Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] gen 4

[Tom P. <to...@ca...>]

Peter <pet...@si...> wrote:

>     A friend of mine got an ipod for christmas and he wanted me to put
>some music in it.  Problem is, I use an old Mac OS 9 computer for
>playing mp3s, my OS X laptop has no mp3s on it and no room for them, my

If you can mount the mp3s on a linux (or maybe os x) machine then you can use
SyncPOD http://freshmeat.net/projects/syncpod/ which simply copies a directory
of mp3s onto the ipod with the appropriate database manipulations. There are
also a number of other such programs to copy mp3s to the ipod from linux. You
can't just copy the mp3s on with cp, you have to put them in a special
place and create a database that the ipod uses to generate the menus and find
the files in it's filesystem (it doesn't do this itself when it boots).

If os 9 doesn't allow you to share the mp3s on a network, then maybe one of
the linux ftp filesystems will work?

If you have less than 10GB of mp3s to sync, mount the ipod on your linux box.
ftp the mp3s to the ipod and put them in a temporary directory. Then use
syncpod to sync them from the temp directory on the ipod to the ipod's own
structure (which will copy them, hence you can only use half the ipod). Then
delete the temporary directory if you want to use the ipod to sneakernet
other random files.

The only issue is that SyncPOD is such that if you delete the source
directory, it will sync this change and delete all the music on the ipod --
it's designed to sync your computer's collection with the ipod. This is a
problem if you want to sync more songs after you have deleted the
temporary directory.

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