Is this what you are after? There are a lot of this type of files.

From USBDeviceConfiguration.plist

Not sure about the second part, either

USB composite device: USB\VID_0425&PID_0101\5&25047430&0&2
or
USB mass storage device: USB\VID_05E3&PID_0710\000000003299

Device Instance Ids:
USB\VID_05AC&PID_1291\C3FA1C5AA2356B00C60D564805B8A00C4C244FEF
(I just noticed that the last part is the same as my ipod serial #, btw)

Pnjman's probably gonna need to take care of a lot of the filesystem testing. Mine isnt jailbroken, and the only way for me to view the ipod filesystem through your preferences page. Although I can use foobars copy command to get database files and stuff off of the ipod.

This perhaps?

/System/Library/Frameworks/ArtworkCache.framework/Checkpoint.plist

The whole file can be found here.

Will it be a lot of work fixing something up without access to this file?

Perhaps itunes is using a different service to access the full filesystem? I noticed that when I open itunes with the ipod connected, there are a ton of services running:
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Maybe you could ask the guys who are working on ml_pod or mediamonkey to see how they did it. Im actually gonna do some tests with mediamonkey to try to figure out which processes it is using while it modifies the ipod database.

Edit: Ok, well the only thing ive found is that mediamonkey is using this library:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\iTunesMobileDevice.dll

The only other thing I see is the mediamonkey iphone and ipod plugins, so im guessing the Apple DLL alone isnt enough to get the access you need.

I looked through the foobar process, and it looks like you're using it too anyway, so Im not sure if that would help.

Thanks for building this awesome plugin! 

I am using a shuffle, so I need to convert all my lossless files to mp3 and foo_dop works great. 

Is there a way for me to use the tool to convert my lossless files to wav and send them straight to the shuffle (without doing the lame encoding)?  Its taking me quite a while to transcode 20 files when in reality, I only need to get about 1.5 hours of music onto the shuffle for my jogging. 

Also, I assume there are temporary files being written by foobar during the conversion.  I assume it goes, lossless->wav->mp3...  So where does that temporary wav file go?

Thanks again

Tom

I am very unfimiliar with iPod playlists, only basic creation of them within iTunes. I haven't even tried smart playlists, so please excuse if this question is elementary...

But recently I have been rating my songs.
I was wondering if there is a provision anywhere, that automatically creates a playlist according to it's rating. Say: 5 star playlist, 4+ starplaylist, 3+ star playlist and so on.
So as soon as the song has been rated within foobar, this song is automatically added to the corresponding playlist(s). And if the song is rated on your iPod, as soon as you sinc your iPod, these songs are also added to the corresponding playlist(s).

Cheers

Hello, currently having 1 problem with sending videos to the right place. I'm using an iPod 6G. The file format is h.264 and I've set the Show to be as for example "Family Guy".

I'm not sure what information you need, sorry.

Thanks!

if you set the album artist tag as "various artists" for compilations these albums will appear on your ipod in the compilations menu so i don't think it's necessary to change the title or anything else

Error reading iTunesDB : Network not reachable

if you set the album artist tag as "various artists" for compilations these albums will appear on your ipod in the compilations menu so i don't think it's necessary to change the title or anything else

Error reading OTGPlaylistInfo file : I/O Error: AFCFileInfoOpen returned: 8 Path was: /iTunes_Control/iTunes/OTGPlaylistInfo
Error reading dopdb : I/O Error: AFCFileInfoOpen returned: 8 Path was: /iTunes_Control/iTunes/dopdb