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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Source: http://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/software/iTunesFS/

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Tijs Teulings

Now that the iPhoto libarary has become this big inaccessible ball of data it would be great to have an iPhotoFS as well.

January 05 2008 at 10:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brian St. John

If you like 13 & God, check out Tied & Tickled Trio. Both bands have members of The Notwist (Germany) in them.

January 03 2008 at 7:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brett Terpstra

@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.

January 02 2008 at 10:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Beau

does it work for the iPod touch?

January 02 2008 at 9:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

artifex

anyone else reminded of BFS? :)

January 02 2008 at 8:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dave

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.

January 02 2008 at 6:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rahkomi

For a free iTunes remote controller for Mac OS X, Windows and Java ME mobile phones, please visit http://remotunes.rahkomi.com

January 02 2008 at 1:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eric

13 & God! nice choice for the screenshot :-D

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5cents

Similar MacFUSE implementation for iPods as iPodDisk. Very nice.

January 02 2008 at 11:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

You left out the best bit - it works on iPods!

January 02 2008 at 10:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply