Sharpley.org.uk

KDE KIO Ipod Slave

About

Ipodslave is a project started by Michael Schulze for editing the contents of your iPod through the most natural way possible. The File browser. Songs can be viewed in the traditional Artists/Album/Song much like you would expect to find them in an organised system, even though they are stored in a far more obfuscated format on disk. (Stupid Apple). I have ported the project so that it runs under the latest QT4/KDE4 environment.

What Works

• Viewing the songs
• Copying the songs on to other media
• Viewing the statistics page

What doesn't work

• The compiler output is "verbose" to say the least
• It uses some deprecated QT3 functions, mostly to do with QLists.
• Clicking playlists causes a crash
• Adding new files currently results in a message saying ID3 messages are non-existant. I plan to change the tagging library to taglib to be inline with more of kdemultimedia
• Apparently doesn't seem to compile under 64bit architectures
• Some synchronisation is done via webpages. This isn't a good approach with Dolphin being the new manager

Can I help?

Please do!. I'm not planning on being a project maintainer, I was merely doing the port for a friend, thinking it would be far easier than it turned out to be. Get patching :-)

Download

• SVN repository http://svn.sharpley.org.uk/ipodslave
• There is no tarball/deb package as present as I do not consider the code to be stable enough yet

Disclaimer

General Disclaimer Applies. I am not responsible for anything that goes wrong or damage to your computer. This product is in no way affiliated with Apple or KDE