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tomster:
First of all: Decent piece of work!
I almost immediately dumped the original firmware for rockbox. To be exact it took me an estimated 2 Minutes after unpacking the device ;-)

But after getting a new car (with iPod support) I'm sort of stuck with my iPod since the serial protocol seems not to be fully implemented in the latest rockbox builds. And man, I really do love my own folder structure, so dropping rockbox for iTunes is not an option.
What to do?
MediaMonkey seemed to be able to mess with the iTunes DB (up to one of the latest Apple Updates) allowing alternate file locations. But Apple obviously tweaked that out in one of the last FW-updates.
So I was wondering whether someone already came up with a alternative?

One way could be to start a folder structure similar to the iTunes way ( F01,F02,...) in /iPod_Control/iTunes and sym-link the original files (in the rockbox structure) within the "new" iTunes-fake-folders.
Sadly I have no clue on how the iTunes-DB works and don't know how to set up a "dry-run" without messing up my existing structure.
Maybe someone on the forum could come up with a hint...

Greetings from Germany,
TOM

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: tomster on October 23, 2007, 08:02:03 AM ---One way could be to start a folder structure similar to the iTunes way ( F01,F02,...) in /iPod_Control/iTunes and sym-link the original files (in the rockbox structure) within the "new" iTunes-fake-folders.
--- End quote ---
FAT doesn't support symlinks.

Unless there is a hacked Apple firmware around that can handle alternative file locations I only see the solution to keep the obfuscated structure generated by Itunes.

Or get the serial device working in Rockbox ;)

scharkalvin:
If all of your music is properly tagged then rockbox will be able to build a database so you can access your music without using the file structure.  OTOH the ipod firmware expects the itunes database and directory structure.  So if you want to have your cake and also eat it, you must use itunes to add music to the iPod.  You can then boot into rockbox OR the OF at will to play it.  If you want to add non supported file formats (like OGG) they will only play in rockbox, so you can just drop them in your own directory.  The apple OF won't find or play them.

Note that adding tags to the itunes database does NOT put the tags into the media files, you must do that with other software before you add the files to the ipod.  Once the songs are added with itunes the ONLY way rockbox will find them is via the database if the files have the tags set, otherwise you will see logs of entries in the rockbox database!  

GodEater:
You could try rolling back to a very early version of the Apple firmware for your device and seeing whether MediaMonkey or foodop's method of re-writing the iTunesDB on the device then works.

@scharkalvin: Note - some users don't like the database in Rockbox. Myself included.

scharkalvin:

--- Quote ---Once the songs are added with itunes the ONLY way rockbox will find them is via the database if the files have the tags set, otherwise you will see logs of  entries in the rockbox database!  
--- End quote ---

I meant  to say you would have lots of !untagged! entries in the rockbox database.
I put "" around the untagged and the forum script must have deleted them thinking it was an html tag.  UGGG.

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