Finally, conquering the .ithmb file

18 09 2008
I have one .ithmb file copied from ratugalak's ipod months ago. This file was an 'unfinished business', left over from a quick tinkering session when i tried to use Linux to read/write ratugalak's 6th gen iPod Classic.

The original intent was copying photos from iPod to Linux (Ubuntu Edgy). I tried gtkpod, gpixpod and few other application, but all failed. Apparently the 6th gen was not yet supported at that time. Linux was able to access and read iPod's filesystem, but unable to 'translate' ithmb files as graphic files. So, after quick observation (and little checking with file and strings), i copied the biggest .ithmb file to my harddisk, promising myself that i'll read the contents of this file someday. Using Linux!

The victory day finally come! After a day of unproductive activity (procrastination, blogwalking, yada-yada), I stumbled upon a forum thread, discussing very same problem i have: How to read .ithmb file (this thread starter is using Windows though). The answer : use iThmbConv.exe. This windows command line app (ha!) will read .ithmb file and translate it into .ppm files.

So, i downloaded the .exe file and ran it with wine. The result: 759 .ppm files extracted from a 500MB .ithmb file. Problem solved, at last :-).
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