Recently used SharpMusique to purchase a song from iTunes. After downloading and sorting out the track titles, which #musique didnt seem to do, I tried adding the song to my 4G iPod through amaroK. But after I had ejected it, I found that the song wouldn\'t play at all. It would appear in the database but selecting it would simply return me to the menu after a couple of seconds.

My guess is that amaroK is importing m4a\'s as mp3s, or is simply not doing it correctly. I\'m using SVN (about a week old now), so I imagine this *could* but a libgpod problem, or it might not be...

I\'m having a similar problem. Mp4\'s transfer and appear in the \"media device\" tab, but when I use the ipod itself the tracks don\'t appear at all. I half expected when I reconnected to the ipod they would appear as \"orphaned\", but amaroK sees them.

I don\'t know if amaroK isn\'t sending over the metadata, or if it\'s trying to export them as mp3s (as the threadauthor suggested,) or something else entirely. Or maybe it\'s my own system? Anyone else having similar problems.

This is in 1.4b1 with a video ipod.

Recently I discovered that for files purchased via SharpMusique, editing the tags on them via libmp4v2/faad2/mpeg4ip would make them unplayable - not only on an ipod. I guess this is your problem. You could try to use iTunes for tagging.

What is the file name extension of your mp4\'s? Do they play correctly with amaroK (which engines)?

The filename extension is .mp4, I tried to rename them .m4a but they still didn\'t import correctly. The tags edit fine for me under both faad2 and mpeg4ip. And they play alright under amarok with xine.

When I transfer them to my ipod, they copy to the drive (the kpod*.mp4 files are there). Amarok sees them there too. They just don\'t show up on the ipod itself. I checked for the tracks by artist, by album, and by track name; they\'re nowhere to be found.

Could you mail me such a problematic file? (aumuell@reserv.at)

Sure thing. I\'ll send one your way.

I figured out where the files are going though. They\'re being imported as videos. I didn\'t notice before because I never use my ipod for videos, but this morning something clicked in my mind, and i dipped into the video menu and there they were. They\'re definitely just audio files. And, as mentioned before, they still import as videos when they\'re renamed to .m4a.

Maybe this is a libgpod-0.3.0 problem? I\'ll send a sample file to you, maybe you can figure out what\'s wrong...