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ipod :)

Posted Nov 29, 2005 5:21 UTC (Tue) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559)
In reply to: ipod :) by jmorris42
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to music managers

the only reason you need extra software to copy songs to your ipod (or any other player) is to rewrite the songlist database so your player knows about the music.

this would be the same with any player.

once again, there is open source code to write this data to the ipod.

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ipod :)

Posted Nov 29, 2005 7:26 UTC (Tue) by piman (subscriber, #8957) [Link]

No, many (most at this point?) players are smart enough to scan the files themselves and just need the files copied over. No special software required.

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Posted Nov 29, 2005 23:53 UTC (Tue) by omez (subscriber, #6904) [Link]

> this would be the same with any player.

The Neuros machines will rebuild automatically if it can't find the song database on startup. Simply deleting the database after copying songs over is enough to get it squared away.

That said, reading the vorbis comments and reindexing tens of thousands of songs is best left to a beefier CPU/memory/disk arrangement. The positron utility for updating the device, allows you to listen to the fresh tunes the same day.