Free your iPod shuffle
This made my day: I just found on macosxhints a Python script that can be used to build a songs database for the iPod shuffle.
The best thing about the script is that you can put the song files however you like on the iPod and the script will happily find them and build the files needed by the device to play them. This is amazing: not only it’s much easier to use than GNUpod or similar tools, I can actually keep it directly in my iPod and use it everywhere, I just need Python to be installed.
In a quick email exchange with Martin – the script’s author – I also discovered that it sorts the songs according to the folders I place them in and alphabetically inside the folders.
I guess I don’t need much more. Thank you Martin.