On 09/24/2012 04:46 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
On 09/24/2012 02:27 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Sunday, 23. September 2012. 21.22.50 JD wrote:
>> On 09/23/2012 09:10 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>>> I have an old 80GB iPod that has a bunch of music on it that I'd like
>>> to get off.
> Good luck.
>
>>> I've tried to use gtkpod, but the stock export dumps everything into
>>> one directory. That's not very useful.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of a way to dump an iPod to my filesystem with the
>>> format:
>>>
>>> /home/Music/ipod/[artist]/[album]/[track]
>> Is your ipod filesystem mounted on Linux when you plug your ipod
>> into USB?
> No, generically it isn't. iPod (and iPhone, and I suspect other stuff
> from
> Apple) does not allow its filesystem to be visible via USB
> transparently. One
> has to use iTunes or gtkpod or some other program in order to
> communicate with
> the iPod.
>
> Furthermore, even if one manages to mount the iPod filesystem somehow
> (there
> are ways to do that, at least on a jailbroken iPod), it will not help
> the OP.
> Namely, the music files on the iPod filesystem itself are all dumped
> in one
> single big directory, while the artist/album/track structure is being
> maintained in a database.
>
> Thank Apple.
>
> The OP should probably use gtkpod to dump all the music files into a
> single
> directory onto the computer, then copy the appropriate database file
> from the
> iPod, open it and rename all files according to the database entries.
>
> I don't know if there are any tools that might automate that process.
> Windows
> and OSX users use iTunes to "synchronize music libraries" across various
> devices. Linux, however, does not seem to be supported by Apple...
>
> HTH, :-)
> Marko
>
I suppose I'm stating the obvious, but: Why not dump the files into
Windows, with its friendly
ipod environment, and then transfer them over to your Linux box?
--doug