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saratoga:

--- Quote from: Voronwe on July 19, 2011, 04:27:02 AM ---Maybe it's my angrish, but it's exactly what I tried to ask before, I thought that banshee or rhythmbox would be able to edit the rockbox database file (Banshee recognize my iPod as a "Rockbox device"), but they don't (now I know :P ) because there's no program outside of rockbox that's able to access the database. Thank you very much for your replies. ;)

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To be clear, editing the files on the player and creating playlists has nothing to do with the rockbox database.

gbl08ma:

--- Quote from: saratoga on July 19, 2011, 09:12:13 AM ---To be clear, editing the files on the player and creating playlists has nothing to do with the rockbox database.

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...unlike what happens with the original firmware of iPods, where everything is stored on the database and managed by iTunes (or something that emulates iTunes, such as Banshee or Rhythmbox).

On Rockbox, the database is part of the software but it isn't essential to the work of Rockbox, and you could even install Rockbox and leave the database not initialized for years, that Rockbox would work perfectly, except the parts that need the database to work (the database view itself and PictureFlow).
On Rockbox, music and playlist files are real files on disk, like on a USB thumb drive, not a pseudo-database-filesystem Apple invented.

(and since you appear to be using Banshee to synchronize music, have you noticed that with Rockbox you can use the file browser directly and put music or playlists anywhere on the iPod, copying the music files directly? no iTunes/Banshee/whatever is needed, however you can use them if you want)

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