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[iPod 5G] Read iPod native playlists in Rb database
vcardenas:
Hi...
I have a little application that i made in .net using the library SharePodLib that i've been using for exactly the same purpose you want: generating playlist for rockbox from the SmartPlaylists in iTunesDB... so i want to share it.
It reads all the Smart Playlists stored in the Ipod generated with iTunes, and creates a playlist for each one with the same name in *.m3u8 format, so it can be read from rockbox. The playlists created are stored in the "Playlists" folder in the iPod.
You must have iTunes closed and it needs .NET framework 2.0 to run (can be downloaded from here).
The app is here.
Update: Deceber 21, 2007
A new version with support for both Smart and Normal Playlist is available.
Go to iPod to RockBox Playlist Converter
Hope it can help you.
gratt:
Before sound was supported on the Sansa I created a playlist converter
Rockbox Plugin (FS #6884) to convert playlists between RB and the OF.
If some one uploads an IPod playlist I will look at adding support for convertion
to .m3u8 playlists for RB.
I do not have an IPod but desperately needed such a feature for my Sansa.
I have my doubts this will ever get included in SVN though.
I will also need to know the location of the playlist files in the IPod file structure,
and where you would like the converted .m3u8 file.
Only trying to be helpful.
GRaTT
saratoga:
--- Quote from: gratt on July 12, 2007, 02:23:11 PM ---
I do not have an IPod but desperately needed such a feature for my Sansa.
I have my doubts this will ever get included in SVN though.
I will also need to know the location of the playlist files in the IPod file structure,
and where you would like the converted .m3u8 file.
--- End quote ---
I don't see any reason we couldn't commit that once you're done working on it. It would probably be helpful to many users.
GodEater:
--- Quote from: saratoga on July 12, 2007, 02:36:12 PM ---I don't see any reason we couldn't commit that once you're done working on it. It would probably be helpful to many users.
--- End quote ---
Indeed not - we never said we wouldn't put the feature in if someone wrote it. I think we said the exact opposite - we said go write it someone!
bluebrother:
--- Quote from: GodEater on July 12, 2007, 03:27:49 PM ---Indeed not - we never said we wouldn't put the feature in if someone wrote it. I think we said the exact opposite - we said go write it someone!
--- End quote ---
And just to emphasize this: Rockbox already has a plugin called "iriverify" which converts Rockbox playlists to a format the Iriver firmware (h100 and h300 series, don't know about h10) can read (which is also m3u, but with different path delimiters).
Also, a plugin doesn't affect the core, so it's much more likely to get such a feature added as plugin.
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