iPod

[Richard Wilson]

Can this be loaded directly into b2?

[Colum McAndrew]

The easiest way is to import the contents of your iTunes music folder. See this page for details 

https://www.brennan.co.uk/itemcontent.php/content/help

[PMB]

Hi Fishe...,

I found 3rd party software that allowed me to copy (dump) the iPod music to my laptop. I then added the music to iTunes and from there to a USB HDD and then to the B2.

My iPod was a fairly old one (so I don't know if that was the reason) and when I look at the copied music files the tracks were all jumbled up and the titles were shown as tags (I think). Adding the files to iTunes sorted the tracks into their respective albums and showed the titles.

Paul

Brennan Support.

[Mark Fishman]

The iPod (like iTunes) uses a database to keep track of music. The database is populated from the tags. On the iPod classic, though, for reasons known only to Apple, the files are also renamed to have short names of mixed letters and numbers, and (seemingly at random) "sorted" into folders with names like "F001", "F002", and so on. Fortunately they retain their tags, and extensions (.mp3, m4a, etc.). When importing those files into iTunes, they are again renamed (by iTunes) to have names based on the "title" tag, truncated to around 30 characters, and placed in folders named according to the "artist" and "album" tags.

An iPod "classic" can be seen by a computer as an external drive; an iPod Touch has so much computing power of its own in between the storage and the port that it can't e used that way. But there is some software that allows you to copy stuff off, at least for older versions of iOS. iTunes only lets you copy off stuff you bought from Apple directly on the iPod.

-- m.

[Daniel Taylor]

I can see why so many people are moving away from iPods and iTunes.

[Mark Fishman]

Well, what you see when using an iPod or iTunes are the tags, so the artist, album, track title, composer, genre, and other useful info are all visible. You don't see, or have to know, the file names, and the filenames can be short because the information needed to search and sort is all in the tags. The tags are read at the time you load the music, the database is populated, and the only lag comes when you have to re-read or load the database (on a computer, that happens when you open iTunes; on aniPod, it happens when you reboot, which is very rare).

So there's a fundamental difference between how a Brennan device works, and how an Apple device works. Tags are more flexible and thus easier to USE; filenames are more straightforward and thus easier to LEARN.