[clug] Testing the VFAT patch on iPods

[Arjen Lentz]

Hi Ian, Tridge, all,

On 25/07/2009, at 1:23 AM, Ian Munsie wrote:
>> Well, the nano has no way of seeing files on its filesystem unless  
>> its
>> database is updated with them. So I copied the FATTEST directory off
>> to a linux machine and used Rhythmbox to put the mp3 files back on to
>> the iPod. I have no way of knowing what that may have done to the  
>> file
>> names but it played back 81 mp3 files.
>
> I don't have an iPod myself so I may be making things up here, and
> Tridge is of course much more qualified than I to answer this, but the
> use case for putting files on an iPod is almost always going to be to
> play them on said iPod (occasionally I guess someone might use it for
> portable storage, but then the onus is on the computer and not the
> iPod to read the filenames anyway). Because the iPods have that
> database that maps the files to their mangled filenames than that is
> exactly what anyone using the iPod would be doing to get their music
> on there - but to test it I think you need to do that with the patch
> installed to check the mangled files it creates are OK. Unless it
> doesn't create the filenames larger than 8.3 anyway in which case the
> patch will create short filenames and all will be dandy.


All true, but...
Perhaps someone can try (or give Tridge access to) an iPod that has  
been set up to also work as a disk (aka usb "key").
iTunes can do that, dunno if other tools can also.

Then you can talk directly with the iPod as a disk, which (since it's  
done through the iPod firmware) I presume will look and behave the  
same externally as it does to the iPod internally. Then it's easier to  
test different patterns, and *if* anything shows up it's probably  
indicative.


Cheers,
Arjen.
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