iPod Nano

[Chris Aitken]

JoeHill wrote:
> Chris Aitken wrote: 
>
>   
<snip>
>> So, nano plays mp4's not mp3's?
>>     
>
> Both, mp3 audio and mp4 video. On my classic I've been going kinda nuts, I've
> got two seasons of Futurama, one season of Venture Bros, and two seasons of
> Rescue Me. 
I think Futurama is that Matt Groening space cartoon, but the other two 
I don't know. We don't have cable TV - I've been told Bruce Springsteen 
wrote a song, "57 Channels and Nothin' On" - that sums up my attitude 
toward TV. Does your kid make her own Kraft Dinner while you're doing 
all this?

:)

> It's nice having 80GB 8-)
>   
It's tough keeping up with the Joneses.
>  
>   
>> I uninstalled and re-installed pirut (Add/Remove Programs) and grabbed 
>> gtkpod that way. I figured that pirut would solve dependencies that way. 
>> I typed 'gtkpod' and the application opened. So, does that change 
>> anything or should I still complete your steps? Maybe when I got pirut 
>> to install gtkpod it brought with it the correct libgtk+, thought rpm 
>> does not indicate this:
>>     
>
> No, you need the gtk2-devel package. Craig left some instructions in reply to
> one of my other posts, they should let you find the exact package you need.
> He's using Fedora too, so it should be gtk2-devel. Then try and build gtkpod
> again.
>   
OKay, I'm in the middle of that now.
>  
>   
>> [root at p733 chris]# rpm -q libgtk+
>> package libgtk+ is not installed
>>
>> Of course I couldn't resist trying gtkpod. You are right - it is a much 
>> easier interface than amarok. However, I got the same problem - the 
>> application (this time gtkpod instead of amarok) thinks it uploaded an 
>> .mp3 to the iPod, but the iPod does not list it - again, "no songs".
>>     
>
> Amarok still doesn't have the ability to use the new iTunesdb.
>   
Okay, though I was talking about /gtkpod/ here, not amarok - I'm having 
the same problem with both - the app thinks it loaded the song to the 
iPod but the iPod begs to differ.
>  
>   
>> So, do I carry on with your steps (I would be at the gtk/gtk2/gtk+ 
>> finding/installing phase) or do I install ffmpeg to convert mp3's to 
>> mp4's and then load them on the iPod vian gtkpod? Again, I now have 
>> gtkpod, it thinks it loads .mp3's on teh iPod, but the iPod does not agree?
>>     
>
> You can't use the gtkpod from packages, you need to install the svn version you
> downloaded (the one that needs gtk2-devel to build).
Rats, there I go havin' ta lurn stuff agin!
>  Sorry for the confusion
> about mp3 vs. mp4, I'm getting excited, you're almost there.
>   
You and I both.
> So, just to recap:
>
> Install gtk2-devel
>
> To build gtkpod, run ./autogen.sh, ./configure --prefix=/usr, make, and if it
> completes do make install.
>   
Yup, I'm working through that now.

Chris

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