[Santoriello]

Ok so.....

My girl wanted an mp3 disk based portable for the road, could not bear to buy an inferior product... so I decided to get the iPod, firewire card, and XPlay sync software (from MediaFour)...

All was well with installing the firecard with the version of XP she is running. Just got XPlay Preview Release 2 from MediaFour and installed...

Here are the issues and facts...
- She loves the iPod (if it worked properly)
- The screenshots dont look the same...
ie - no songs, playlists, or artists folders are created,
like shown in the screenshots.
- We can add songs to the iPod.
- We can play songs on the desktop machine from the iPod disk.
- WE CAN NOT PLAY OR SEE ANY MUSIC ON THE iPOD!?!?!?!?...

HELP ME PLEASE
(She is running Windows XP Professional)
HELP ME PLEASE

Oh yeah.... Merry XMas & Happy Holidays!

tom

[zac4mac]

Until X-play gets farther along, or Apple posts a version of iTunes or something similar, you will need a Mac to get the songs on the 'Pod like the screenshots. What you are doing now is just using the iPod as a FireWire drive. A Firefly would do the same for 100.00 less. If you know someone with a Mac, take your MP3's, on CD, and transfer them onto the 'Pod. Then you will see them in song/artist/playlist etc and be able to play them straight from the iPod. You will also need a Mac to run firmware updates - they are at 1.02 or 1.03 now(Apple pulled 1.03 due to problems with 2 year old Macs).

[Prufrock]

The iPod uses a folder called iTunesdb to control all the music that is placed into hidden folders. If Xplay is not creating this control file, then the iPod is a FireWire only drive and not an MP3 player.

Go to ipodlounge.com - they have a good discussion going by people using Xplay and some ways to get the iTunesdb file built.