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I'm creating this no-nonsense player for rehearsing dancers. It should play all (CD, any files). Is there a way to control an iPod/iPhone connected on a USB cable? That means reading its contents and playing it back, stopping, pausing, reading time)?

I think on MAC it could be possible with all kinds of shell-commands, but I am not a shell-expert. And nothing found in the MAX objects database.

Is there an object somewhere? (A kind of "folder" for attached USB-devices?)

Hi,
I'm creating this no-nonsense player for rehearsing dancers. It should play all (CD, any files). Is there a way to control an iPod/iPhone connected on a USB cable? That means reading its contents and playing it back, stopping, pausing, reading time)?
I think on MAC it could be possible with all kinds of shell-commands, but I am not a shell-expert. And nothing found in the MAX objects database.
Is there an object somewhere? (A kind of "folder" for attached USB-devices?)
Or good shell-documentation on this?

max-controlling-ipod

If your audio files show up as a folder (or drive letter on Windows) you should be able to access them normally from Max. Try the autopopulate command for [umenu] (it's in the Help file). Then you can send the filename from the [umenu] through [prepend load] or read or whatever is needed, to [sfplay~], [buffer~], etc.

If I connect an iPod or equivalent it doesn't show up as a drive. It only shows up in iTunes. At the moment it would show as a drive by itself there hardly would be a problem. (These things go for MAC. I'm not that familiar with windows anymore.)

However, I like your autopopulate trick. Could come in handy at times.

Unfortunately that is the problem.
If I connect an iPod or equivalent it doesn't show up as a drive. It only shows up in iTunes. At the moment it would show as a drive by itself there hardly would be a problem. (These things go for MAC. I'm not that familiar with windows anymore.)
However, I like your autopopulate trick. Could come in handy at times.

Possibly somewhere in iTunes folder there are library/playlist folders? Maybe you can find the actual audio-file folder somewhere, which I'm assuming would at least reference the files on the iPod. Might not be possible though. Or maybe there's a way to put the audio files onto the iPod as generic files, rather than typical audio files, which probably are dealt with/obfuscated in some way.

You could place the music on your iPod as song files rather than audio as suggested above, this would mean not being able to play them back as normal on the iPod but using it like a giant memory stick. Or you could look into scripting iTunes using the [shell] external if you're working on a mac. You'll need to have manual updating turned on for this to work and obviously if you want to access the audio in max you'll need some sort of soundflower routing set up to do so.

In iTunes, when the iPod is connected, you can choose to use the device as a drive. Click on the iPod's name in the side menu, and on the main screen you should have an option to "Enable Disk Use".

In Windows, it then shows up as an external disk: I imagine it does the same on a Mac. Give that a go :-)

In iTunes, when the iPod is connected, you can choose to use the device as a drive.  Click on the iPod's name in the side menu, and on the main screen you should have an option to "Enable Disk Use".  

In Windows, it then shows up as an external disk: I imagine it does the same on a Mac.  Give that a go :-)


MAX controlling iPod?