Re: [Bug-gnupod] Synchronizing a directory to an ipod

[jack craig]

say ed,

let me know if you find out more on this topic.

if no one is doing it, i might know a way.

more, it sounds like a fun little app to write.

thx, jackc...

On 03/15/2010 04:09 AM, Edouard Lafargue wrote:

 Hi,

I have been trying for some time to achieve the following: I would
like to keep my iPod in sync with a 'master' music repository which I
keep on a (Linux) server at home. The idea is very simple: whenever I
dock my Ipod on this server, it should scan both the ipod and the
music repository on the server, delete any song which are present on
the iPod and not on the repository, and add any song present on the
repo and not on the iPod, then eject the iPod: no human intervention
needed at all, no iTunes, etc...

So far I have not been able to achieve this with reliable results:
maybe I am missing something altogether with the gnupod utilities? As
far as I can tell, there is no simple way to do this, am I wrong ? I
was under the impression this scenario should be fairly common, how do
other gnupod users achieve this?

At the moment, using the Audio::Scan perl library, I can get very good
MP3/M4A tag scanning, and I can reliably compare my repo and my iPod
using a perl script, i.e. I can identify whether a song is already
present on the iPod, whether it should be deleted or added, and the
only thing I miss is a way to add/remove songs from the GnupodDB
directly from my perl script, any hints?

There is an old Mac::iPod:GNUpod package around, which seems to be
slightly outdated and does not work very well on recent iPods. Ideally
I would rather use the GNUPod packages directly, rather than an
intermediate package?

Thanks for your help,

Ed


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