iPod Agent 0.6.0 Released!

[Shadow]

This is a big update!

iPod Agent 0.6.2 allows you to download movie showtimes from the internet onto your iPod, lets you download daily
horoscopes from the internet to your iPod, has a whole new look to its song browsing capability, and includes
a lot of other improvements.

iPod Agent 0.6.2 adds the following enhancments:

• Song Browser
  Browse the songs on your iPod in the same way iTunes allows you to browse the songs on your desktop. Once you have songs selected, you can then choose to transfer them off the iPod and onto your PC or you can create a listing of the selected songs in a number of formats (HTML, CSV, Text, etc). In addition, this version adds a ton of new features. The new song browser also allows you to play the selected song while it is on your iPod.
• Auto Sync (New Feature)
  You can now setup iPod Agent to automatically synchronize your PC with your iPod. This can be configured to happen whenever you dock your iPod or at a scheduled time during the day. When setup for auto sync, iPod Agent will be minimized to an icon in your system tray instead of taking up room on your task bar.
• Self Aware
  iPod Agent will now detect if another copy of itself is already running and not allow you to open multiple copies.
• Floppy Drives Skipped
  When iPod Agent detects that an iPod has been connected, it scans the drives to find out which drive letter has been assigned to it. In prior versions, it scanned floppy drives which caused them to power
  up for a second. This version skips checking floppy drives which helps speed the process.
• Exporting Lists
  The Export Listing functionality has been greatly improved. You can now select any selection of songs you want to include on the listing. The HTML format listing have been improved with a much better look
  and the dynamic HTML version is much faster. The Export Listing function has been combined with the Music Transfer function. You now go to the song browser and select the songs you want. You then just click a button to either transfer those songs to your PC or to create a listing. This allows listing to contain any songs you want (certain albums only, certain artists only, all songs, etc.). The prior versions only allowed creating a list of all the songs on your iPod. You can also now select what data you want in your listing (song title, artist, bitrate, size, etc.).
• Transfer Songs from iPod to PC
  The transfer songs from iPod to PC function has been greatly improved as well. It is now easier to select which songs you want to tranfer by using the new Song Browser window. You can now specify a custom format for the directory structure that will be created when transferring the songs to your PC. A new format code
  to format track numbers as two digits (track #1 becomes track #01, etc) has been added. You can now optionally specify a "media size" for the destination directory. This is useful if you plan on burning the songs to CD or DVD after you've transferred them to your PC. If you select "DVD" media, it will then create mulitple "disk" directories that will only contain the number of songs that will fit onto a DVD. After the songs are transferred to the PC, you may have a "Disk 1" folder, "Disk 2" folder, etc. You would then know you can select all the songs in "Disk 1" and burn them to a DVD. Then, do the same for each of the other "Disk" folders.
• Folder Synchronization (New Feature)
  Allows you to specify any folder on your PC to be synchronized with your iPod. The contents of the specified folder will be copied a specified folder on the iPod.
• Horoscope Synchronization (New Feature)
  Daily horoscopes can now be downloaded to your iPod from the internet.
• Movie Showtime Synchronization (New Feature)
  The showtimes of movies at your local theatres can now be downloaded to your iPod from the internet.
• Outlook Calendar Synchronization
  You can now specify how many days into the future for which you want to include appointments as well as how many days in the past from which you want to include appointments.
• Outlook Mail Synchronization
  Mail synchronization now allows you to specify how many days in the past from which you want to include mail. You can also select to include the date the mail item was received to the beginning of the email name on your iPod. This results in the mail to be sorted by date when viewed on the iPod. Mail items larger than 4kb are now broken up into 4kb chunks and linked together. In prior versions, large email would get truncated on the iPod.
• Weather Synchronization
  Weather forecasts downloaded to your iPod are now broken up into 4kb files if they are larger than 4kb. In prior versions, if these files were larger than 4kb they would get truncated on the iPod.
• RSS Feed Synchronization
  RSS news feeds are now named with the name entered by the user for the news feed within iPod Agent. Prior versions would name the feeds based on the name inside the feed itself. Also, the files are now broken up into 4kb files if they are larger than 4kb.
• Resizable Windows
  Many of iPod Agent windows are now resizable. If a window contains a list of items, it is probably resizable. When the window is resized, the listing will expand/shrink to allow you to see more information at a time if you have a large monitor.
• Integrated Help
  iPod Agent now has online Help. From any window within iPod Agent, press the F1 key on your keyboard to open the help system.

You can get more information at www.ipodagent.com or you can download this new version directly by clicking here.

Enjoy!

[mozzer1984]

First i want to say that this is a REALLY GREAT PROGRAM but i have a small request. I go to school in a small college town and i can't get the movie listings here. Any chance on getting a second option to look up movie listings through.

[Shadow]

What's your zip code? I'm currently using hollywood.com.

[enjoilax]

Shadow... we need to talk about that little "agent" guy... I like the old dude better!!!

Btw who let you out of your cage?

[Shadow]

You don't like my SouthPark agent?

I've been wanting to find a new graphic for my "agent". I had been using the agent graphic from Microsoft Agent and I figured I should create my own instead of ripping off MS. If anyone can come up with a custom agent icon that looks better, feel free to send 'em to me.

And, I found a broken bar in the back of the cage.

[mozzer1984]

The Zip Code is 75965 Nacogdoches, TX...thanks

[noogabooga]

I was wondering what happened to the development of iPodAgent! Great to see major changes.

A few points tho:

- I was clicking on various albums in the Export Music section when the following error message popped up: An unhandled exception has occured in your application..... Syntax error: Missing operand after 'S' operator. Here's the detailed info:

************** Exception Text **************
System.Data.SyntaxErrorException: Syntax error: Missing operand after 'S' operator.
at System.Data.ExpressionParser.Parse()
at System.Data.DataExpression..ctor(String expression, DataTable table, Type type)
at System.Data.DataView..ctor(DataTable table, String RowFilter, String Sort, DataViewRowState RowState)
at Red####.Mark.Maggie.App.SongBrowser_Control.FillSo ngList()
at Red####.Mark.Maggie.App.SongBrowser_Control.lstAlb um_SelectedIndexChanged(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ListBox.OnSelectedIndexChange d(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.ListBox.WmReflectCommand(Mess age& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ListBox.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage (Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(M essage& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

- In the RSS News Feed settings window I have to scroll horizontally to see the last column. Make the length of the window longer perhaps?

- The Status of Horoscopes did not change to `Synchronisation Complete` after a sync - Horoscopes did sync tho. Imagine this display problem would also affect Movies and Folders?

- Love the new Folders Sync! Useful for me as I use my iPod to store monthly backups. Is it smart enough to copy only files that are new since the last sync tho? Dont want it to copy a few Gigabytes of data across each time I sync, even though the files havent changed.

- Didn't like the new agent logo either

[grimmet]

hmm icon...?
ok. ...only a small suggestion .

[EDIT]
i deleted the links to the icon suggestion, because it has been declined .

[hoopchick18]

I love the new update of iPod Agent. I really love the new additions of the horoscopes and movie listings and since I live in a big city (Chicago) they have a crapload of movie theater listings. So I can know the movie times no matter what part of the city I am in. Keep up the good work.

[rmoody]

Originally posted by mozzer1984
The Zip Code is 75965 Nacogdoches, TX...thanks

Cool Nacogdoches, I work for BancorpSouth in Tupelo, MS; we have a few branches in the area. Neat to know where people are sometimes.

[Mr94Supra]

STILL a Great app! Man keep it up! BUT I have a request...when getting music off your iPod. Can you make so we can transfer the "playlist"? Ex. I have the Millenium Funk Party which is a various artist album. I created a playlist called Millenium Funk Party and I meant to transfer the entire collection of songs just as I have it on the iPod to the pc in a folder called the same, but ended up doing by artist/album. Needless to say gotta search thru some 300 folders to find each file. CRAP! Just a suggestion to be able to transfer songs as playlist as well as artist, album and such.

[maximum]

All I can say is that this program gets better and better every update!

[enjoilax]

Originally posted by Shadow
You don't like my SouthPark agent?

I've been wanting to find a new graphic for my "agent". I had been using the agent graphic from Microsoft Agent and I figured I should create my own instead of ripping off MS. If anyone can come up with a custom agent icon that looks better, feel free to send 'em to me.

And, I found a broken bar in the back of the cage.

I KNEW IT!!!

[Shadow]

mozzer1984, I'll see what I can do for an alternate movie listing site.

noogabooga, arrgh...not that "s" error again. I had problems with that with some of the original releases. Would you be able to email me your iTunesDB file off your iPod? This would help me find the problem. It's located on your iPod in the iPod_Control\iTunes folder.

As for the RSS settings window being too small, well, you know it's now resiable don't you? Just grab the lower right hand corner and drag it to make it larger.

Currently, the folder sync isn't "smart". It will copy over all files each time. I'll see what I can do to add that into the next release. I'm also probably going to add a single file sync as well.

I guess my new logo has to go. I'll work on that too.

grimmet, thanks for the icon. It's not bad but I'm not sure I like it enought to use it.

Mr94Supra, I'm not sure what you are asking. You can already select a playlist from the playlist dropdown box. If you want to transfer all the songs from one playlist, just select the playlist and check all the songs for it and transfer away. Are you asking for something different?

maximum, thanks!

[Shadow]

noogabooga, I found the bug that was causing the "syntax error" you were getting. I've uploaded a new version that fixes this problem. Please download version 0.6.1 here or visit the website at www.ipodagent.com.