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iTunes for Rockbox music Management?

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knight4led:
Well technically you can view files added by iTunes in the filetree view if you change your view options to View All. However good luck making sense of them since iTunes obscures file paths and names. They are there though, just look in the iPod_Control folder.

I believe what the previous poster was saying is that he organizes the files himself for filetree view, but also builds a database. There are benefits to both systems. I use both frequently.

bascule:

--- Quote from: meesterbrian on February 01, 2007, 03:37:22 PM ---I assume you mean on the ipod you can switch between file tree browse method and database method.

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--- Quote from: knight4led on February 01, 2007, 03:47:16 PM ---I believe what the previous poster was saying is that he organizes the files himself for filetree view, but also builds a database. There are benefits to both systems. I use both frequently.

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Exactly what I was trying to say...

Flid:
A very minor point, but you "could" use Rockbox menu to display the current time via the "status bar" in WPS by default. This is what you will most likely see at the top of the screen in file browser mode, and can be displayed in the WPS. However, most themes cfg files overwrite this option (ie. disable status bar), so that you can have a graphical display of battery, shuffle etc icons instead.

Menu > General Settings > Display > Status/ScrollBar > Status Bar > ...

Most of the themes from the gallery will show time anyway, so just use one of them.

ell1ps1s:

--- Quote from: Brasil on February 01, 2007, 01:51:57 PM ---No, the playlists you created on iTunes/iPod are not compatible to Rockbox. You can try a limited trick to this http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=8348.msg65046#msg65046

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This workaround assumes that you don't want to use the 'Composer' field for its intended purpose. (And if that's not a problem, it should work fine.)

If you're on a Mac, it's not too difficult to make an AppleScript to extract playlists from the iTunes database into .m3u8 files, but this technology isn't available in iTunes for Windows; I don't know if there's an equivalent solution for Windows users.

saratoga:
Theres GPLed software out there for reading the ipod database.  Maybe someone will port it to rockbox so that the database can read iTunes files.   IMO this hasn't happened because most developers don't use itunes, but maybe someday.

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