iTunesFS: your music in Finder
iTunesFS is a MacFUSE filesystem, written by Marcus Müller, that lets you browse your iTunes music library and playlists from the finder. It's a great example of MacFUSE being put to use, and the source code is available (via Subversion) for others to learn from.
iTunesFS allows you to manage the songs in your library directly. "But I can drag and drop files right from iTunes," you say. Not from your iPod(s), you can't. iTunesFS detects iPods, and allows for direct control over the music contents. It also offers a view of your playlists with sequentially numbered filenames to preserve playlist order. If you're handy with Terminal, it's a simple task to customize the formatting of the naming scheme as well.
iTunesFS requires MacFUSE, available at Google Code.
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Alastair Stuart said 10:53AM on 1-02-2008
You left out the best bit - it works on iPods!
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Brett Terpstra said 11:06AM on 1-02-2008
"iTunesFS detects iPods, and allows for direct control over the music contents."
It's there :).
Alastair Stuart said 11:13AM on 1-02-2008
Ignore please, tired eyes can't read!
5cents said 11:26AM on 1-02-2008
Similar MacFUSE implementation for iPods as iPodDisk. Very nice.
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Eric said 12:07PM on 1-02-2008
13 & God! nice choice for the screenshot :-D
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rahkomi said 1:09PM on 1-02-2008
For a free iTunes remote controller for Mac OS X, Windows and Java ME mobile phones, please visit http://remotunes.rahkomi.com
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Dave said 6:33PM on 1-02-2008
13 & God rules! Always playing when itunes or my ipod decide to just randomly start playing the first song in the library.... Strangely it's now at the bottom of the library, meaning I'll have to actually decide to listen to it.
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artifex said 8:22PM on 1-02-2008
anyone else reminded of BFS? :)
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Beau said 9:54PM on 1-02-2008
does it work for the iPod touch?
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Brett Terpstra said 10:02PM on 1-02-2008
@Eric and Dave: at least I'm not getting flamed :). I have to keep a good portion of my collection confined to headphones only...
@Beau: Haven't had a chance to verify this yet, but it should. I'd be interested to hear reports.
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Brian St. John said 7:54AM on 1-03-2008
If you like 13 & God, check out Tied & Tickled Trio. Both bands have members of The Notwist (Germany) in them.
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Tijs said 1:46PM on 1-05-2008
Now that the iPhoto libarary has become this big inaccessible ball of data it would be great to have an iPhotoFS as well.
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