IPod-Shuffle-4g/README.md

IPod Shuffle 4g Scripts

##shuffle.py

Python script for building the Track and Playlist database for the newer gen IPod Shuffle. Forked from the shuffle-db-ng project

Just put your audio files into the mass storage of your IPod and shuffle.py will do the rest

$ python shuffle.py -h
usage: shuffle.py [-h] [--disable-voiceover] [--rename-unicode] path

positional arguments:
  path

optional arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --disable-voiceover  Disable Voiceover Feature
  --rename-unicode     Rename Files Causing Unicode Errors, will do minimal
                       required renaming

Additions to the original

• Option to disable voiceover
• Initialize the IPod Directory tree
• Using the --rename-unicode flag, filenames with strange characters and different language are renamed which avoids the script to crash with a Unicode Error

Dependencies

This script requires:

• Python 2.7
• Mutagen
• PicoSpeaker

Ubuntu

apt-get install python-mutagen libttspico*

Arch Linux

From the Extra repository: pacman -S python2 mutagen and from the AUR: svox-pico-git (link)

##TODO

• Last.fm Scrobbler
• Qt frontend

##EXTRA READING

• I wrote about how to use this script with Rhythmbox for easy syncing of playlists and songs