hey-
i use Rockbox about 90% of the time but will regress to iPod when battery life really matters so i want the iTunes/iPod database.

at present, i'll:
a) load the music w/ iTunes,
b) read the iTunes db and save it as a big mutha playlist (8000 songs) using Foobar foo_dop,
d) use a text editor to open the playlist and remove the drive letter, 'x:', from the playlist to make it relative vs absolute.
c) use MP3Tag to read the playlist & save individual albums as playlists, 'artist_title.m3u'. (MP3Tag works better for this then Foobar.)


when using Rockbox, i'll use the playlists, linked to the 'ipod_control/music' files.
works great tho the process is a little chunky.
any ideas about streamlining it all, maybe just using Foobar?

You can use Rockbox's builtin Database feature.

Here's what I do.

Copy over the files to the iPod using Windows Explorer. This allows me to keep the folder structure (artist/album) so I can play albums by just "playing" the folder with Rockbox.

Using foo_dop I then "Rewrite iPod database" - I can then use both the iPod and Rockbox software in harmony. This is also the recommended approach over at rockbox.org.

Alternatively, review musicmusic's wiki at http://yuo.be/wiki/dop:start#how_do_i_stor...ctory_structure

Does this help?

c0utta : your approach is good but not really usable due to the path length limit of the ipod DB. In my opinion the best idea is to use the database feature of rockbox.

concur. i tried the foo-dop db feature back then and ran into issues.
i'm trying database now but i plugged in the pod w/ the Menu key pressed to keep it from mounting but it keeps mounting after a few seconds <sigh>