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iPod Music Liberator

This util is deprecated. There is a bug in which the "artist" of a file is used instead of the "album" to create the new directory structure. Also, I'm rebuilding this util into a more generalized music liberator that will take an existing directory tree, pull out all the audio files and move them into a new tree.

I had a copy of an iPod on one of my drives but it was in the native (and completely useless) iTunesDB structure (e.g., "Music\F00\ABQD.mp3"). So I built this tool that extracts all the files, one at a time, and copies them into a more traditional file structure (e.g., "Artist\Album\TrackTitle.mp3").

Instead of reading from the proprietary iTunesDB it uses the meta data of the actual files. It can extract meta data from (most) MP3s, MP4s (including M4P, M4A, M4V) and some lucky WAVs. (Media files it can't extract meta data from get thrown into the Error\ directory for hand parsing. In my test of 1649 files it failed only 0.67% of the time.)

There are a bazillion tools that do this sort of thing and this is probably not the best one. But like the rest of my stuff it's simple and straight-forward. And, perhaps more than anything, it got me to write a .NET API for extracting meta data from MP4 files (I'll upload that source code separately.)

iPod Music Liberator.exe
Don't use this. It's got a little bug.

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