Comments on: Transfer music to your iPod via the command line http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/ News, tips, software, reviews, and more for Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:38:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: jaripody http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-107873 jaripody Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:34:42 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-107873 Transfer and backup iPod/iTouch files to computer hard disk and iTunes directly <a href="http://www.ipod-transfer.org/" rel="nofollow">ipod transfer</a> has step to step guide easy to use Transfer and backup iPod/iTouch files to computer hard disk and iTunes directly
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]]> By: liz http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-99951 liz Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:27:32 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-99951 This transfers from ipod to computer, not computer to ipod. What is the corresponding command-line argument to do it the other way around? I tried simply switching the from/to locations. But that doesn't work. Perhaps not only does the ipod require the files to be in those directories, but also requires some listing system file in order to display them. Where do I access that file, and what is the format of the names of songs stored in it so that I can not only transfer the mp3 file but also tranfer its info so it can be accessed by the ipod to listen? Thanks! This transfers from ipod to computer, not computer to ipod. What is the corresponding command-line argument to do it the other way around? I tried simply switching the from/to locations. But that doesn’t work. Perhaps not only does the ipod require the files to be in those directories, but also requires some listing system file in order to display them. Where do I access that file, and what is the format of the names of songs stored in it so that I can not only transfer the mp3 file but also tranfer its info so it can be accessed by the ipod to listen?
Thanks!

]]> By: hgger http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-98991 hgger Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:18:30 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-98991 How to transfer video to ipod? ITunes? How to transfer video to ipod? ITunes?

]]> By: ha. http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-9022 ha. Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:19:04 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-9022 It Does.. It Does..

]]> By: LKM http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-4070 LKM Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:42:40 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-4070 Uhm... Doesn't that transfer *from* the iPod *to* the Mac? Weird. Uhm… Doesn’t that transfer *from* the iPod *to* the Mac? Weird.

]]> By: Nick Brogna http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-4045 Nick Brogna Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:23:22 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-4045 @Matt: You hit the nail on the head. 'cp -R' in UNIX-land is a recursive copy, so all that is happening is the contents of your music folder is being copied to the music folder of your iPod. Nothing more, nothing less. And to get around spaces and punctuation on a command line escape the special characters and spaces with a single backslash, like so... /Volumes/Matt\'s\ iPod/ @Matt: You hit the nail on the head. ‘cp -R’ in UNIX-land is a recursive copy, so all that is happening is the contents of your music folder is being copied to the music folder of your iPod. Nothing more, nothing less. And to get around spaces and punctuation on a command line escape the special characters and spaces with a single backslash, like so…

/Volumes/Matt\’s\ iPod/

]]> By: MariusTh86 http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-4037 MariusTh86 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:49:59 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-4037 @Matt You can also put up apostrophes around the entire path like: "/Volumes/Matt's iPod/", this puts the whole thing in a single string and feeds it to the command line. Or you can escape characters by putting a slash in front of odd characters and spaces like so: /Volumes/Matt\'s\ iPod/ @Matt You can also put up apostrophes around the entire path like: “/Volumes/Matt’s iPod/”, this puts the whole thing in a single string and feeds it to the command line.
Or you can escape characters by putting a slash in front of odd characters and spaces like so: /Volumes/Matt\’s\ iPod/

]]> By: anon http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-4035 anon Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:18:27 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-4035 Works, but it does seem a bit slow to me too, so I don't know how great of a tip this really is. Maybe it's just percieved slow because theres no status bar @Matt: There's probably a better way but I just put double-quotes around something that has a apostrophe in there, so in your case it would be cp -R /Volumes/"Matt's iPod"/ or whatever. I'm no command line expert though so I'm sure someone will come along with a better way Works, but it does seem a bit slow to me too, so I don’t know how great of a tip this really is. Maybe it’s just percieved slow because theres no status bar

@Matt:
There’s probably a better way but I just put double-quotes around something that has a apostrophe in there, so in your case it would be cp -R /Volumes/”Matt’s iPod”/ or whatever. I’m no command line expert though so I’m sure someone will come along with a better way

]]> By: Matt Swain http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-4034 Matt Swain Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:54:28 +0000 http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/29/transfer-music-to-your-ipod-via-the-command-line/#comment-4034 Yeah, this seems to work, but takes ages for me - I think might copy every single music file instead of syncing the ones that have been changed since your iPod was last updated. I also had problems with the name of my iPod - "Matt's iPod". It seems it doesn't like punctuation like apostrophes in the file path. I'm sure there is a way around this that regular command line users will know, but I just temporarily renamed my iPod to try out the command. Yeah, this seems to work, but takes ages for me – I think might copy every single music file instead of syncing the ones that have been changed since your iPod was last updated.

I also had problems with the name of my iPod – “Matt’s iPod”. It seems it doesn’t like punctuation like apostrophes in the file path. I’m sure there is a way around this that regular command line users will know, but I just temporarily renamed my iPod to try out the command.

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