gtkpod issues

[JoeHill]

Kareem Shehata wrote: 

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf 
> > Of JoeHill
> > Sent: Wednesday 03 October 2007 02:01
> > To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> > Subject: Re: [TLUG]: gtkpod issues
> > 
> > JoeHill wrote: 
> >   
> > > I'm trying load tracks onto my ancient iPod shuffle (512MB) using 
> > > gtkpod, but for some reason the way gtkpod is doing this I   
> > cannot access all of the songs.  
> > > 
> > > From what I can see, gtkpod is taking the 72 songs I am   
> > trying to load   
> > > and dividing them up into groups of 24. The problem with   
> > this is I can   
> > > only listen to the first 24 songs, and then it just   
> > repeats. The other   
> > > 48 are apparently inaccessible.
> > > 
> > > Is there some way to tell gtkpod _not_ to do this? It's highly 
> > > annoying, and the device is essentially useless to me this way.  
> > 
> > Scratch that, not sure what the issue was, but it's gone away 
> > now. All of the songs played in sequence later on.  
> 
> Yup, that pretty much sums up my experiences with gtkpod.  Have you tried
> YamiPod?  I'm using the Windows version currently, but it seems to be
> considerably better so far.

Doesn't appear to be any Ubuntu packages, but it does look pretty cool. I'll
try building it later on. That's another annoyance, is that my main desktop has
the USB ports kinda recessed into the front just enough that I can't plug my
Shuffle in. I have to plug it into one of my other machines (the one running
Ubuntu) then VNC in.

Thanks for the tip :)

-- 
JoeHill
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