[TriLUG] Requesting iPods to Attend on Thursday!

Aaron Bockover abockover.trilug at aaronbock.net
Mon Jun 6 10:29:42 EDT 2005


That would be excellent and much appreciated. I smacked myself after
making that post -- the first gens don't even have USB, not sure about
the second, so I was considering purchasing a firewire card.

Thanks a lot!
--Aaron


On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 10:16 -0400, David McDowell wrote:
> Want me to bring my pcmcia firewire card?  it has 3 400mbit ports on
> it.  :)  If I can get in touch with my Dad before Thursday, he has a
> gen 2 iPod he no longer uses (to my knowledge).
> 
> David McD
> 
> 
> On 6/5/05, Aaron Bockover <abockover.trilug at aaronbock.net> wrote:
> > I am working on adding native iPod support to gnome-volume-manager, and
> > also full iPod support to Sonance [http://sonance.aaronbock.net]. I am
> > the lead developer of Sonance.
> > 
> > I currently have most of the lower level device handling code written,
> > and am looking for some iPod file system snapshots for testing. I
> > currently have snapshots (taken from devices that I own) for:
> > 
> > "Regular" iPod (4th Generation)
> > "Regular" iPod (3rd Generation)
> > iPod Photo
> > iPod Shuffle
> > 
> > I am looking for older devices (1st and 2nd generations) that I can
> > connect to my laptop and rip a snapshot of the file system, however,
> > I'll gladly rip any iPod.
> > 
> > I would *NOT* be ripping the actual music stored on the iPod, just the
> > control, device, and database information. I have written a shell script
> > that will allow a quick rip. Ripping would mean I will have a copy of
> > your database, and could thus see the contents of your iPod - but I
> > won't rip the actual audio files referenced by the database (that would
> > take quite a while!).
> > 
> > I am simply looking to test for any possible discrepancies in various
> > models and generations.
> > 
> > If you have an iPod, of any kind, I would greatly appreciate you
> > bringing it to the meeting on Thursday, and I'll quickly rip a snapshot
> > before or after the meeting. Your generosity will help enhance the
> > quality of upcoming advances in the multimedia experience for Linux.
> > 
> > Also, I only have cables for 4th generation iPods. If you have an older
> > iPod, please bring the USB cable! (No firewire please... the laptop
> > doesn't have a firewire port :-/)
> > 
> > Many, Many Thanks!
> > 
> > Best,
> > Aaron
> > 
> > 
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