Subj : Re: Bye Bye iPod
To   : Nightfox
From : Boraxman
Date : Sat May 14 2022 10:24:31

  Re: Re: Bye Bye iPod
  By: Nightfox to Boraxman on Fri May 13 2022 08:49 am

 >   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 wha
 > 
 > I used to have an iPod Touch years ago.  I didn't think it was that much of 
 > pain to put music on (and I don't remember having to worry about wiping out 
 > 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 dr
 >  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 M
 > 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 somewh
 > 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 
 > would name the music files based on a hash or something used by the databse 
 > identify them.
 > 
 > Nightfox
 > 

I had heard of people who synced thier collection, or had autosync, and it
synced the blank playlist on their computer with their iPod, thereby making
their iPod blank.

It never happened to me, but it could happen if you set things up the wrong
way.

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