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]
                  [--track-gain TRACK_GAIN]
                  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
  --track-gain TRACK_GAIN
                        Store this volume gain (0-99) for all tracks; 0
                        (default) means no gain and is usually fine; e.g. 60
                        is very loud even on minimal player volume

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 -- for non-Russian files
• RHVoice (master branch, 3e31edced402a08771d2c48c73213982cbe9333e) -- for Russian files only
• SoX -- for Russian files only

Ubuntu

apt-get install python-mutagen libttspico*

Arch Linux

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

Gentoo Linux

PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" emerge -av media-libs/mutagen
layman --add=ikelos
layman --overlays="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ahippo/rhvoice-gentoo-overlay/master/repositories.xml" --fetch --add=ahippo-rhvoice-overlay
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge -av app-accessibility/svox app-accessibility/rhvoice

References to the overlays above: ikelos, ahippo-rhvoice-overlay

##TODO

• Last.fm Scrobbler
• Qt frontend

##EXTRA READING

• shuffle3db specification
• Using shuffle.py and Rhythmbox for easy syncing of playlists and songs

The original shuffle3db website went offline. This repository contains a copy of the information inside the docs folder. Original data can be found via wayback machine.