Yet Another iPod Question

[John Moniz]

Jason Shein wrote:
> As per the documentation, at least one song needs to be transferred to the 
> iPod prior to using Floola.
>
> I personally prefer gtkpod, but it only works for certain colours and size 
> combinations of the iPod nano. Of the 8gb models, only the silver version is 
> supported due to device IDs.
>
> If you attempt to attach gtkpd to an unsupported nano, it trashes the 
> database, and requires a repair using iTunes. ( as I found out )
>
>
> Floola works great for videos, mp3. and cover art on my daughters ( green 8GB 
> nano )
Thanks Jason. I went looking for places where I could get an 8gb silver 
iPod and found a few. Unfortunately, I got stuck out of town and had my 
wife and daughter go out to get one. The nice man at the store convinced 
them that there was no difference, so they came back with a black 3rd 
gen nano.

First I set up the iPod with iTunes to make sure it was working OK. 
After a few songs were installed, I plugged it in to a linux PC. I could 
tell that the device was recognized from dmesg, but it would not mount 
itself to /media/ipod, which is where my son's iPod classic video mounts 
to on my machine. I tried creating the needed directory, setting the 
permissions and mounting it manually, but the permissions reset 
themselves to root and none of the players can use it. Amarock gives an 
error that it cannot write the lock file to the device because of denied 
permission. gtkpod was hopeless.

I installed floola, but it crashes with exception errors every time I 
try to do anything at all with it.

This is my daughter's iPod and she has a newer ubuntu just recently 
installed. I'll try there all over again, but it won't be until tomorrow 
when I take her back to school. There are some posts on the ubuntu forum 
that claim the nano 3G problem has been resolved, I just hope it 
includes the mounting problem I'm having.

It would be nice to know if anyone's iPod nano (3rd gen) mounts itself 
properly upon plugging in.

Thanks,

John.


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