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How to get Rock Box to find media on an iPod Video.

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nuraman00:
I have a dual boot iPod Video that can booth both the Apple firmware, and Rock Box.

The Apple Firmware can find my media when I sync with iTunes.  iTunes copies / syncs the media on my iPod.

How can I get Rock Box to find the same media, without creating duplicate copy of the media?

Do I have to export the iTunes playlist to .m3u?  That only creates a new playlist file, right?  It doesn't copy the media again, correct?

If I have to convert the playlist, which of these playlist tools under "Playlist Tools" is recommended?

https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/UsefulTools#Playlist_Tools

Also, if I have to generate a .m3u file for Rock Box, where do I put this playlist file on the iPod so Rock Box can find it?

And do I have to update this .m3u file on Rock Box, everytime the playlist in iTunes is updated?  So after updating the playlist in iTunes, do I then have to generate a new .m3u playlist, and copy it onto the iPod again somewhere so Rock Box can find it?

saratoga:
You can use the database or manually make m3u files. File browser won't work well since the apple firmware gives files random names.

nuraman00:

--- Quote from: saratoga on March 02, 2019, 03:40:04 PM ---You can use the database or manually make m3u files. File browser won't work well since the apple firmware gives files random names.

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Thanks.  The database worked pretty well.  I went to initialize database, and it found all of the media that was on the iPod and that was synced through iTunes.

The only issue I saw was that when I tried to play video files, it didn't play the video on Rock Box, only music.  Why is that?

If I went to the apple firmware, I could play those same video files.

I also have Rock Box on a Sansa Fuze+, so I know it can play video files.

Other than that, this seems to have solved the issue of being able to access media through both Apple firmware, and Rock Box, and only having one copy of the media.

It seems like all I will have to do is update the database, and it will find the updated media that was synced through iTunes.

Hopefully someone can help figure out why Rock Box didn't play those video files, and make that work.

Then this setup of having both firmwares will be great.

saratoga:

--- Quote from: nuraman00 on March 03, 2019, 07:26:12 PM ---The only issue I saw was that when I tried to play video files, it didn't play the video on Rock Box, only music.  Why is that?

--- End quote ---

The two firmwares do not support the same formats.

nuraman00:
4 of the music videos are .mp4 files.  Rock Box supports that, right?

I've played these same .mp4 files on my Sansa Fuze+.

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