Scripting the iPod

Sunday, February 10, 2008 by Dave Winer.

A Sunday morning exploration... 

I want to write a script to move podcasts from my Mac hard disk to my New Podcasts playlist on my iPod. 

More simply: A script to add an MP3 file to a playlist on an iPod. If it has to go through iTunes, so be it. It must be relatively simple and reliable. 

I can write the script in AppleScript, but I'd prefer to write it in UserTalk so that porting to Windows (if possible) won't be a completely new project.  

Update #1: I found this tool from Peter Breuls. (It doesn't contain any code for copying to an iPod.) 

Update #2: This 2003 post from Adam Curry mentions a script created by "Marcus" that does what I want.