Spodlight

Okay, so we all know that you can make Spotlight index the invisible folder of music / videos on your iPod(s) by running a bit of instructions via the Terminal, but for those Terminal-phobic amongst you, there's always Spodlight. Launch Spodlight, select your iPod, click Index, and away it goes!

After Spodlight finishes indexing your iPod, you can quit the program and whenever you like simply launch Spotlight and start a search to find files. Due to the fun four letter alphanumeric numbering system on your iPod, it might be a little difficult to spot some of those files with Spotlight, but broad sweeping searches by file type work like a charm.

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Okay, so we all know that you can make Spotlight index the invisible folder of music / videos on your iPod(s) by running a bit of...

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Doug Adams

If you are careful, after Spodlighting your iPod, you can haul those files back into your iTunes Library. However, since the 4-letter file-naming scheme is confusing at best, it's probably better to do one file at a time. Also, the AppleScript Bring Out Yer Dead will allow you to select a "dead" file track in iTunes (designated with the (!)) and attempt to locate a file using Spotlight that corresponds to the selected track's Song Name, Artist, and Album, and then allow you to replace the "dead track" with a file from the search results--which could be on the iPod if Spodlighted.

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