Rockbox Development > Feature Ideas

IpodDisk-like USB mode

<< < (2/3) > >>

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: Astorga on June 10, 2010, 03:31:02 PM ---Well, iPod has the file organization problem when you upload music trough iTunes. Since rockbox can understand that structure, would be nice (at least I think) to navigate trough database in my PC with iPod connected, so that I can backup my songs back to PC.

--- End quote ---

You can use that. Use Itunes. That's exactly how the Ipods work. (And the Apple firmware doesn't do anything there either. It's simply the database, it's maintained by Itunes, and the only thing the Ipod does is reading it.)

Astorga:
The problem is that i can't copy songs from iPod to PC using iTunes. What iPodDisk does is mount iPod as if the file structure was the database itself.
See this picture:
http://sourceforge.net/dbimage.php?id=47937

The folders that appear are not real folders. Instead, they are, from left to right, the artist and album list, respectively.

gevaerts:
It sounds like MTP might possibly do what you want

saratoga:

--- Quote from: Astorga on June 10, 2010, 03:43:29 PM ---The problem is that i can't copy songs from iPod to PC using iTunes. What iPodDisk does is mount iPod as if the file structure was the database itself.


--- End quote ---

While this is basically what our upcoming MTP mode will do, you can already simply browse your ipod and copy the music off.  Rockbox does not use a special folder structure like the Apple firmware, so tools like iPodDisk are unnecessary unless you're using the Apple firmware. 

Chronon:
If you're talking about media that's stored in the iTunes_Control/Music/ directories, then you can easily just boot Apple's firmware and use the product that you're describing for now. 

Actually, I'm not certain that it's necessary to reboot.  I think many programs of this sort just search for an itunesdb in the standard place and parse it to find the names and locations of various songs.  The itunesdb will still be present unless you deleted it since you added the media with iTunes.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page