My patch is not needed anymore as it went to amarok's source directly - hurray. From next amarok's release it will have iPod shuffle support included.

iPod shuffle support for amaroK

Here you can find my latest patch to support iPod shuffle support for amaroK (svn version):
iPod shuffle patch

It currently does:

• Writes the "iTunesSD" file that is needed for iPod shuffle
• Writes the "iTunesDB" file in a newer format (the one used by iTunes 4.9). But this is not fully completed. But all iPods should work with this format (only tested with iPod shuffle yet)
• Creates the directories where the music files are stored (if needed)

Future

• The size of the music files that is to be transfered is not shown
• The size of the music files on the iPod is not shown
• No files can be deleted from the transfer list
• The transfer list is empty after amaroK is restarted
• Check for iTunesDB database consitency
• The media browser may be the wrong place to show the whole content of an iPod (I'd say it should be in the main windows, but this gets out of my scope)
• ...
• Fix bugs in my patch - currently I know the iTunes database is not 100% correct (podcats missing)

Changelog

28.08.2007

Update for current SVN amarok

16.08.2007

Databease format updated. It is now "accepted" by iTunes (formerly iTunes wanted to reinitialize the iPod)

Build instructions

• Copy the patch file (ipod_shuffle_xx.x.2005.diff) to the directory "amarok"
• Change to the directory "amarok"
• In this directory type "patch < ipod_shuffle_xx.x.2005.diff"

Acknowledge

The information for th new database format is from iPodLinux Project. Thanks for your work guys!

Ipodslave

I also hacked ipodslave to work with the iPod and konqueror. I only have the whole source code: ipodslave for iPod shuffle. Please keep in mind, that this code is not as advanced as the one for the amaroK support.

Feedback

If you have any feedback for my patch(es), just leave me a node ggens@schwann.at