Subj : Re: Bye Bye iPod
To   : Boraxman
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri May 13 2022 08:49:30

  Re: Re: Bye Bye iPod
  By: Boraxman to Arelor on Fri May 13 2022 07:17 pm

 Bo> My wife had an iPod or two, and it was a pain to put music on. Checking
 Bo> the sync setting, to make sure you wouldn't wipe a collection, then the
 Bo> incompatilities between whatever version of iTunes she needed, with what

I used to have an iPod Touch years ago.  I didn't think it was that much of a pain to put music on (and I don't remember having to worry about wiping out my collection).  It was just a matter of dragging music files from the iTunes music list to the device.

 Bo> would urn on her Apple. I bought a device which exposed the internal drive
 Bo> as a USB Mass Storage device, so, so much easier.

I had tried browsing the filesystem of my iPod Touch, and I found that the MP3 files I put on it were copied to strange locations and renamed to something thta looked like hashes or something.  If I had just copied MP3 files somewhere on it, I don't think its internal player software would have seen them.  It seemed that the music syncing scheme between a computer and an iPod had some scheme to keep track of the music files..  I figured the iPods (and also iPhones) may have been using some database to keep track of the music files and would name the music files based on a hash or something used by the databse to identify them.

Nightfox

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