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Plugins / Re: iPod & iPhone Driver Plugin 2.0
« on: October 16, 2022, 11:33:32 PM »
Thank you again! This made some progress, but there's a new error. "iTunes could not connect to this iPhone. An unknown error occurred (0xE800000A)."
does this happen too if you use itunes manually (without mb and plugin)?

Unfortunately it was doing this with a manual iTunes launch as well.

Thank you again! This made some progress, but there's a new error. "iTunes could not connect to this iPhone. An unknown error occurred (0xE800000A)." I did some Googling on this one and have tried some of the steps, I deleted the Lockdown folder in ProgramData

Looks like you found the same video I did when I googled it.

From what I can tell, I think you are going to need at least iTunes version 12.9 as this seemed to be an error that occurred with iPhone X users and 12.9 fixed it for them. As you are on iPhone 13 you might need an even newer version.

The delete bug can be worked around to some degree, I guess it really depends what you are syncing for how inconvenient the bug will be.
1. If you don't sync any playlists you should be ok. There is a worse bug I had to work around so when a playlist is synced, the plugin deletes it out of iTunes first before adding it back in again. This can trigger the delete bug. If you only sync one or two playlists, you might not encounter the bug very often.
2. Untick the option to delete items removed from the sync. Obviously this will leave them in iTunes.
3. If you still wish to remove items or you sync a lot of playlists, you can delete them manually from iTunes first before running the sync. But you need to be careful not to lose playcounts/ratings. So it takes a bit of forward planning.
    3a. before you remove any songs make sure you have done a successful sync to get the play counts into music bee. If you are having issues with playlists causing the delete bug you can manually delete them in iTunes before you star the sync. Just open iTunes separately, delete the playlists (this wont remove the songs), close iTunes and run the plugin.
    3b. Once you have the play counts in Music Bee, make your changes to the playlists/songs in Music Bee. Open iTunes manually and remove any songs that you removed from the sync in Music Bee, close iTunes then run the plugin.

If you sync your entire library and never delete anything, you should not encounter the bug at all.

Sorry for the delay responding here, it's been a bit of a hectic week! I ended up upgrading to the current version of iTunes and was able to sync up the songs that were previously causing troubles because they were in FLAC format.

It sounds like the bug won't be too much of an issue for me. I'm currently syncing up my entire library and no playlists. Eventually that will have to change, as my phone isn't going to be able to hold it all forever, but I'd say that's a ways off right now. I'm very happy with the setup either way though. Really glad I'm able to use Music Bee as the main software and not have to try to juggle iTunes separately for my phone.

Thank you again for all your help and for making this plugin!

One last thing, there is a folder under MusicBee Portable\AppData called iPod & iPhone Driver that is about the size of my library. This is to be expected right? Just wondering if I can delete it to free up space if it's not needed.


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Plugins / Re: iPod & iPhone Driver Plugin 2.0
« on: October 07, 2022, 06:04:18 AM »
Unfortunately now I'm running into iTunes issue with my phone. "This iPhone cannot be used because the required software is not installed." The suggested reinstall of iTunes doesn't work. I'm running an iPhone 13 mini running iOS 15.6.1. I realize this is potentially a little out of the scope of this thread, but hoping someone may have run into this as well and found a fix.

Probably just an issue with the services for apple mobile devices. Itunes really doesn't like it when you downgrade an installation which you have probably done trying to get it all working.
Old thread here with some instructions that might work - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3847504

Thank you again! This made some progress, but there's a new error. "iTunes could not connect to this iPhone. An unknown error occurred (0xE800000A)." I did some Googling on this one and have tried some of the steps, I deleted the Lockdown folder in ProgramData and restarted the Apple Mobile Device Service. I also uninstalled and replaced with the older version, the Apple Application Support program.

Any suggestions on this one? Worst case I could update to the current version and just eat the extra drive space from the deletion issue. Not the end of the world if that ends up having to be the solution. 

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Plugins / Re: iPod & iPhone Driver Plugin 2.0
« on: October 05, 2022, 05:14:08 AM »
Thank you! That patch worked like a charm! There were 2 or 3 songs that didn't convert, but I suspect that is due to some unsupported characters in the titles, I strongly suspect it is not related to it being a FLAC file. Not an issue either way. Those 2 or 3 songs can just live on my computer.

For additional setup notes for future reference, this is working on a portable install on a network share folder, so I can confirm both of those things do work with the plugin.

Unfortunately now I'm running into iTunes issue with my phone. "This iPhone cannot be used because the required software is not installed." The suggested reinstall of iTunes doesn't work. I'm running an iPhone 13 mini running iOS 15.6.1. I realize this is potentially a little out of the scope of this thread, but hoping someone may have run into this as well and found a fix.

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Plugins / Re: iPod & iPhone Driver Plugin 2.0
« on: October 04, 2022, 05:00:05 AM »
Fist off, thank you for making this plugin! It's very nice to be able to sync Musicbee with my phone.

I am having a couple of issues though, and I suspect they may be user error. I've read through the thread and I think I'm doing everything correctly, but may have missed something.

I'm having the issue with FLAC files mentioned in this thread where they don't convert on the fly and get the error "Copy Failed - Object reference not set to an instance of an object.". I'm using the most up to date version of Musicbee 3.5.8150 P and tried both a current version of iTunes as well as the recommended 12.5.3.16. Under the device settings for the iPod and iPhone driver, I have on the fly conversion checked and set to convert lossless files to MP3. I only have FLAC files as lossless files in my library. I think I may be missing something or have missed a step, but I'm not sure what. Hoping you all will be able to help.  :)

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