Tue, 25 Apr 2023 23:30:00 +0200
IPOD SHUFFLE SYNC

i consume my music on an ipod shuffle 4. since it has no display it
reads the name of the playlists and i can navigate them using the
buttons. however, i dont listen to playlists but albums. to get around
this, i create a playlist in itunes for every album i have. besides
being a pain to use, itunes is not available on linux. so i was forced
to keep my music library on my work laptop rely on macos for the
foreseeable future.

a few days ago i found this on the arch wiki:
https://github.com/nims11/IPod-Shuffle-4g

a way of syncing music onto my ipod without the need of itunes. i can
simply drag & drop songs onto the ipod's drive and it creates playlist
accordingly. to read back the playlist names it uses espeak. without
espeak it will still read "playlist 1, playlist 2" when navigating.
after copying the files i need to run a python script which i can store
on my ipod, so its accessible on any pc i use.

i wanted to share this in case there are other ipod shuffle users out
there struggling with the same problem.