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Hey.

I'm sort of in a challenge I made myself, collecting 40,000 songs for my 160GB ipod. Friends and family sort of cheer me on and I usually keep them updated posting the new total on Facebook and in my WLM screen name.
This got me thinking.

I'm not in any way a developer, and I wouldn't know where to start, so I'm asking as a request/challenge, is there anyone out there who could possibly set up a script that can do the following?:

1. Change Screen Name or Personal Message to say the total number of

a) Songs
b) Videos
c) Photos
   
    Off of a plugged in ipod? Some kind of counter, you know?

2. Allow script to update by minute of user's choice.


I've seen these kinds of features from scripts before, but never with the aid of an USB external device.
If anyone tries this out, I will be keeping an eye open in hopes! Thanks!

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Originally posted by Kryst
Hey.

I'm sort of in a challenge I made myself, collecting 40,000 songs for my 160GB ipod. Friends and family sort of cheer me on and I usually keep them updated posting the new total on Facebook and in my WLM screen name.
This got me thinking.

I'm not in any way a developer, and I wouldn't know where to start, so I'm asking as a request/challenge, is there anyone out there who could possibly set up a script that can do the following?:

1. Change Screen Name or Personal Message to say the total number of

a) Songs
b) Videos
c) Photos
   
    Off of a plugged in ipod? Some kind of counter, you know?

2. Allow script to update by minute of user's choice.


I've seen these kinds of features from scripts before, but never with the aid of an USB external device.
If anyone tries this out, I will be keeping an eye open in hopes! Thanks!

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I highly doubt this is possible, as i dont know how a script would call a USB external device without using a lot of coding and an externall dll, which would take a lot of work, so i doubt this will be made, sorry to burst your bubble.
I suppose however, i cant remember if itunes shows the number of songs and videos etc, because a scirpt could be made to read a certain section from that window, but itunes would need to be always open and also, this would probably cause a lot of lag within messenger

Accessing an iPod from a PC is not possible without knowing or at least guessing some of the API.

Why is everyone saying it isn't possible...

There are 2 ways. You can indeed use a DLL to hook and detect when a USB device is connected that is certainly possible.

An alternate method is to loop through all the drive letters check if they are removable media then check if the device is an iPod.

So yes it is possible I may take a look into doing this. Awhile back I started iPod Backup but that never was finished and I don't think I have the source anymore but it did detect when a USB device was connected.

Couldn't you also pull the data from iTunes?

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Originally posted by vaccination
Couldn't you also pull the data from iTunes?

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Probably haven't looked at the iTunes API.

Just a heads up, so far in 37 lines of code I can detect when a USB device is plugged in and disconnected.

In 45 lines of code I am able to do a check if the device that was plugged in is an iPod.

Oh by the way it is pure Plus! Scripting, no external dlls I needed to code, no looping through drive letters.

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Originally posted by matty
Just a heads up, so far in 37 lines of code I can detect when a USB device is plugged in and disconnected.

In 45 lines of code I am able to do a check if the device that was plugged in is an iPod.

Oh by the way it is pure Plus! Scripting, no external dlls I needed to code, no looping through drive letters.

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Detecting the ipod with matty's code you can count the number of x like this:
Music: check the number of ipod compatible audio formats in the ipod's data folders...
for video, easy, MP4, in the data folders.
for images, jpg and i think it supports png too... again in the data folders.....
not too complicated, i thinks


Wouldn't work with the touch/iphone though.

by the looks of the script matty has made a good script but it looks like it only works on the "G" drive...

make it scan all of the availible drives...
and be availible for ipod nanos and shuffles...

p.s. i do know some of the API (hardly any)

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Originally posted by zogo
by the looks of the script matty has made a good script but it looks like it only works on the "G" drive...

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No, the script tells you the drive letter the device took in Windows.

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Originally posted by Voldemort

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Originally posted by matty
Just a heads up, so far in 37 lines of code I can detect when a USB device is plugged in and disconnected.

In 45 lines of code I am able to do a check if the device that was plugged in is an iPod.

Oh by the way it is pure Plus! Scripting, no external dlls I needed to code, no looping through drive letters.

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Detecting the ipod with matty's code you can count the number of x like this:
Music: check the number of ipod compatible audio formats in the ipod's data folders...
for video, easy, MP4, in the data folders.
for images, jpg and i think it supports png too... again in the data folders.....
not too complicated, i thinks


Wouldn't work with the touch/iphone though.

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I am working on reading the iTunesDB file but currently it does just check the music folder