How do I import to iPhone from Editor

[CHartman]

I'm very happy to report that it now works -- now that I've got Mail working to receive on the iPod. Thanks! So far so good.

I'm not happy about having to use Mail on the Mac itself to send it. (It fusses with the system here in little bad ways.) It occurred to me that if the problem is with receiving the link-message in a browser, maybe I could send from browser-based mail on the Mac. But now when I try that (through Google Notifier, the only option besides Mal for a default mail reader), I get an error message: "Request-URI Too Large -- The requested URL /accounts/TokenAuth... is too large to process."

Anyone know a way around that?

[dflat]

Could a Gmail address cause the song-thing to get rendered as a character string and not show up as a link? (That seems to be what's happening.)

I think this is possible and seems to be what is happening with others' experiences (but not entirely sure as I have not carried out lots of tests on this.)

...this address gets translated behind the scenes into a gmail.com one of some kind.

This could be what is happening.

Any other ideas? .... (A whole suitcase of fake books on one backlighted tablet??) I'd need to know I could use/modify it, though.

You could find someone (family member or friend) with an ISP-based email address and run some tests using their email address (temporarily!) with the view to adding you as a new user using that ISP email system. Their ISP might enable different users under the same account without you needing to create and pay a separate account.

You might be able to find another user of iReal book and ask what email address/ISP they use.

iPad is very useful for adding all your music charts (iReal book and iBook app - showing scans of anything you need in PDF form.) You would love it.
iPad could connect via 3G to an account (so you use this outside your work internet and email system entirely.)

... I get all my mail through Safari instead. There, the message's content does not appear as a link. So I think the problem must be on the receiving end, a problem with receiving the file within a browser? Does that sound right?

I would think so.

I'm very happy to report that it now works -- now that I've got Mail working to receive on the iPod. Thanks!

Great news!

...But now when I try that (through Google Notifier, the only option besides Mal for a default mail reader), I get an error message: "Request-URI Too Large -- The requested URL /accounts/TokenAuth... is too large to process."

Anyone know a way around that?

Not sure what this means exactly. I know that many ISPs have a maximum file size restriction for (perhaps both) sending and receiving. This is why many use Dropbox or ftp or MobileMe (Mac), cloud-based services etc. for sending and receiving big files. Also if you are sending (or receiving) through your work, the computer system there might be restricting file sizes also.
- Not that our song codes are large, but if there is 'corruption' or alterations/additions or confusion of what it thinks it is, then it might create an error message (as unhelpful as it is.)

Anything else to report yet?

[CHartman]

Not sure what this means exactly. I know that many ISPs have a maximum file size restriction for (perhaps both) sending and receiving. This is why many use Dropbox or ftp or MobileMe (Mac), cloud-based services etc. for sending and receiving big files. Also if you are sending (or receiving) through your work, the computer system there might be restricting file sizes also.
- Not that our song codes are large, but if there is 'corruption' or alterations/additions or confusion of what it thinks it is, then it might create an error message (as unhelpful as it is.)

(referring to the error message I got) I suspect what it means is not that the data in the message/object/iRealBook thingy is too big. As far as I can tell, the song's entire content is being used as the link. So Chrome looks at it and sees it as a URL too big to parse. Does that make sense?

There has to be an easier way to "package" the song for transfer to an iPod etc that doesn't run into all these variables. But I admit I can't think what it would be.

[dflat]

... So Chrome looks at it and sees it as a URL too big to parse. Does that make sense?...
There has to be an easier way to "package" the song for transfer to an iPod etc that doesn't run into all these variables. But I admit I can't think what it would be.

We had problems with Chrome for our web editor and do not recommend it for this reason. I am not surprised it does not work for webmail and our song code. Chrome is made by Google who make gmail so it all probably goes through the same systems (coding etc.)

The Mac editor creates a 'normal' computer file if you save it, but it needs to work with our web editor, forum and iOS (and we have a basic version of iReal book on Android.) The format of songs may very well change in the future to make this process more seamless and easier.

[Kalokagathon]

I'm posting this in two different places.
I received an .irb file from a Mac App user, but my iphone was not able to open it ("Mail cannot open this attachment"). I believe it should, from reading posts. I asked to send it again by choosing a different option from the menu, but shouldn't the file be universally openable?
Cheers.
David

Edit: OK, just read this thread: Backup or transferring from Mac editor between iReal book for Mac. Too bad (.irb files aren't openable with ios)...

[timwat]

I need some help as well.

I'm using iRealBook Editor 0.6.4 on OS X 10.7.2, and have created a five song playlist, and saved as an .irb.

When I click on "Playlist to Device", it creates a new email in Mail 5.1 (which I have set as my default email client), but it does not embed a link or attachment. All it creates an an email with the song titles...no link or attachment.

When I email this to myself and pick it up on the iPhone 4s, there's nothing to click on.

Can anyone provide some guidance? Thanks so much.

Tim

[massimobio]

There is a conflict with Lion.
I've fixed the editor.
Download the new one form the website (it's still named 0.6.4) and see if it works.

http://irealb.com/downloads/ireal_book_editor_0.6.4.zip