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Using a computer to select tracks for playback on device (iPod 5/Video) via USB

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PlainRamenNoodles:
This may already exist, but all I saw were ways to use a Rockbox Device to control playback on a computer. I want the reverse: using a computer to select a track for playback on the device. It would be more complicated than "Skip Track" and "Volume Up",

I am making an old, wooden, console radio into an audiobook machine that uses NFC tags to select the story. I could just load all the audiobooks onto the Raspi that I'm using as the brain, but I would really like to still be able to take the audiobooks with me. So, I'd like to use a docked iPod as the storage, preferably keeping my position when I stop or take it off the dock.

I see in the manual how I could use the iPod as a filesystem, and play the files through the Raspi, but is there a way for the Raspi to communicate to the iPod that it wants the iPod to play a certain track, preferably picking up at the latest bookmark for that track? Does not need to be a GUI, command-line is fine.

Bilgus:
Pick your song on the raspi and manually create the resume info for the track (see ./rockbox/.resume.cfg) and write it to the ipod then when rockbox resumes it'll pick up your track and current track pos

you could also do it with a whole playlist...

As far as two way communication you'd have to create something maybe the (deprecated) alpine headunit plugin could work for some ideas but nothing ready made..

PlainRamenNoodles:
Wouldn't really need two way communication, as I only want to play music from the iPod, using the raspi as a remote of sorts.Thank you!

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