Looking for a way to get mp3s off an ipod

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 14:03 -0400, Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:27:03PM -0700, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> You can access the files on an iPod as a USB drive. I do so on my system
> (F17, Gnome, iPod 160GB) without an issue.

Yes, but the filenames are random character strings unrelated to the
original titles except via a database. You need a library that
understands the database format in order to make sense of it.

poc