gtkpod on ubuntu

[Christopher Aitken]

Top-post update as this thread is old now: In ubuntu, gtkpod keeps 
displaying the contents of the iPod, but the iPod keeps displaying "No 
Music".

JoeHill wrote:
> chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote: 
>
>   
>> Jamon Camisso writes: 
>>
>>     
>>> On December 10, 2007 06:44:53 pm chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:  
>>>       
>>>> JoeHill writes:  
>>>>         
>>>>> chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:  
>>>>>           
>>>>>> I don't know whether I'm supposed to go through the whole svn
>>>>>> installation of libgpod (and the other stuff that I did that I
>>>>>> can't retrace until I re-install Thunderbird on and load the saved
>>>>>> mail file from backup) or if the process will be different on
>>>>>> ubuntu.  
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Told ya it wouldn't be long, just saw this on #gtkpod :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
>>>>>
>>>>> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ipod-touch/ubuntu gutsy main
>>>>>           
Okay, that line is in there.
>>>>> then:
>>>>>
>>>>> sudo apt-get update
>>>>>           
Done.
>>>>> then install libgpod3 and gtkpod, you should be golden.   
>>>>>           
Done - and I saw the name of the repo I listed in the output.
>>>> Okay, I did all of that. The songs that are on the iPod are showing
>>>> up in gtkpod, but trying to save an .ogg to the iPod I get:
>>>>         
>>>> Conversion of Track2 failed:
>>>> '/usr/share/gtkpod/scripts/convert-ogg2mp3.sh' returned exit status
>>>> 4. 
>>>>         
Conversion is not an issue now as I installed lame and gstreamer and 
they sem to give mp3 functionality to all my apps.
>>>> Am I still missing some library or whatnot? I'm suing ubuntu 7.10.  
>>>>         
>>> I sent a message about installing vorbis-tools, which provides the 
>>> oggdec binary, which if missing, will throw that "exit status 4" error. 
>>>
>>> Try running "which oggdec" and if it does not find anything, install the 
>>> vorbis-tools package.  
>>>       
>> Yeah, I installed that before I got the error. apt-get install vorbis-tools. 
>> Funny you should mention that. I actually installed it to support an 
>> application called audio-convert.That app is working for me. I noticed that 
>> gtkpod does not have the iPod that is mine - it was called iPod nano 4 GB 
>> video (or close to that) when we did the svn installs (et al) on the fedora 
>> 7 machine (before the hard drive died). I probably have to do all that svn 
>> stuff again - no? 
>>     
>
> No, if you installed the gtkpod and libgpod from the ppa repo, that should do
> it. The only thing missing from the libgpod you installed is the ability to get
> the firewire ID of the Nano. You will need to do it manually, but it's not that
> difficult. From the libgpod README.sysinfo:
>
> "The 2nd method requires more manual intervention. First, you need to get your
> firewire id manually. To do that, run "sudo lsusb -v | grep -i Serial" (without
> the "") 
Okay, I got the firewire ID.
> with your iPod plugged in, this should print a 16 character long string
> like 00A1234567891231. For an iPod Touch, this number will be much longer than
> 16 characters, the firewire ID is constituted by the first 16 characters.
> Once you have that number, create/edit /mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/Device/SysInfo 
> (if your iPod is mounted at /mnt/ipod). Add to that file the line below:
> FirewireGuid: 0xffffffffffffffff
> (replace ffffffffffffffff with the string you obtained at the previous step
> and don't forget the trailing 0x before the string)
> Save that file, and you should be all set.
Done - actually the correct ID was already in there.
>  Be careful when using apps which 
> lets you manually specify which iPod model you own, they may overwrite that 
> file when you do that. 
That may be my problem now.
> So if after doing that libgpod still seems to write 
> invalid content to the iPod, double-check the content of that SysInfo file to
> make sure the FirewireGuid line you added isn't gone. If that happens, readd it
> to the end of the file, 
Yeah it's still there - it's persisting.
> and make sure libgpod rewrite the iPod content."
>   
How do I do that - by re-installing libgpod? Or do you mean gtkpod?

Chris

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