At the risk of geeking out this forum, I wanted to share a totally primitive, very geeky way of syncing music to an Android device (should work for any device, but I have a Captivate).
It will only work on a system that has a UNIX-ish shell system, however. To use it you should be very familiar with command lines, shell scripts, and enjoy doing things in that world. I wrote it and run it on a Mac.
The pros:
The cons:
If you're not deterred, I posted the source in a blog post here (mods, if it's not cool linking to my blog, sorry about that, feel free to delete or whatever).
Anyway, I had fun creating it, so thought I'd share.
It will only work on a system that has a UNIX-ish shell system, however. To use it you should be very familiar with command lines, shell scripts, and enjoy doing things in that world. I wrote it and run it on a Mac.
The pros:
- $0
- fun if you like to script
- slow (but likely no slower than anything else) the first time and really fast after that
- will sync only what you tell it, and even remove things, automatically
The cons:
- all command line
- have to edit a text file to tell it what to sync
- doesn't interact with iTunes (or anything else) even a teensy bit (maybe this is a pro for some
) - you have to know how to mount your device
- zero, nada, nil error detection or correction -- if you use this you're really on your own ...
- you'll have to modify the scripts yourself for your systems
If you're not deterred, I posted the source in a blog post here (mods, if it's not cool linking to my blog, sorry about that, feel free to delete or whatever).
Anyway, I had fun creating it, so thought I'd share.
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