Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

I’ve written a python script that walks through a path tree, checking to see if each file in the tree is a track in the current user’s iTunes Music Library.xml file.
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Jaq and I share two computers, an iMac G4, and a Dell PC. I also bought a Linksys NSLU2 and a large USB Hard Drive, so that all of our music and videos can be stored on a server, and accessed from either computer (or the Xbox) without having to make sure the iMac was on. (That was the main computer, and the one we fight to get onto).

Of course, the NSLU2 helped remove clutter from the iMac’s hard drive, not to mention freeing up a heap of space.

Anyway, because we have a rather large music collection, it’s meaningless and wasteful to have copies of music stored in two places - I set up an SMB share on the NSLU2, wrote a small AppleScript to mount this on bootup, and pointed iTunes towards this location.

This has the feature of storing one copy of all of our music, in the one location. There are some drawbacks, however: (more…)

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I have been using Jaq’s iPod the last couple of days - mainly because when I am waiting at the Adelaide Railway Station, and at Lynton Station, I cannot get good enough radio reception on my phone’s radio.

So, I copied all of my Classical music onto the iPod, and I’ve been listening away.

I’d like to be able to rate tracks on the iPod, but I don’t really want to, for one big reason. I would only be able to rate them at 0-5 stars, not using the 0-100% ratings I use from iTunesRater.

I wonder if it’s possible to hack the iPod firmware so that rating occurs by a finer gradient?

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