Podsleuth is a tool to discover detailed model information about an apple (tm) ipod (tm). its primary role is to be run as a callout by hal because root access is needed to scan the device for required information. when the model information is discovered, it is merged into hal as properties for other applications to use.

with podsleuth installed, applications can expect to have rich ipod (tm) metadata merged into the device tree on the ipod data volume node. podsleuth metadata properties are in the org.banshee-project.podsleuth namespace.