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Copying files from music folder to rockbox with rsync

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rsync --ignore-existing -v -P -r -h itunes /Volumes/IPOD/Music

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johnnyshankman commented Jan 15, 2025 •

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for putting it on some Untitled sd card:

Puts an "itunes" folder in the Music folder (I use this personally)

rsync --ignore-existing -vPrh itunes /Volumes/Untitled/Music

Takes everything in the itunes folder, puts it in the destination itunes folder root level (no new folder named itunes copied)

rsync --ignore-existing -vPrh itunes/ /Volumes/Untitled/Music/itunes

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johnnyshankman commented Feb 6, 2025 •

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don't forget to run rockbox utility app using sudo from the CLI when installing rockbox instead of double clicking on the app icon.

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johnnyshankman commented Dec 29, 2025 •

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Example of a mirror sync (dangerous!) where orphaned/deleted files in the source are also deleted on the destination:

rsync -av --delete itunes/ /Volumes/IPOD/Music/itunes/

⚠️ This would delete anything in the destination that isn’t in the source.
⚠️ Can take hours with 1000s of songs

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