Looking for a way to get mp3s off an ipod

[Doug]

On 09/24/2012 04:46 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
> On 09/24/2012 02:27 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>> On Sunday, 23. September 2012. 21.22.50 JD wrote:
>>> On 09/23/2012 09:10 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
>>>> I have an old 80GB iPod that has a bunch of music on it that I'd like
>>>> to get off.
>> Good luck.
>>
>>>> I've tried to use gtkpod, but the stock export dumps everything into
>>>> one directory. That's not very useful.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know of a way to dump an iPod to my filesystem with the
>>>> format:
>>>>
>>>> /home/Music/ipod/[artist]/[album]/[track]
>>> Is your ipod filesystem mounted on Linux when you plug your ipod 
>>> into USB?
>> No, generically it isn't. iPod (and iPhone, and I suspect other stuff 
>> from
>> Apple) does not allow its filesystem to be visible via USB 
>> transparently. One
>> has to use iTunes or gtkpod or some other program in order to 
>> communicate with
>> the iPod.
>>
>> Furthermore, even if one manages to mount the iPod filesystem somehow 
>> (there
>> are ways to do that, at least on a jailbroken iPod), it will not help 
>> the OP.
>> Namely, the music files on the iPod filesystem itself are all dumped 
>> in one
>> single big directory, while the artist/album/track structure is being
>> maintained in a database.
>>
>> Thank Apple.
>>
>> The OP should probably use gtkpod to dump all the music files into a 
>> single
>> directory onto the computer, then copy the appropriate database file 
>> from the
>> iPod, open it and rename all files according to the database entries.
>>
>> I don't know if there are any tools that might automate that process. 
>> Windows
>> and OSX users use iTunes to "synchronize music libraries" across various
>> devices. Linux, however, does not seem to be supported by Apple...
>>
>> HTH, :-)
>> Marko
>>
I suppose I'm stating the obvious, but:  Why not dump the files into 
Windows, with its friendly
ipod environment, and then transfer them over to your Linux box?
--doug