all posts in the 'ipod' category


how to make ipod play more random

I always listen to my ipod on random shuffling by song not albums. Although I have this set I have many songs I never seem to hear in most if not all playlists. On the other hand I have songs that I am constantly hearing making me wish the play order was […]

creating smart playlists

to my knowledge you cannot create a smart playlist with iTunes SDK. This seems wierd that you can create other playlists but you can’t create a smart playlist. If anyone knows how to do this it would really be appreciated. Please let me know.

ipod song and movie exporter

I have just released my little ipod software app to help people get songs and movies off of their ipod.  You can check it out here www.itunessdk.com/xport .  Of course if you find problems or have questions let me know.   Hope this helps some people.  It is to be used with itunes.  All you […]

Flash Memory as low as $25 for 16GB

I don’t think apple pays much more for the manufacturing of their ipods.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/51498.html

itunes sdk examples

So How do you create playlists in iTunes or add songs to a specific playlist? How do you add playlists to an ipod or even songs to it? Hopefully these code snippets will help show how to do just that. This should show you also how to add songs to any playlist […]

ipod or some grandma’s cookies ?

So I read this article about selling ipods in vending machines and thought I should try to convince my work to get one of these new vending machines. “Hey can i borrow a dime, I’d like to get me one of the chocolate black ipods. Please…I’m really pretty hungry for some movies and […]

itunesdb library

I have written a library in c# (.NET 2.0) . It allows you to get any songs off your ipod. Its usage is pretty simple.
using com.itunessdk.ipod.DB;
com.itunessdk.ipod.DB.Manager manager = new Manager();
MHITList songList = manager.GetSongs(@”F:\iPod_Control\iTunes\iTunesDB”);
foreach (MHIT song in songList)
{
Console.WriteLine
(
song.ARTIST + ” : ” + song.ALBUM ” : ” + song.LOCATION
);
}
This should allow to make […]

say goodbye to free ipods from freepay-gratis-networks

So I have been getting a little worried hearing about all the news about gratis networks sites starting to get sued because they were selling everyones email addresses. I have read 5 articles in the last day or so about it. I am getting so close to my third free 60G video ipod. […]

ipod sync settings - stop songs from being erased

Over the months I have completed a fair number of the get a free ipod schemes that are out there. People at work, school, friends etc, constantly ask how they make it so their ipod does not sync with their itunes library automatically. For those of you who feel stupid because you can’t […]

ipod / itunes library Duplicate Song Remover

I was filling up my computer lately with songs from various different ipods I have so fast that I wrote this little program to delete the duplicates. It lets you see the duplicates and choose which ones you want to delete or not on your ipod or iTunes. I wrote it in C# […]

iTunesDB

In my travails to create a library for reading the itunesdb file on ipods, i have come across some very good resources. I am always combing for better ideas, source code, examples etc. Here are the resources I have found most helpful in writing this library that is still maturing.
http://ipodlinux.org/ITunesDB
Learning the iTunesDB File Format