Filesystemplugin for the Total-Commander 5.51 or newer.

This is a plugin to access the music stored on an Apple iPod. It reads the iTunesDB and provides all songs in a directory structure like "{artist}/{album}/{<format>.mp3}" or "{genre}/{<format>.mp3}". You can copy all songs from an iPod with a well formated filename to your harddisc.

To upload songs to your iPod simply copy them into any directory of the plugin.

To change an artist or an album of a group of songs rename the folder they're in. It is also possible to change the the filename which will be seperated using the mask from the .ini.

Moving a song into the folder of a genre/composer will change the genre/composer.

Deleting a song will delete the song from the iPod; except for playlists. Here the song is only removed from the playlist.

Copying a song from a non-playlist-folder (on the iPod) to a playlist-folder will add the song to the playlist.

For new playlists/artists/albums you have to create a directory in which you can move/copy songs.

If you change the "ipod-root" or the "languagefile" you have to restart TC!!

languagefile=<c:\path\to\language_<guage>.lan>
ipod-root=<iPod-Drive with trailing '\' i.e. "H:\">
show_master-playlist={no|yes} (Warning: Changing the Master-Playlist without knowing what you're doing results in a faulty song-overview in the iPod!!)
format_artist=<format-string without extension ".mp3">
format_artist_album=<format-string without extension ".mp3">
format_album=<format-string without extension ".mp3">
format_title=<format-string without extension ".mp3">
format_genre=<format-string without extension ".mp3">
format_composer=<format-string without extension ".mp3">
format_playlist=<format-string without extension ".mp3">

Format (default: "%i - %a - %n - %t"):

%i

artist

%a

album

%t

title

%n

tracknumber (2 digits)

%N

tracks count (2 digits)

%c

composer

%g

genre

%y

Year

%p

position in current playlist (2 digits)

%P

position in current playlist (4 digits)

%%

"%"

This plugin is covert by the GNU General Public License (GPL). This is an open-source license that garanties that this software will stay free (free in the sence of freedom).
The iTunesDB-code is a modified version from the open-source project GTKPod and stands under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
Also excluded from the GPL are some Microsoft libraries against which the plugin is staticly linked.

languages and binary (~180K, for normal users)
plugin-source (~45K, for developer)
id3lib-source (~1.6M, for developer)

For questions about the languagefiles the contact persons are the translaters themself. A contact-adress should be found at the beginning of each languagefile.

I, the author, can be reached over the Contact-Page.

There is also a thread in the TC's messageboard. Please look at first here if your problem is already discussed.