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A comment on the question "Purchased music from Ipod Touch not appearing in Podworks" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

This is very helpful, thank you. I will start looking into this problem. – buzz, on September 05, 2009 14:02

buzz replied on August 18, 2009 23:41 to the question "Podworks 2.9.5 and iPhone 3.0.1 and iTunes 8.2.1 compatibility?" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

I'm not seeing this--at least not with a first gen phone I have running 3.0.1. I'm also running iTunes 8.2.1 and PodWorks 2.9.5.

You aren't running Snow Leopard by any chance, are you?

I will try this later on tonight with a friend's 3G running 3.0.1.

buzz replied on July 09, 2009 16:15 to the question "Playlist Not Showing Up - The Music Is, But Not The Actual List...WHY?" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

Hmm, I might need to invest in a nano for testing. I will look into this further.

buzz replied on July 09, 2009 14:44 to the question "Playlist Not Showing Up - The Music Is, But Not The Actual List...WHY?" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

I need more information. What version of iPod? A touch? What version of the iPhone OS, if it's a touch? What version of Mac OS X?

buzz replied on July 06, 2009 20:08 to the problem "Can't Complete Transfer" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

If you go to PodWorks > Preferences and go to the "iTunes Export" tab, what do you see as the path to the iTunes Library XML file. Does that file actually exist on your computer? Do you have your iTunes library in a non-standard location?

buzz replied on July 06, 2009 15:43 to the problem "Podworks quits every time on launch no matter what" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

Oof, OK, well, I tested on 10.5.7 with my own phone running 2.2.1, but I will look into this a bit more closely.

buzz replied on July 02, 2009 18:19 to the problem "Podworks quits every time on launch no matter what" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

Hmm--can you do me a favor and look in Console.app (under /Applications/Utilities) and tell me if you see anything there that seems relevant? Also, if you're getting a "PodWorks unexpectedly quit" dialog, could you click the "Send to Apple" button and copy the crash log text and post it here?

buzz shared an idea in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi on June 26, 2009 16:01:

Follow PodWorks on Twitter!

For those interested in keeping up-to-date on what's going on with PodWorks, you can now follow @podworksapp on Twitter.

buzz replied on June 26, 2009 15:59 to the problem "PodWorks don't work with iPhone OS 3.0" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

I have a build that can read the new database format now. I just want to give it some testing, but I should have a release out soon.

buzz replied on June 26, 2009 15:58 to the problem "iPhone/iPod Touch OS 3.0 Problems" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

I have a build of PodWorks that can read the new database format now. I just want to give it a bit of testing, then I'll release it.

buzz reported a problem in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi on June 21, 2009 20:57:

iPhone/iPod Touch OS 3.0 Problems

As people have been reporting, there are some definite problems with PodWorks on iPhone OS 3.0 (and, I'm fairly certain, almost every other app that does what PodWorks does). I will be looking into solutions to this problem, but I don't have a timeline yet on how long it will take.

buzz replied on January 29, 2009 20:42 to the problem "cocoalicious crashing after updating os x to 10.5.6" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

Hmm--that's not happening for me. Can you post a crash log? Also, what version of Cocoalicious are you using? Are you sure it's the latest?

buzz replied on September 26, 2008 18:33 to the question "Doesn't copy all songs" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

Are you getting an error message?

buzz replied on September 09, 2008 16:35 to the question "Help! Before I burn my laptop in a furious rage..." in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

There's a menu item, under "Pod," that says "Recreate Selected Playlist in iTunes."

buzz replied on July 30, 2008 14:46 to the question "Won't work with Leopard?" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

It should work fine on Leopard. It sounds like you ran into some AppleScript errors, which is very common with iTunes unfortunately (that's an iTunes problem). I agree with you about the lack of documentation--I will work on that.

buzz replied on May 26, 2008 15:33 to the question "Leo Laporte Recommendation!" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

Wow, thanks for the heads up about that (and the kind words :-))!

buzz replied on May 26, 2008 15:33 to the question "Music transfer" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

I've been told by people that PodWorks works for this, but I don't test it myself so I don't make any guarantees about it. You might try the demo and see how it goes.

buzz replied on May 25, 2008 14:21 to the question "Manage existing iPod files ?" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

Unfortunately no, not right now. PodWorks doesn't do anything that would modify the iPod database--it only reads from it. Since I've basically reverse engineered the iPod DB, I'm very leery of the possibility of messing up peoples' iPods by writing to the database.

buzz replied on May 24, 2008 22:58 to the question "What about "Smart" Playlists?" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

You can transfer them (they show up in PodWorks) but they will not be transferred as smart playlists--they'll end up in iTunes as normal playlists. I may work on full smart playlist support for PodWorks 3.

buzz replied on May 24, 2008 22:56 to the question "Disk Image file not recognized" in Sci-Fi Hi-Fi:

Hmm, I usually distribute PodWorks through a zip file now. My guess is you're downloading an old version. Try this:

http://scifihifi.com/podworks/downloa...