Re: [Gtkpod-devel] Support for September 2010 iPod shuffle

[Christophe F. <cfe...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 07:07:26AM -0400, Adam Broschinski wrote:
> As far as I know no time has been spent trying to get a new shuffle (4th gen) to 
> work. What currently needs to be done is basic testing. Does the shuffle already 
> work with libgpod, meaning is the iTunesDB format the same and is the iTunesSD 
> format the same? If it doesn't work why? And if the there is a new iTunesDB or 
> iTunesSD the new formats need to be figured out and documented and the new code 
> would need to be written. There may be more to do but that's all I can think 
> of.

Yep, that's a pretty accurate summary. Basically, if I had such a new
device in my hands, what I'd do is:
* assuming songs were added to it using iTunes, I'd save the output of 
  ls -lR /media/ipod for later
* assuming the previous step shows there are iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesSD
  and iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB (or iTunesCDB) files, I'd save them for
  later to look at them (and if there are .itdb file, I'd save these too)
* I'd check if an iPod_Control/Device/SysInfoExtended file has been created 
  and save it too
* finally, I'd try accessing it using libgpod 0.7.94 or newer

Giving us a way to access all the info I said I'd save in the 1st 3 steps
would already be really useful to try to figure out whether the device has
a chance to be easily supported or not.

Hope that helps,

Christophe