQLite format is open and much more clear for understanding.

foobar2000: WASAPI on Windows7

pieceofsummer — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:18:11 +0000

Looking at Google Analytics I’ve found out that somebody came to this site looking for solution of WASAPI issue. Well, maybe it should be here

On builds before 7068 WASAPI was working as expected. But all newer builds (up to RC1 7100) cause it to throw “unrecoverable playback error: could not open device 88890020″.
I don’t know what exactly does it mean, but I know how to fix it. The default 1000 ms buffer size does not fit for some reason, so you should decrease it – 500 (and less) ms buffer is ok. Note that this number could vary for different hardware.

Well, maybe it’s not a perfect solution, but it does work for now!