[Tfug] iPods

[Don Freeman]

I'm not sure. I'll try to remember to look at it tonight. I know I just
dragged my contacts list onto it. But I am using iTunes for the mp3s. 

- Don
-----Original Message-----
From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org [mailto:tfug-bounces at tfug.org] On Behalf Of
Bexley Hall
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 12:41 PM
To: Tucson Free Unix Group
Subject: Re: [Tfug] iPods

Hi Don,

--- On Mon, 8/31/09, Don Freeman <DFreeman at pagnet.org> wrote:

> I haven't tried copying music files this way but my 30gig Ipod will 
> function quite nicely as a USB hard drive.

Does it require any special drivers, etc. (or, does it just look like a
"mass storage device")?

I like the Shuffle because I can plug it into damn near any computer and
just drag files onto it (like a disk).  I have a tiny little application
that rebuilds the "control files"
on it so that the Shuffle knows what to play, etc.

This is a win as I can almost always find a computer that I can do this with
(regardless of whether or not iTunes is installed, etc.).  I probably should
recompile the code for Mac's as well -- though I find so few of them that it
might just be a waste of a few KB  :-/

Unfortunately, for a larger iPod, my naive playlist tool would be a pain in
the *ss since it doesn't give you any control over what gets played and the
order thereof.  (hence the reason for writing a better app to do this).

Thx,
--son


      

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