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Mr Green:
Hi,

After messing up itunes playlist on my ipod I installed Rockbox and it found all my music  :)

I wish to backup my music to pc is there a way to do this when using rockbox most players in Linux do not see the music on the ipod [as they are looking for itunes I guess]

Do any Linux media players supprt rockbox format as it were?

Thanks

MrG

[ipod 5th Gen Video Rockbox user]

Chronon:
A Rockboxed player is just a UMS device.  This should work fine with a number of players.  I used to use Amarok 1.x quite happily, though it's not available by default anymore. 

One option would be to just copy the whole /iPod_Control/Music/ directory to your PC then use a tagging program to organize them in directories according to their tags.

bluebrother:
Rockbox does not have any special format. You simply put the files on the player, which appears as removable disk drive. Therefore you can the same way as you put the music on your player also copy it back using any management software you like or no management software at all and just Windows Explorer / Konqueror / Nautilus / shell.

I find your question somewhat confusing, but from what I understand I assume that you problem is that you don't "see" the music. Itunes puts the music files below the iPod_Control folder in the root of your Ipod but scrambles the filenames. This folder is also marked as hidden. You can copy the files back from that location any way you like -- you just need to live with the scrambled filenames (or mass rename them afterwards). Rockbox does not require any special disk layout, file names or similar, so there is no need for Itunes and scrambles filenames when putting the music on the player.

Mr Green:
ok, my ipod had loads of music on it and I removed the cable before ejecting it correctly and itunes could no longer find my music

Did not want to restore as I knew I would lose the lot

After installing Rockbox the database updated and found the tracks on the pod, so no problem there

Wish to back up the tracks if possible [looks as if its a simple task]

Tried Floola Yamipod Banshee if I could see the files as rockbox does then would be an easy task to backup tracks

Tried using Rsync on Music folder but got loads of errors [file ones]

Thanks for the help

MrG

bluebrother:
Well, I've already told you how you can copy the files back. If you get errors you should run chkdsk /f (windows) or fsck.vfat (linux) on the drive.

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