From: Tiago Macedo <tmacedo@...>
Date: 2007-12-02T03:10:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Identifying a volume as being an iPod

An iPod (at least when formatted in FAT32 will contain an "iPod_Control" 
folder on the root.

You can also check the USB device ids:
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 05ac:1261 Apple Computer, Inc.
(this is an 80GB Classic Silver)

or just build a wrapper for libgpod (I don't it supports drm'ed tracks 
though)

Tiago Macedo

John Joyce wrote:
> Does anybody know how to identify a mounted volume as being an iPod ?
> Or even more generally useful, is there a lib or gem to help identify 
> the type of volume or disk ?
> 
> I'm currently working on a prog to help transfer songs from your iPod to 
> an authorized iTunes account.
> iTunes itself makes it easy to transfer "purchased songs", that is, 
> songs that are identified as purchased through iTunes, but fails to 
> offer an easy method to transfer songs that you did not buy through 
> iTunes, such as tracks you ripped from a CD.
> 
> Opening the directories that hold the music on an iPod is dead simple, 
> even opening them as Finder windows on OS X, but the two areas that are 
> stopping me know are:
> 1-- making an automated identification of the iPod
> 2-- actually moving the songs to the iTunes library.
> 
> The second one is something I'm currently learning AppleScript in order 
> to make it feasible, perhaps with the rubyOSA gem.
> Ideally, I would like to make it cross platform, but I don't have any 
> Windows, so it would be up to somebody else to add that later.
> 
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