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utility to sync an itunes playlist to a directory (like a mounted sd card/phone)
1A couple scripts for maintaining a directory of music files (probably located
2on a USB music player or SD card) from an iTunes playlist.
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4Requires the `appscript` gem.
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6###itunes-rsync.rb
7Query a given iTunes playlist, build a scratch directory symlinking all files
8of that playlist into it, then run `rsync` from the scratch directory to the
9path given.
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11**Note:** `rsync`'s `--delete` option is used, so it will delete any files in
12the given path that are not found in the playlist.
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14Usage: `ruby itunes-rsync.rb "ipod (auto)" /Volumes/music/iTunes/`
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16###playlist_album_shuffle.rb
17Query a given iTunes playlist, organize all tracks into albums, shuffle the
18albums, and then print the filename of each track in each album (in its
19original track order) to STDOUT, relative to the path given.
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21Mimics the album shuffle functionality of iTunes and older iPods and can be
22used to create a few album-shuffled `.pls` playlists of a given list of tracks
23for players that don't natively support album shuffle.
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25**Note:** The path for the second argument is the path relative to all media as
26it would be mounted by the player. Nothing is saved to that path and the
27output is all done to STDOUT.
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29Usage: `ruby playlist_album_shuffle.rb "ipod (auto)" /mnt/SD1/iTunes/ > /Volumes/AK100/album\ shuffle\ 1.pls`
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