That would be excellent and much appreciated. I smacked myself after making that post -- the first gens don't even have USB, not sure about the second, so I was considering purchasing a firewire card.
Thanks a lot! --Aaron On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 10:16 -0400, David McDowell wrote: > Want me to bring my pcmcia firewire card? it has 3 400mbit ports on > it. :) If I can get in touch with my Dad before Thursday, he has a > gen 2 iPod he no longer uses (to my knowledge). > > David McD > > > On 6/5/05, Aaron Bockover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am working on adding native iPod support to gnome-volume-manager, and > > also full iPod support to Sonance [http://sonance.aaronbock.net]. I am > > the lead developer of Sonance. > > > > I currently have most of the lower level device handling code written, > > and am looking for some iPod file system snapshots for testing. I > > currently have snapshots (taken from devices that I own) for: > > > > "Regular" iPod (4th Generation) > > "Regular" iPod (3rd Generation) > > iPod Photo > > iPod Shuffle > > > > I am looking for older devices (1st and 2nd generations) that I can > > connect to my laptop and rip a snapshot of the file system, however, > > I'll gladly rip any iPod. > > > > I would *NOT* be ripping the actual music stored on the iPod, just the > > control, device, and database information. I have written a shell script > > that will allow a quick rip. Ripping would mean I will have a copy of > > your database, and could thus see the contents of your iPod - but I > > won't rip the actual audio files referenced by the database (that would > > take quite a while!). > > > > I am simply looking to test for any possible discrepancies in various > > models and generations. > > > > If you have an iPod, of any kind, I would greatly appreciate you > > bringing it to the meeting on Thursday, and I'll quickly rip a snapshot > > before or after the meeting. Your generosity will help enhance the > > quality of upcoming advances in the multimedia experience for Linux. > > > > Also, I only have cables for 4th generation iPods. If you have an older > > iPod, please bring the USB cable! (No firewire please... the laptop > > doesn't have a firewire port :-/) > > > > Many, Many Thanks! > > > > Best, > > Aaron > > > > > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
