Mounting removable media devices in iTunes.
A while back Willow bought me the USB MixTape Stick from suckuk. It’s a small cardboard box that looks like an old cassette tape, and inside it it’s a 64MB USB memory stick. Having been a mix-tape-creator in my young days, I love this crossover from old to new formats. The “new way” does eliminate some of the beauty and craft required in making a good mix-tape but, never the less, it’s at least a physical object to hand over to someone.
Anyway, as the title implies, I would love if this little USB device could pop-up and be managed through iTunes. I have given Google quite a few queries but can’t seem to find an answer. Maybe it’s not possible…
The closest I’ve got is trying to fool iTunes into believing that the removable device is a compact disc by create a file named ‘ContentsDB.xml’ and place it on the device. I could live with that — a ‘read only’ device. But unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work anymore.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Here’s some UN*X, that you could probably adjust and turn into an applet to sync a particular folder … useful?
http://www.marc-seeger.de/2007/07/rsync-or-how-i-sync-my-usb-stick-with-itunes.html
Thanks Tom,
I have no problem populating the device, I’m more after a ‘compact-disc-like-behavior’, so that whoever receive my USB MixTape just need to plug it into their computer and it will magically appear in their iTunes — no need to import mp3 etc and so on.
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how much is it?
Jo, you can get it for £20 from the suckuk website.