Comments on: iPod Shuffle without iTunes

By: lurqer

lurqer — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:59:48 +0000

I would like to thank Martin Fiedler for his program and Ohad Eder-Pressman for his conversion to an exe. Also I thank the commenters here who have contributed to my understanding.

If you run rebuild_db in a command prompt with a -h option the result is:

V:\>rebuild_db\rebuild_db -h
Usage: rebuild_db\rebuild_db [OPTION]… [DIRECTORY]…
Rebuild iPod shuffle database.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-h, –help display this help text
-i, –interactive prompt before browsing each directory
-v, –volume=VOL set playback volume to a value between 0 and 38
-s, –nosmart do not use smart shuffle
-n, –nochdir do not change directory to this scripts directory first
-r, –root go to the root directory of the drive containing the script/executable
-l, –nolog do not create a log file
-L, –logfile set log file name
Must be called from the iPod’s root directory. By default, the whole iPod is searched for playable files, unless at least one DIRECTORY is specified.

Note that each option has two methods of invocation. The long version must be preceded by two dashes while the short version has only a single dash before one character. This explains the problem some were having.

Clearly the directory argument offers some interesting possibilities.

Thanks again!

By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:26:12 +0000

I have tried it, and I can tell you rebuild_db.py does NOT work on the 3rd gen shuffle. I think the voice over stuff messes it up.

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:27:46 +0000

Pimp.
I had to use the -r instead of -root modification as well.

By: nod

nod — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:38:36 +0000

I would also like to know if rebuild_db works with 3rd generation iPod Shuffle.

By: Michiel

Michiel — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:40:40 +0000

Does anyone know whether the rebuild_db script works with the 3rd generation 4gb ipod shuffle? Thanks…

By: Jonesy

Jonesy — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:25:08 +0000

Thanks for this, worked superbly though I had the same problem as lbot above and had to manually type in the bat file entry plus change -root to -r
I also had to change the -nolog to -n (with -nolog the exe was parsing -o as well as -n)

Just in case anybody is as stupid as me – you also have to copy the zip file inside the distribution zip file into \rebuild_db

By: lbot

lbot — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:50:16 +0000

1 found two bugs i had to fix. but now it works great. thanks 8 )

1. don’t cut and past “rebuild_db\rebuild_db.exe –root –nolog” in to notepad unless you change the font. if you look at the output from the batch you will see that the “-” get miss interpret with this font. weird i know but the – turn into a u with a accent over it.
2. don’t use the full -root it reads the -r and then didnot know what to do with the oot. just use the -r

you may not find this, but if you get stuck give them a try and see if it helps.

By: chanapong

chanapong — Sun, 04 May 2008 08:24:00 +0000

1GB ipod shuffle review video detail at ipod inside blog

By: Bambang K / Indonesia

Bambang K / Indonesia — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:56:00 +0000

From the deepest down inside mine ; I thank God I found yr blog.
Now I can enjoy my ipod I bought for my daughters.
SInce the beginning I tried to install itunes as its guidance. Somehow, I can’t run the itunes.
Finally I dont need to use itunes that acctually I dont need it in my computer.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:03:00 +0000

Hey I don’t know if anyone is still monitoring this thread, but I’m a bit confused by the –root part. Any help would be appreciated (eggses@hotmail.com)