Hello again
It has been long time since I blogged. Mostly because I was not at home and when I was I did not feel like doing something in the computer other than listening music.
I had to do a quick visit to the States because work, and then my brother came from Paris to my place to spend Christmas together. I showed him Nürnberg and then quick trips to Prag (my 2nd time, and the third is coming…) and Berlin for new year.
I got a hard disk based mp3 player. The cool thing is that it can play ogg files and also works as a standard usb-storage device.
It has its problem though. Like most player, the jukebox database is completely proprietary. Emailing the company did not work as it was a rebranded product. Emailing the original makers resulted only in getting ignored.
After playing with khexedit for a while I was able to figure the simple fixed field length format of the binary database. I wrote a test program using Qt and Taglib (thanks Scott, it rocks, so simple…) to recreate the database for my collection. I haven’t however yet figured the index files. Also, I have no idea how to read the FAT short names so I have to mount has VFAT to copy and keep the nice names, but as MSDOS to generate the database and see the shortnames the player stores in the database. Once I figure out the indexes, it should work. If it does, I plan to write an amaroK media device plugin (no idea how to resolve the mount issue here).
