[Tfug] iPods

[Don Freeman]

I spent some time last night playing with the file system on my 30gig iPod.
You CAN copy files to it via drag and drop BUT it appears the iPod software
uses some kind of database to manage them. So the bad news is that while you
can copy them, you probably can't play them. However, if you are willing to
tolerate windows, there are many alternate desktop softwares available to
manage the files other than iTunes. Just Google iPod software. I wasn't able
to find any Linux versions though. :( 

- 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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