<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I'm not sure, but I think that the reason for the obfuscation is part of the anti-piracy concessions that allowed the iTunes store in the first place. Basically, Apple makes it easy to move data from computer-->iPod, but difficult in the other direction. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I believe that authors of these iPod tools like Senuti have had to make updates because Apple changes the way the iPod stores data in order to prevent just what you're doing.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Can anyone corroborate this or shed more light on it?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 2, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Jan Melichar wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Thanks for the tip. In fact I used TinkerTool to make them visible but quite apart from their names bearing no helpful relation to what I was after after copying them over to the computer I could get only a few to appear in iTunes;</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>