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Album Cover Art Downloader makes iPod a touch nicer

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:00:00 GMT
When ripping CDs from my own collection or (shh) my friends', I didn't always bother to include the cover art. Personally, I never considered album art for my iPod all that important. That has changed now that we have an iPod touch in the family. If I'm missing a lot of album art, the experience of virtually flipping through my music collection, something Apple calls "cover flow," is diminished. iTunes doesn't always offer art for albums I didn't purchase from iTunes. Thankfully, a little GPL-licensed application called Album Cover Art Downloader (ACAD) solved my problem.

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mktunes

MKTUNES(1)							   User Commands							MKTUNES(1)

NAME

       mktunes - convert GNUtunesDB's XML into iTunesDB format

SYNOPSIS

       mktunes [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       Convert GNUtunesDB.xml into iTunesDB format

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       -m, --mount=DIRECTORY
	      iPod mountpoint. Default is $IPOD_MOUNTPOINT

       -n, --ipod-name=NAME
	      iPod Name (For unlabeled iPods). iTunes displays this name, not the label.

       -v, --volume=VALUE
	      Adjust volume +-VALUE% (example: --volume +5)

       -e, --energy
	      Save energy (= Disable scrolling title)

       -g, --fwguid=HEXVAL
	      Enforce  iPod  serial/firewire-guid.  Late  2007 iPod models (3gen Nano, Classic, Touch) refuse to work unless the iTunesDB has been
	      signed with a sha1 hash. This hash helps to detect corrupted databases, prevents sharing an  iTunesDB  between  multiple	iPods  and
	      locks  out  non-apple  software.	GNUpod is able to create the required hash value if it knows the iPods serial number, this is a 16
	      chars long hex value such as: '000ba3100310abcf' and should be autodetected on GNU/Linux	(via  /proc/bus/usb/devices)  and  Solaris
	      (via  prtconf  -v).  Use	this switch to set the serial if the autodetection somehow fails to find the correct serial number of your
	      iPod.  You can also specify  the value in your configuration file (gnupodrc) as 'mktunes.fwguid = 000ba3100310abcf'.

AUTHOR

       Written by Adrian Ulrich

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-gnupod@nongnu.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) Adrian Ulrich
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       The  full  documentation for gnupod is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info program and GNUpod are properly installed at your site,
       the command

	      info gnupod

       should give you access to the complete manual.

mktunes 1.00							     June 2005								MKTUNES(1)

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