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[victornun]

I tried it a while back and gave up, I'm back now and permanently after it made an ipod previously lasting, maybe an hour in continuous playback, actually work again. I mean I've made my batterys charge last 3 days when not listening to music much! that's unheard of! anyway ecstatic bout that but I'me after some tips.

I'd like to scrub all the ipod music really as it is stored retardedly. On my pc I have several playlists, one large music folder and each track in the music folder is in ATLEAST one playlist. I'm still in the process (after ~ a year) of moving my music into the music folder and into playlists at same time. I can drag my playlists into the playlists folder on the ipod, and provided I have the folder structure the same (excluding the drive letter hopefully?), it's supposed to work fine with my setup. Basically, the music folder is already too big for the ipod (30gb video so 5th gen?), and I want to know if anyone uses any good programs that could help me out here, basically all I want is something to parse the playlist files and copy the actual files to clipboard, that'd be all I need.

I can't just thin out the music folder as I'd get gaps in playlists as, like I mentioned earlier, everything is in atleast 1 playlist, probably more. So I'm after something that can take a reduced number of playlists, and grab all the files somehow. I'm no programmer but you can open playlist files with notepad so it shouldn't be too hard to parse them eh?

on second thoughts, maybe something that automatically deletes entries in a playlist with no file where it says there is a file kinda thing would be easier. then i could just copy the music i want to listen to accross, copy all the playlists and run this unknown program, voila.

[Chronon]

There's a program called Amok Playlist Copy listed on the UsefulTools page in the wiki.  It may or may not be helpful to you.  I haven't used it but it claims to sync files based on playlists.

[victornun]

could not for the life of me find this useful tools page in the wiki, anyway amok looks very promising thank you so much. I wasted a fair amount of time trying to come up with the right search string to find something similar

edit: perfect, thank you!

[Chronon]

I'm glad it helped.