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[iPod 5G] Read iPod native playlists in Rb database
crzyboyster:
Llorean: How do you manage to handle these forums and the emotional troubles it entails? I have seen so many arguments with you and people pestering you (me included) about rockbox features and the like.
How do you do it? You're like superman to me.
GodEater:
--- Quote from: SovietCommissar on December 16, 2007, 10:41:34 PM ---Keep up the grand work! You'll never hear a complaint out of me so long as Rockbox continues to grow; I wish I could code, or come within some semblance thereof, but I don't think I'm cut out for much more than HTML, XML and CSS.
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Why not have a good at the "redesign the front page" request that was submitted in the Annoucements forum a few months back. Despite lots of people who've made similar claims to yourself about not being able to do much except web pages - we've had not a single submission there yet.
vcardenas:
--- Quote from: ooosadface on September 27, 2007, 11:12:20 AM ---Ok, I waited for things to cool down a bit before I registered and started posting... First off, thanks for RockBox, I will be donating soon.
As far as iTunes playlists are concerned, I think vcardenas might have been pushed to the side during all the ruckus. The tiny piece of software he offered in his post here worked wonders on my smart playlists in iTunes!
The playlists stores songs by the song filename and since iTunes converts all filenames into a 4 character code it makes it a bit difficult to know what the song is in the list. But the playlist is still 100% functional and the title display during playback is spot on (including the 'Next' title).
vcardenas - if you could tweak it to get the title name as the displayed name in the created .m3u8 list that would rock (no pun intended).
What I do now is, maintain what music I want on my iPod via iTunes (since I have too much to fit on my 30gb disk) and manage my playlist via iTunes and re-run this little app when I make a change.
Thanks vcardenas!
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To ooosadface and choodo, i'm glad that you two found useful my app. This motivates me to improve it a little, and i share it to everyone in
http://vcardenasblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/ipod-to-rockbox-playlist-converter.html
ooosadface: you are right about the filenames in 4 characters... to address this i made that the playlist generated to be in M3U Extended Format, so it can be correctly shown if the patch made for Xinlu Huang is accepted (or at least applied in a unsopported build).
The patch is FS#7652
kiwibird:
Hi all, just thought I'd mention my own story in case someone on a Mac (who doesn't like being dependent on wine) wants to convert their iTunes playlists to the m3u/m3u8 (rockbox) format. Here's what I did:
1. Downloaded Songbird.
2. Let it import all my iTunes stuff.
3. Added the extension Playlist Export Tool
4. Exported my playlists to ~/Music
5.
--- Code: ---rsync -avW --progress --size-only --delete ~/Music/* /Volumes/IPODNAME/Music/
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6.
--- Code: ---touch /Volumes/IPODNAME/iPod_Control/Music/database.ignore
--- End code ---
At the moment, since I'm still "just testing" rockbox, I have two copies of my music on the iPod, one in the iTunes-folder (iPod_Control/Music) with their ugly naming scheme, and one in Music. Reason being, I don't like having lots of four-letter words in my playlists, but I also want to be able to dual-boot. The database.ignore file makes sure we don't get duplicates from iPod_Control.
Regarding the playlist export: when I looked at the files, they had the full local path (/Users/username/Music) but somehow Rockbox played them alright. Crazy stuff. Not sure if this is something that works completely, but there have been several requests off the extension developer to add support for relative paths too, hopefully someone will code that.
Anyhow, point being: this setup works for me, I hope it helps possible other people searching the forums and wondering what to do with their millions of iTunes playlists.
Thanks to all the developers for making Rockbox, I think I might be sticking with it :-)
On a side note: Would it be an idea to perhaps have a forum for questions that are explicitly not meant for developers? A forum where users are free to whine about this or that, you know, get it out of their system, until someone walks in and tells them "hey, just look at http://... , someone fixed it for us!" Eh?
Febs:
--- Quote from: kiwibird on January 10, 2009, 04:47:09 AM ---On a side note: Would it be an idea to perhaps have a forum for questions that are explicitly not meant for developers? A forum where users are free to whine about this or that, you know, get it out of their system, until someone walks in and tells them "hey, just look at http://... , someone fixed it for us!" Eh?
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These forums are specifically geared towards Rockbox users already. Relatively few of the developers monitor the forums. Most development-related discussion takes place on IRC or the developer mailing list.
We're happy to respond to questions and to try to solve problems here. We also have a feature request forum for fielding suggestions for new features. I'm not inclined to create a forum that is specifically intended to let people "whine." If they have a question, they can ask it, and we're here to help answer.
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