Smart Playlists and Song Rating

I saw over at the gtkPod (linux ipod) site that they've figured out the 
song count and song rating stuff in the iTunesDB

--quote:

Structure of play count files:

Offset     Meaning
0x00-03    "mhdp": header identifier
0x04-07    0x60: length of header
0x08-0b    0x10 or 0x0c: size of one entry in bytes
	   (one entry is one song, 0x10 is for 2.0 firmware, 0x0c is
	   for 1.3 firmware)
0x0c-0f    number of entries (songs on iPod)
0x10-5f    0x00: dummy space

Structure of each entry

Entries start at 0x60 (or whatever is written in offxet 0x04 above)
and are of length 0x10 (2.0 firmware) or 0x0c (1.3 firmware)

Offset     Meaning
0x00-0x03  number of times song has been played
0x04-0x07  mac-timestamp (number of seconds since GMT 0:00 1-Jan-1904)
            subtract 2,082,844,800 seconds to obtain Unix timestamp
	   (number of seconds since GMT 0:00 1-Jan-1970)
0x08-0x0b  0x00 ???
0x0c-0x0f  star rating * 0x14 (only available with 2.0 firmware)

--end quote

Can we hope to have access to this functionality in the next release of 
ephpod?  Maybe not as full of an implementation as iTunes has, but at 
least the ability to have a "recently played" playlist and to 
sort/manually create a playlist by star rating would be great.



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