wfx_iPod - plugin for Total Commander 5.51 and newer.

This is a plugin to acces the music stored on an Apple iPod
(www.apple.com/ipod). It reads the iTunesDB and proviedes all
songs in a directorystrucure like "\{artist}\{album}\{<format>.mp3}"
or "\{genre}\{<format>.mp3}". You can copy all songs from an iPod with
an well formated filename to your harddisc.
(for backup only; don't steal music!)
To upload songs to your iPod simply copy them into any directory of the plugin
To change an artist or an album of a group of songs rename the folder they're in
Moving a song into the folder of a genre/composer will change the genre/composer
Deleting a song from will delete the song from the iPod; except for playlists.
Here the song is only removed from the playlist.
Copy a song from an non-playlist-folder(on iPod) to a playlist-folder will add the
song to the playlist

Presupposition: An iPod with a readable filesystem. So if you have an
mac-formated iPod you will need a hfs+-plugin to read Apple's filesystem.
Your iPod needs a drive-letter (discmode enabled)!!
windowsplugins for reading the hfs+-filesystem are i.e.:
MacDrive - http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
MacOpener - http://www.dataviz.com/products/macopener/
And a working firewire(IEEE 1394)-adapter

How to install the plugin in Total Commander:
1. Unzip the archive to an empty directory (If you're not interrested in
the sourcecode it's sufficient to copy \bin\ipod.wfx and your languagefile)
2. Choose Configuration - Options - Operation - FS-Plugins
3. Click "Add"
4. choose ipod.wfx
5. Click OK. You can now access the iPod in "Network Neighborhood"

IMPORTANT: The iPod's drive-letter is found by the plugin itself. The language
can be changed by copying the *.lan file onto the plugin.

For details about the .ini-file View (F3) the 'about'-file at the plugin or
see the about-section in the language-file.

The Plugin (only the provided source files if nothing else is said in the specific
file) is distributed under the GNU GPL and commes with ABSOLUTLY NO WARRANTY, see
Lisence.txt for details.
wfx_iPod makes a backup of the iTunesDB before writing the new one. The backup can
be found at "<ipod>:\iPod_Control\iTunes\iTunesDB - wfx_iPod backup". Notice that
this backup contains only the last version of the iTunesDB before writing the last
time the new one. A new iTunesDB is written (if nessesary) each time you click on
disconnect-button or close TC.


(c) 2003 Jonas Bhr
http://www.jonas-baehr.de