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At the beginning it was literally just a disk with an HFS+ file system. You could drag files to and from it with the Finder. No reverse engineering necessary.
by dreamcompiler 7y ago
At the beginning it was literally just a disk with an HFS+ file system. You could drag files to and from it with the Finder. No reverse engineering necessary.
- scarface74 7y agoYou’re talking about two separate things. You could never drag music to the iPod and have it recognized by the music player. You could always drag random files to it and have it work as a hard drive. On Windows it was NTFS (Fat32?) on Macs it was HFS+
- dreamcompiler 7y agoI never mentioned music. I was talking about files in general. And even with music it was easy to drag music files from an iPod; they were merely in a hidden folder. I don't remember trying to drag music to an iPod with the Finder because it used to be so easy to do that with iTunes.
- scarface74 7y agoYes you could always drag music from the iPod, but you never had anyway of knowing which song was which because all of the names were changed to a random filename.
- derefr 7y agoThe files kept their embedded ID3 tags, so if you had tagged them correctly in iTunes, you could use an ID3 tagger's "tag to filename" conversion to name the files.