elmegil's Journal: stupid ipod questions

I was told that moving between PC & Mac was no trouble. So that I could set up my wife's playlists as part of the surprise, I hooked it up to my (windows) laptop first.

As it turns out, it appears that this made it "optimized for windows", and while she can see it on her mac, it doesn't want to update (firmware update, songs haven't been a trouble) from the mac. My laptop is not convenient, because I almost never boot the windows partition on it.

Only solution we've found is "reformat". Which loses my lovingly crafted playlists, because I haven't yet found a utility to import the playlist from the iPod to the Mac.

Now, I can export my playlists on my laptop, to a text file, but it has hard paths in it. This leaves me pretty skeptical that I will be able to use these playlists on the mac without lots of dinking with them. Yes, I know, I have perl on the mac, and it's not a terribly difficult thing, unless of course there's some stupid hitch like a checksum or something else.

So the question for the assembled geniuses (hi Sam! :-)) is whether I need to do anything special to import the playlists on her mac. I already have imported the music with yamipod or whatever that is. A lot of it started on hers anyway. But the playlists were kind of the point of doing anything with it beforehand, and yamipod did not deal with that. Thanks for any help or suggestions :-)

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Thanks, late is better than never, esp in the absence of other answers :-)

Yeah, I used Yami-Pod (aka Yam-iPod, I dunno), and that got the files imported to her mac, but for MacOS I believe it did not deal with playlists. I will go double check the docs.

I vaguely recall that it does import them somehow onto Windows, so if you were re-importing to the same system it would probably be no big deal to recreate them.

If I ever get a script written that will do any kind of arbitrary mapping from one OS to the ot

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Hm. I was looking at that file and put off by the hard coded paths (on the winders version anyway), which is what led me to perl. If there's some way to cross reference by some ID that might be system-independant, that would be fantastic.

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Exactly, that's the perl approach; I spose that's not entirely clear. It's just the time to work out how the two different formats are the same/differ and what's important about them.

And I hope to god I can do "tests" where I change the file and if it mucks things up put the original back and be happy.

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Hm, I'm thinking that only works if your library is identical from one system to the other. Not the case in this case. I actually pulled some of her music, and a lot of stuff from CD to preload her iPod. But she has lots in iTunes that I didn't copy over, and I didn't think to copy her whole iTunes folder to my laptop first (hindsight says that woulda been the thing to do). I'll check out some of the referenced links though, might be some nugget in there...