Re: [linux-audio-user] how to un-ipod some m4a songs. - Linux-audio-user

17 Apr 2006

----- paul wisehart &lt;listreader(a)lupulin.net&gt; wrote:
...
  On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 08:32:04PM -0400, Lee Revell
wrote:
  Is there an easy way to get the songs off the
iPod under Linux?    
 I've used gtkpod to get songs off of ipods with both apple and
 windows
 formatted ipods, and then used faad/lame to make mp3s.
 (If the songs are stored as mp3, then obviously no conversion is
 needed.) 
I'm a fan of the dir2ogg script in Debian for converting a directory of many other
codecs to ogg/vorbis and keeping metadata. Also, if you would like to go the other way
around I modified the mp32ogg script to do ogg->mp3 and renamed it "ipod
hammer" since I changed it quite a lot. This is useful for example if you have a
large collection of riped music in ogg/vorbis format and would like to share it with
someone who only has an ipod. It's lossy, so sound quality is effected. It is
obviously a band-aid until Apple gets their head out of their ass and listens to their
customers who want a real open source codec.

Download it here. Email me any issues. I'll be making a Debian package sometime soon.
http://lee.97montrose.org/hacking/ipodhammer.tar

-lee