On 09/24/2012 02:27 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Sunday, 23. September 2012. 21.22.50 JD wrote:
On 09/23/2012 09:10 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
I have an old 80GB iPod that has a bunch of music on it that I'd like
to get off.
Good luck.
I've tried to use gtkpod, but the stock export dumps everything into
one directory. That's not very useful.
Does anyone know of a way to dump an iPod to my filesystem with the
format:
/home/Music/ipod/[artist]/[album]/[track]
Is your ipod filesystem mounted on Linux when you plug your ipod into USB?
No, generically it isn't. iPod (and iPhone, and I suspect other stuff from
Apple) does not allow its filesystem to be visible via USB transparently. One
has to use iTunes or gtkpod or some other program in order to communicate with
the iPod.
Furthermore, even if one manages to mount the iPod filesystem somehow (there
are ways to do that, at least on a jailbroken iPod), it will not help the OP.
Namely, the music files on the iPod filesystem itself are all dumped in one
single big directory, while the artist/album/track structure is being
maintained in a database.
Thank Apple.
The OP should probably use gtkpod to dump all the music files into a single
directory onto the computer, then copy the appropriate database file from the
iPod, open it and rename all files according to the database entries.
I don't know if there are any tools that might automate that process. Windows
and OSX users use iTunes to "synchronize music libraries" across various
devices. Linux, however, does not seem to be supported by Apple...
HTH, :-)
Marko
"Linux, however, does not seem to be supported by Apple..."
Which is sad, you'd think they'd WANT to "play nice" with others in order to expand their market share and make the world a better place, but alas I guess when it's concerning Apple, it's all about Apple! But I'm not flaming, I happen to have an iPod Nano which I use to play music when I'm mowing the lawn, raking the leaves, shovelling the snow etc....
EGO II
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