Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Importing DB from iTunes

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

On 10/19/05, Jaime López <jaime lopez gmail com> wrote:
> > Is the iPod-db the same format as the iTunes-db? If so, it should be
> > easy to add import support to Rhythmbox.
>
> I don't know if there's any difference... Probably I could have used
> also libgpod or something to test it and parse the binary format, but
> I found more easy to parse the XML version of the same file in the
> local iTunes Music folder. I think they are kept in sync

I don't think they're kept in sync simply because the itunes db can
have more songs than the ipod in the case of something like the
shuffle where you normally can't fit your entiire music collection on
the ipod.

pete