fysh is a small perl script I wrote to handle all the tasks associated with my ipod shuffle under Linux. Its name fysh stands for "fill your shuffle".
Releases and release notes
25-Mar-2007 - fysh 0.6
In this release: Fixed child processes return code and error detection. Command line options (--faac, --flac, --sox) and environment variables (FYSH_FAAC, FYSH_FLAC, FYSH_SOX) to specify faac, flac and sox executables. Much more silent commands and a start at a progress indicator. New option --no-remove to forbid fysh to remove files on the iPod. Handle iPod full case much more gracefully. More for developpers: A bit more elaborate debug messages. A start at an estimator package, for compressed size estimation (not functional yet, though).
4-Mar-2007 - fysh 0.5
This release moves files to ipod in the top-level process to avoid fragmentation and "clicks" believed to be caused by it at playback (it solved the problem for me at least). It also adds support to turn on/off debug messages. It adds a caching mechanism to avoid re-encoding tracks again and again. Signal handling is better than before when hitting ctrl-c for example. And running jobs are killed on exit. Support for a normalization threshold has been implemented, to avoid touching the sound when the volume is acceptable. Executables checking has been bugfixed: fysh now stops when some necessary commands are missing. New command line options: --cache-dir, --debug, --normalize-threshold and --no-random.
8-Feb-2007 - fysh 0.4
This release adds support for multiple, parallel encoding (especially useful for SMP). There is a new --max-jobs option to control it. Encoding error handling has been improved a bit, and can be relied on to detect when a device is full. The option --no-rebuild-db has been added. A logo has been added here and there.
22-Jan-2007 - fysh 0.3
There is a new option --ipod-music-dir. You can pass options to rebuild_db.py. faac options are no longer hard-coded. This release avoids re-selecting recently removed entries for refill. The option --dont-normalize has been added. This release can take options from a .fyshrc file.
15-Jan-2007 - fysh 0.2
This release uses wget to retrieve rebuild_db.py when not installed. The option --handle-mount has been renamed to --mount to avoid collision with -h. More documentation and many more todo items have been added.
13-Jan-2007 - fysh 0.1
Initial freshmeat announcement.