iPod Nano

[JoeHill]

Lennart Sorensen wrote: 

> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 12:21:54PM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> > So, nano plays mp4's not mp3's?  
> 
> mp4 = MPEG4 videos.  mp3 = MPEG1/2 layer 3 audio.
> 
> > 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:
> > 
> > [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".
> > 
> > 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?  
> 
> They are probably on there, but not in the playlist file, so it doesn't
> know they are there.  After all ipods are also able to be used as usb
> keys/external storage drives, so the ipod doesn't have to know about
> everything that is on it.

That's it exactly, for the moment. Current releases of libgpod and therefore
Amarok etc. cannot read or write to the itunesdb. The files get transferred,
but the ipod doesn't know they are there.

Everything is fixed in svn though, hence Mr. Aitken's current project :)

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JoeHill
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