Re: Is ephpod still necessary?

Sorry to be picky, but you are 1/2 correct also, Charles.  ;-)

>However, the Ipod as a music player depends on its own database system.

This is true, as Brendan said.

> It
>will only recognize songs or other music files based on their ID3 tags.  It
>does not look at file name or directory structure.

The iPod itself doesn't look at the ID3 tags either. It only looks at its db. 
It's the 
program you use to (transfer the songs to the iPod and) update the database 
the one which usually obtains the info from the tags, but you can configure 
EphPod to guess it from the filename/directory structure, so you can put songs 
on the iPod with no tags at all.

In EphPod, the order of seek is ID3v2(.3) (optional), then ID3v1 and finally 
dir 
structure (optional). If you don't set the latter, EphPod prompts the user 
before 
copying each untagged file it finds.

And you can use EphPod to update the info stored in the iPod's db with or 
without updating the tags of the songs stored on the iPod.

Anyways, the use of an ID3 tagging program is strongly recommended, since 
that's not EphPod focus, so its editing capabilities are somewhat limited.

iPod!, uPod?

Eduardo Delgado
puntoedu@xxxxxxxx



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