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Chapter 11, Hardware

#98 Sync Your iRiver with Linux

HACK

or by using the following command if your Metallica songs are in /home/

joeblogs/Metallica:

foo@bar:~$ cp -r /home/joeblogs/Metallica* /mnt/iriver

Rebuild the Database

The iRiver database is essential in terms of making the iRiver as usable as

possible. This database contains a detailed list of artists, genres, albums,

song lengths, track numbers, and more; many of the features in the iRiver

are available only if you have created the database. You still can use the

iRiver without the database, but you can choose your songs and albums

only via the clunky file manager on the iRiver as opposed to its special

menus. Unfortunately, the installation CD does not come with a tool to

build the database for Linux, but a simple utility available on the Internet,

called

iRipDB, can do the job. You can download iRipDB from http://www.

fataltourist.com/iripdb/.

Once you have downloaded the latest version of

iRipDB, unzip it onto your

hard disk with this command:

foo@bar:~$ tar xcvf iRipDB-x-x-x.tar.gz

Replace x-x-x with the actual version number of the iRipDB program. You

need to ensure that you have the following libraries on your system before

you compile the code:

libid3

This library provides the use of ID3 tags in songslibogg.

libvorbis

These libraries provide support for Ogg Vorbis files.

To compile the code, run the compilation script included with the ...