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iPod: Where has all the Music gone ?
E-mail message dated Thursday, November 29, 2001, at 09:57 Joe F.. wrote:
- "I've been playing with my new iPod but haven't figured out how to load tunes from the iPod into iTunes. It seems that iTunes is the dominant source, but only the iTunes that's set up with iPod. If I were to manually load songs onto my iPod from another machine, I can't load them into main iTunes file on the main computer with iTunes. Make sense? Thanks for any info anyone might have."
That's a 'Feature' in Apple-speak. Copyright protection. Preventing folks from re-creating a peer-to-peer network for sharing stolen music MP3's by running around town with KGB iPods (we'd call that 'Sneaker-net' in the old days, maybe 'Nike-ster' today :-)
But, if you're an OS X user all is not lost. You can crawl into the innards of your iPod from the terminal (the UNIX CLI (Command Line Interface) or Shell) and find those HIDDEN MP3 files:
This information is presented in the nature of academic interest or/and data protection (read backup) only, I support Apple in their efforts to prevent theft of copyrighted materials.
- tcsh% cd '/Volumes/YourName iPod/'
- tcsh% ls
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- AppleShare PDS* System Folder/ iPod/
- Applications/ SystemFolderX/ iPod_Control/
- Applications (Mac OS 9)/ Temporary Items/ mach@
- BMW Films/ TheFindByContentFolder/ mach_kernel
- Desktop DB TheVolumeSettingsFolder/ private/
- Desktop DF Trash/ sbin/
- Desktop Folder/ bin/ tmp@
- Icon? dev/ usr/
- QTVR/ etc@ var@
- System/ iPC@
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- [Note that 'iPod_Control' won't show up in any Finder Window near you...]
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- tcsh% cd iPod_Control
- tcsh% ls
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- Device/ Icon? Music/ iTunes/
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- tcsh% ls Device
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- Preferences* SysInfo
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- tcsh% cat Device/SysInfo
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- pszBoardHwName: P68 PVT1
- pszSerialNumber: U21455Z0ZZ00
- pu8FirewireGuid: 0x000032BB
- buildID: 0x01008000 (1.0)
- boardHwRev: 0x41414141 (65.4.1 65)
- bootLoaderImageRev: 0x00010000 (0.0.1 0)
- diskModeImageRev: 0x00000000 (0.0 0)
- diagImageRev: 0x00000000 (0.0 0)
- osImageRev: 0x00000000 (0.0 0)
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- tcsh% ls iTunes
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- DeviceInfo* iTunesDB* iTunesPlaylists*
- iTunesControl* iTunesEQPresets* iTunesPrefs*
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- tcsh% ls Music
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- F00/ F02/ F04/ F06/ F08/ F10/ F12/ F14/ F16/ F18/
- F01/ F03/ F05/ F07/ F09/ F11/ F13/ F15/ F17/ F19/
[Now here is the ugly part - your iTunes organized by artist or album MP3s are now scattered across those Music/F?? directories. This means if you have multiple copies of a tune, they end up in different directories, and you don't know which artist they came from.]
- tcsh% ls Music/*/*Santa*
- Music/F01/Santa Baby.mp3*
- Music/F02/Santa Claus Is Coming to To.mp3*
- Music/F03/Here Comes Santa Claus.mp3*
- Music/F03/Please Let Me Be Your Santa.mp3*
- Music/F04/_Zat You_ Santa Claus_.mp3*
- Music/F05/I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa C.mp3*
- Music/F06/Boogie Woogie Santa Claus _.mp3*
- Music/F08/Back Door Santa.mp3*
- Music/F09/Santa Claus Wants Some Lovi.mp3*
- Music/F09/Santa Claus is Coming to To.mp3*
- Music/F11/Santa Claus is Coming to To.mp3*
- Music/F12/Santa Claus Is Comin_ To To.mp3*
- Music/F12/Santa Claus _ Little Charli.mp3*
- Music/F14/I_m Your Santa _ Lil_ Ed _.mp3*
- Music/F15/I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa C.mp3*
- Music/F18/Santa Claus Is Comin_ To To.mp3*
So the short answer is if you want to you can copy any given MP3 to a new place as in:
- tcsh% cp '/Volumes/Your Name iPod/iPod_Control/Music/F08/Santa Baby.mp3' \
- '/Network/Shared/iTunes/iTunes Music/Stolen Christmas Music/Madonna/'
(presuming the 'Madonna' directory/folder exists)
Or you could create a new artist-level directory/folder in your iTunes Music dir
- tcsh% mkdir '/Network/Shared/iTunes/iTunes Music/Stuff from My iPod/'
and copy everything up, without losing multiple copies of "'Round Midnight" , or overwriting Monk's "Bye-bye Blackbird' with Rickie Lee Jone's or overwriting John Lee Hooker's "Don't Look Back' with the Fine Young Cannibals version as would happen if you copied all the MP3s into one new directory/folder):
- tcsh% (cd '/Volumes/Your Name iPod/iPod_Control/Music' ; tar cf - . ) | \
- (cd '/Network/Shared/iTunes/iTunes Music/Stuff from My iPod/'; tar xfBp -)
and copy the whole Music Library up to the 'Stuff from my iPod' directory/folder.
And my recommended tune for this Christmas season, is Arlo Gutherie's The Pause of Mr. Clause (with the full intro)
Date Created: Fri Nov 30, 2001 12:16:31 PM US/Eastern |
