Banshee iPod Playlist Support

[Moozik: Simple Minds - Sweat In Bullet]

I did find one other thing that I'm going to add to the small list of things I don't like about Banshee. Currently there is no playlist support for iPods. This means that you can create playlists all day long in Banshee but they won't show up on your iPod. Which is a little annoying.

Playlist support was asked for in the Banshee Bugzilla back in 2005 and the latest word from Aaron is that iPod playlist support will be in the next series. Hmm. What to do?

Well, Perl can read/write the iTunes database on my iPod thanks to Mac::iPod::GNUpod [0] and my Banshee library resides in a sqlite database which Perl can talk to thanks to DBD::SQLite so tonight I hacked together an early version of a playlist syncing program. I still have the odd bug or two to work out but it's looking promising.

Let's see if I get it finished before Banshee officially supports what I'm attempting to do ;-)

[0] - Why is that module in the Mac::* namespace?