MacOSXPhiles

Looking for an easy way to browse the files on your iPod? Of course, there are a lot of ways to browse the music on your iPod, but this one allows you to do it using Firefox, and you don’t have to worry about the fact that the files are hidden. It doesn’t work with Safari, and I haven’t tried it with any other browsers, but I suspect that it will work with Mozilla as well.

Basically, it’s as simple as opening a new, blank Firefox window and just drag your iPod into that window. All of your music is located in the /ipod_control/Music/ folder, and filed into subfolders /F00, /F01, /F02 etc. Because the iPod doesn’t use the same directory structure as your iTunes library, finding a specific song won’t be easy, but it is one way to recover a song that you accidently deleted, or just move songs to another computer. In fact, there are plenty of other utilities available to do this, but this is just one very easy way to browse the files on your iPod that you couldn’t otherwise see using Finder.

Filed under: Mac OS X Tips, iPod Stuff

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