Re: [OT?] recreating lost iPod database

From: Nori Heikkinen (nori_at_sccs.swarthmore.edu)
Date: 11/11/04

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To: Jules Dubois <3f88o9g02@sneakemail.com>

    on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:08:03PM -0700, Jules Dubois insinuated:
    > On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:01:36 -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
    >
    > > i managed to write the blank database that gtkpod was displaying to my
    > > iPod -- at least, that's what i think has happened.
    >
    > What is the output of 'ls -l ~/.gtkpod`?
    [...]
    > > any ideas on where to go from here?
    >
    > Is section 5.6, "Restore your iPod" in the gtpod documentation any help?
    >
    > > i'd really like to recover this data, if at all possible!
    >
    > I know what you mean.

    thanks a lot for your help ... i just ended up restoring the thing, as
    i was too impatient to screw around with getting things back the best
    way and just wanted my iPod functional again the fastest way.

    i tried using ephpod on a windows machine to restore the database, but
    when i did, it would prompt me for each mp3 as it was stored in the
    iPod filesystem (something like
    /media/ipod/iPod_Control/Music/f00/gtkpod00312.mp3, at least under
    linux) and ask me for a name.

    from all of this poking around, it looks like the id3 tags of the mp3s
    i'm putting on the 'pod are stripped and stored in a database. when
    this database goes, the mp3s themselves appear to have no info, so
    the thing is useless.

    does anyone know if this is off-base? i can't find a reasonable
    explanation of how the iPod's directory structure and database work,
    which is frustrating. but then, that's what i get for not buying
    open-source ... oh well -- it's so pretty! ;)

    thanks again,

    </nori> 

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