Re: address@hidden: Re: [Bug-gnupod] Support for 4th gen iPod Shuffle]

[H. Langos]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:39:57AM +0200, H. Langos wrote:
> 
> The database looks much more like the iTunesDB but it shows that it is
> big-endian. Apparently they put the headers strings in 32bit integers and
> saved them in reversed byte order. just look at the start...
>  "bdhs" ... clearly stands for "shdb" .. "shuffle database"
>  "hths" ... shuffle t? header?

Actually that inverting of the order is little endian ... damn I need
to get some sleep. Sorry for the noise..

> 
> if it doesn't play any music, there is a checksum/hash somewhere over the 
> whole
> file and we might need to find out a) where it is storred and b) if it is the 
> old,
> known method or the new one used by the ipod touch 2.x and iphone 3g.

Took another look at it .. no high entropy fields .. at least nothing that
looks like a serious hash value.

-henrik