I have a PoGo digital voice recorder. I'm trying to play the mp3s in iTunes. The device is not showing up in iTunes or in the Finder. Assuming that the cables are good, what else should I look for?
MP3 player not able to play music (and not showing up in Finder or iTunes)
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This is likely happening because of the playlist and letting iTunes sort your music. Everytime you import the playlist the playlist imports the songs and then iTunes organizes those songs. For some reason it doesn't realize that's importing already organized songs. Find the playlist and delete it and the problem should go away chances are it's an .m3u.
Here is my little script to do what you are asking for. Tested on a couple of tracks on my iTunes 11 under Snow Leopard and it run just fine.
tell application "iTunes"
set myMusicLib to some playlist whose special kind is Music
log "Debug: Count of library items: " & (count of tracks of myMusicLib)
set myNewTracks to (get tracks in myMusicLib whose bit rate is greater than 256)
log "Debug: Count hi bit rate tracks: " & (count of myNewTracks)
repeat with newTrack in myNewTracks
-- Try to match it with a low bit rate track
set trackName to name of newTrack
set albumName to album of newTrack
--log "Debug: Hi Rate Track Name: " & (get name of newTrack)
--log "Debug: Rate: " & (get bit rate of newTrack)
set oldTracks to {}
try
set oldTracks to (get tracks in myMusicLib ¬
whose bit rate is less than 256 ¬
and name is trackName ¬
and album is albumName)
end try
if (count of oldTracks) is 1 then
log "Debug: Dup Name: " & trackName
log "Debug: BitRate: " & (get bit rate of item 1 of oldTracks)
set oldPlayCount to (get played count of item 1 of oldTracks)
set played count of newTrack to oldPlayCount
log "Debug: Reset Play Count to: " & oldPlayCount
set oldRating to (get rating of item 1 of oldTracks)
set rating of newTrack to oldRating
log "Debug: Reset rating to: " & oldRating
end if
if (count of oldTracks) is greater than 1 then
log "ERROR: Found more than 1 duplicate. Not doing anything."
end if
end repeat
end tell
EDIT:
You can get a glimpse of what is going on by looking at the output it sents to the Events pane. Just run it inside the Applescript Editor and click on the Events & Replies buttons to unhighlight them.
EDIT2:
To limit the script you can change the line
set myNewTracks to (get tracks in myMusicLib whose bit rate is greater than 256)
to
set myNewTracks to (get tracks in myMusicLib whose bit rate is greater than 256 and Album is "My Album Name")
Best Answer
I believe that a voice recorder would be seen by Mac OS X as either an MP3 player or a flash drive. In that case, one of the last articles published by Apple on support for non-Apple music players in iTunes is here. It is not a recent list, but I have very little reason to believe that any other players are being added to it. In fact, it would seem reasonable that Apple has stopped support for most MP3 players other than iPods at this time.
The best bet for any non-Apple MP3 player drivers for Mac OS X would be to go directly to the website of PoGo. After running a few searches, I could not even find their website (pogo.com actually takes you to an Electronic Arts gaming site).
I am sorry to say that there may not be a way to access your device. I would think that Mac OS X would at least try and mount it as a USB flash drive, but since it didn't I am not sure what other options are out there for you.
Have you tried using that same USB cable and PoGo device on a Windows machine? At the very least, if Windows can mount it that would tell you that both the device and cable are okay. Windows does reasonably well with its generic drivers for things like cameras and flash drives.
For illustration's sake, let's say that Windows is the only way to have access to your device. If so, then a way to get to use your Mac with it would be with something like Parallels, VMware or Boot Camp. You could have Windows load the files and those files would be accessible to you from the Mac's Finder. You could then drag the files into iTunes. But it just feels like too much effort installing all of that. But then again, the PoGo might be a great voice recorder. Hope this helps and good luck.