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Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes: Same settings & version, different databases


From: H. Langos
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupod] mktunes: Same settings & version, different databases
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:03:18 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Almost forgot about that.... you can also upload your iTunedDB files 
to podcarve ... http://evil.madrax.de/ipod/

that should give you a quick analysis.

cheers
-henrik

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:20:40AM +0200, H. Langos wrote:
> Hi Nuno,
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 05:01:43PM +0100, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> > "H. Langos" <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > Hi Nuno,
> > >
> > > Just a couple of questions...
> > >
> > > Which OS / distribution do those computers have.
> > 
> > Gentoo GNU/Linux. They are not both up-to-date, though, as I'm afraid
> > some upgrade might have broken this (I'll try do some step-by-step
> > updating today - basicly updates interleaved with mktunes.pl).
> 
> any luck with that?
> 
> > > Could you compare the iTunesDB files that mktunes produced in both
> > > cases? Just a quick "ls -lsa iPod_control/iTunes" to start with.
> > 
> > Yes!
> > 
> > They are exactly the same size:
> > 
> > /mnt/ipod $ ls -la oldtunesdb-bad oldtunesdb-good 
> > -rw------- 1 njsg njsg 659547 Set 13 16:27 oldtunesdb-bad
> > -rw------- 1 njsg njsg 659547 Set 13 16:24 oldtunesdb-good
> > 
> > But they're really different - as these are binary files, I hexdumped -C
> > them, and here is the diff
> > 
> >  $ diff oldtunesdb-good.ascii oldtunesdb-bad.ascii 
> > 4,8c4
> > < 00000030  01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
> > |................|
> > < 00000040  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
> > |................|
> > < 00000050  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  30 69 78 e0 71 77 98 c7  
> > |........0ix.qw..|
> > < 00000060  c6 78 eb 38 99 ae 91 20  36 b0 f4 52 00 00 00 00  |.x.8... 
> > 6..R....|
> > < 00000070  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
> > |................|
> > ---
> > > 00000030  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
> > > |................|
> > 207a204,206
> > > 00001000  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  b0 08 68 01 86 d3 51 01  
> > > |..........h...Q.|
> > > 00001010  3f 79 9d e5 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
> > > |?y..............|
> > > 00001020  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
> > > |................|
> > 
> > I don't know what the changes do, though.
> 
> If you could send me the iTunesDB file I could take a detailed look at them.
> 
> The difference really looks tiny. So it should be easy enough to find out
> whats wrong. And I'll have to get a copy of the ipodlinux wiki. With the
> format description of iTunesDB files.
> 
> Their site is down most of the time and I only get a google cached version
> of somebody's local copy that was also retrieved from google cache...
> 



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