iPod Nano

[JoeHill]

Chris Aitken wrote: 

> JoeHill wrote:
> > Chris Aitken wrote: 
> >
> >     
> >> For Christmas, my daughter is ready for something a little more 
> >> sophisticated than Bratz. I have my eye on the iPod Nano.
> >>       
> >
> > Chris, if this is one of the new Nanos (what I've seen referred to as the
> > 'fat' Nano...), you might want to skip installing gtkpod or amarok from
> > packages and go right to installing from Subversion as I have done.  
> I've already installed amarok with yum install amarok. Do I re-install 
> that using subverison?

From what I gather, Amarok uses gtkpod and/or libgpod to work with the iPod.
You need to install those anyway, then you can see if Amarok works. If not,
then you can install a newer Amarok. GTKPod is pretty good, though.
 
> > The newer devices from
> > Apple use an iTunes database that cannot be read by gtkpod or libgpod (which
> > Amarok uses) release versions. Only the Subversion code for gtkpod and
> > libgpod will work.
> >     
> Interesting. I was able to get amarok to think it had uploaded songs to 
> the iPod - but there is still nothing in the iPod menu except "no songs".

Exactly what happened to me. Well, actually, mine started freezing and
rebooting, but I think that's because I first loaded it from iTunes and then
gtkpod (the old one) which totally fuxored the iTunesdb. I reset the device
using iTunes, and have only used gtkpod since, and all is very very well.

> > Don't be intimidated, installing from SVN is not that difficult, in fact it
> > should be a lot easier to do than what you are going through with Yum ;)
> >
> > I posted instructions on how to install from SVN in the thread 'iPod Video'.
> >
> >     
> I didn't keep those posts. Can you re-send?

One thing, before you start in on this: if you installed Amarok, it probably
brought gtkpod and libgpod with it. Before you install the svn of those two,
you should first remove the RPM's for gtkpod and libgpod.

This is the way I did it:

0. Install libmp4v2-devel so that gtkpod is build with support for...well, mp4.

1. Grab libgpod svn:

svn co https://gtkpod.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gtkpod/libgpod/trunk libgpod

*Important* read the README.sysinfo file and follow the instructions.

...then build and install the usual way* (I used ./configure --prefix=/usr)

2. Grab gtkpod svn:

svn co https://gtkpod.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gtkpod/gtkpod/trunk gtkpod

...and build and install the usual way.

* run './autogen.sh', then './configure prefix=/usr', then 'make', then 'su' and
'make install'.

Autogen and configure will check to see if you have the necessary bits to build
the software. If you don't, it will usually tell you exactly what you need to
install. This can be...frustrating...on non-Debian systems, but it's not that
bad. I used to just keep my package manager open while I was building stuff, so
that if the ./configure script complained about missing libblahblah I could
just jump over and install the -devel package. The good thing is, once you've
got it working, you can 'svn up' whenever a new feature is added to gtkpod or
libgpod.

-- 
JoeHill
++++++++++++++++++++
 Bender: Grab a shovel. I'm only one skull short of a Mousketeer reunion.
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