[haiku-development] Re: iPod on Haiku
- From: James Bell <james.bell@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 16:58:14 +0100
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:24 PM, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I read that iPods use a FAT32 file system on Windows and a HFS+ file
>> system on Mac.
>
> Not exactly.
>
> It's not possible to use 2 different fs at once for r/w, unless they
> are faked... (for read only mkisofs can make an hybrid iso/hfs..)
>
> IIRC old iPods use a FAT with a custom registry-like databased in files
> inside it for metadata.
> IIRC newer iPods now encrypt this database to make sure only iTunes can
> use it (which equivalent to tied sale and should be forbidden in France
> btw :p).
Just as an iPod user from the past:
I'm not sure this is strictly true. I haven't owned an iPod for a few
generations now (hard drives kept dying on me), but they did used to
ask what format you wanted the disc in: HFS+ or FAT32. This had the
aggrevating side effect that if you owned an OS X box and a Windows
box, you couldn't sync your iPod to both without reformatting the iPod
partition (another reason to ditch the device).
The flat-file database for metadata does exist, and is the same format
as the flat-file db used for iTunes. It is intensely verbose, contains
all your music in a single place (making incremental changes take a
while to perform for file searching) and prone to corruption. I did a
quick websearch, but couldn't find the standard locations for this on
either operating systems, but I haven't much time at the moment to
check it out.
James
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