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

[chris.com]

Hi Ed,

I've managed something like what you're trying to do with my iPod.

Mine is a 2nd generation iPod shuffle and I wanted to automagically :
* delete any played or skipped song from the iPod
* add (random) new songs until the iPod was full again
when plugged in a Linux system.

I programmed udev to detect the plugging in,
whereupon the iPod gets mounted
and then synced it with "tunes2pod -force".
Next I delete the skipped and played songs
and fill it with fresh songs
In the end I call mktunes and unmount the iPod
Voila ready to unplug

If you know the 2nd generation iPod shuffle you'll have noticed that the 
current gnuPod version doesn't sync the iPod because the iTunesStats 
file isn't handled.
Furthermore the gnupod_search function doesn't have playcount and 
skipcount options.
So I wrote a patch for that.

My little system works quite well.
If this is like what you're trying to do and you need some help I might 
be able to help you.

I will post my patch soon because it might be useful to others but I 
have to clean it up a bit first

        Chris





Le 15/03/2010 12:09, Edouard Lafargue a écrit :
>   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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