rePear is a very useful tool for all iPod users who, for some reason, are not happy about iTunes and want to manage their music files for themselves.

With rePear, you can copy music to the iPod with Explorer, Finder, Konqueror, Nautilus or any other file manager you like (yes, cp will work, too ;) and have it played back by the iPod with (almost) no hassles.

Just start this litte program after plugging the iPod into your USB port and before unplugging it.

WARNING: rePear is still in development and may or may not work for you. You should always create a backup of the /iPod_Control/iTunes directory before trying rePear. You take any responsibility or liability for any damage caused by the use of rePear.

Here are some key features of "rePear":

· multiplatform (written in Python)
· graphical user interface on Windows
· support for MP3 sound files
· support for M4A sound files (AAC)
· support for Ogg Vorbis files (will be automatically transcoded into MP3 using OggDec and LAME)
· experimental support for MP4 video files (MPEG-4 ASP and AVC/H.264)
· reads metadata (title, artist, album, ...) from ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis and iTunes comment tags
· explicit playlist support: automatically recognizes all .m3u playlists
· implicit playlist support: playlists can be generated from folders, with custom sort order and (optional) shuffle
· cover artwork support: put a cover.jpg file into a album directory and you're set
· last.fm scrobbling support

Requirements:

· Python

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· added command-line options to override master playlist and scrobble config file names (either relative to the root directory or relative to the working directory from which rePear is being run)
· fixed crash bug for rare broken ID3v2 tags
· added 'help' action