Re: Looking for a way to get mp3s off an ipod

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:52:40PM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 14:03 -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:27:03PM -0700, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > You can access the files on an iPod as a USB drive. I do so on my system
> > (F17, Gnome, iPod 160GB) without an issue.
> 
> Yes, but the filenames are random character strings unrelated to the
> original titles except via a database. You need a library that
> understands the database format in order to make sense of it.

Apps like Banshee read the ID3 data out of the files and can set the
name appropriately. Pretty easy to do.

-- 
Darryl L. Pierce <mcpierce@xxxxxxxxx>
http://mcpierce.multiply.com/
"What do you care what people think, Mr. Feynman?"

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