Cracking the iPod the easy way

[lvt at mac.com]

>From macworld secrets 911 jan 2003

http://www.macworld.com/2003/01/secrets/mac911/


"Tip of the Month

Among its many talents, The Omni Group's $30 Web browser, OmniWeb
(800/315-6664, www.omnigroup.com), has the power to peer into your iPod. To
reveal the unseen, configure your iPod so that it mounts as a FireWire drive
(select the Enable FireWire Disk Use option in the iPod Preferences window
within iTunes).

Drag the iPod's icon on top of the OmniWeb icon. OmniWeb will launch, and
within the browser window, you'll see a list of all the files on your iPod
(even the invisible ones). Double-click on the iPod_Control folder, then on
the Music folder inside that, and finally on one of the folders that begin
with F (F01, F02, or F03, for example) inside the Music folder. To copy a
music file from the iPod to your Mac, control-click on the file you want to
copy, and select Download File To desktop: name of file from the resulting
contextual menu (where desktop is the location to which OmniWeb normally
downloads files and name of file is the name of the song). To use the
QuickTime plug-in to play a song within OmniWeb, double-click on the file
inside the browser window.

-- Matthew Covington, Watsonville, California"

The ³free² version works too

Linda
SE Michigan