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music gone from ipod's original firmware (was: I DONT UNDERSTAND)

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maraz:
"At the very start of the database, a couple of what appear to be SHA1 hashes have been inserted which appear to lock the iTunes database to one particular iPod and prevent any modification of the database file. If you try to do either of these, the hashes will not match and the iPod will report that it contains "0 songs" when the iTunesDB would otherwise be perfectly adequate."

Read about it here.

GodEater:

--- Quote from: maraz on September 17, 2007, 03:25:08 AM ---"At the very start of the database, a couple of what appear to be SHA1 hashes have been inserted which appear to lock the iTunes database to one particular iPod and prevent any modification of the database file. If you try to do either of these, the hashes will not match and the iPod will report that it contains "0 songs" when the iTunesDB would otherwise be perfectly adequate."

Read about it here.

--- End quote ---

What has this got to do with the thread ? It only applies to the new iPods, released Sept. '07, NONE of which run Rockbox.

tdtooke:
If other things don't work out for you then you might try foobar with the foo_dop plugin.  It has a rebuild database feature which may, or may not help you.  If all else fails I do know one thing guaranteed to work: Add the music folder in iPod_Control to your library in RealPlayer.  Then use RealPlayer's rename and move feature to put the music back on your hard-drive.  Then you can restore your iPod and move the music back over.  Granted, that's a very bad worst-case solution, but I guarantee that will work.

Flid:
Assuming the original files are still intact, and it's just a problem with the iTunes DB...

Just COPY the entire ipod control/music/ folder to another computer (this will be your eventual back-up). All tracks will still be named XLKY.mp3 etc.

Use a tagging program (or MediaMonkey) to completely re-build filenames and folder structure based on tag info (Genre/Artist/Album/## - Track  or whatever).

Ta Da... fully backed-up music directory with proper names and everything, and it literally takes seconds.

Connect iPod to iTunes. Restore. Copy/sync music back over.
Re-install Rockbox. Force database re-build.
Sorted.

Did this for my girlfriend last week, and another mate a few months prior (but that involved a fully crashed harddrive recovery and weeks of sifting through music to determine spurious corruptions).

- edit - Oops. Sorry Tooke. I failed to read the last few lines of your post (brain switched off as soon as you mentioned realplayer ~shiver~)

maraz:

--- Quote from: GodEater on September 17, 2007, 03:58:03 AM ---What has this got to do with the thread ? It only applies to the new iPods, released Sept. '07, NONE of which run Rockbox.

--- End quote ---

Ah, you are correct. Sorry for the derail.

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