Yet Another iPod Question

[Moniz Family]

JoeHill wrote:
> John Moniz wrote: 
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Use whatever mount point your system creates for it, if there is one. It does
> not have to use /media/ipod. Mine, for example, is /mnt/BORG. This can then be
> set in the preferences of whatever you decide to use, ie. Amarok or GTKPod.
>
> From what I've seen from the people at libgpod/gtkpod, any ipod or nano there is
> should work just fine with libgpod 0.6.0, including the ipod touch and iphone.
> libgpod is the basis for either Amarok or gtkpod to work, and as I say, it
> should not matter what mount point your system assigns to the device. If your
> system is not assigning any mount point, the problem is more than the colour of
> the nano or the app you're using.
>   
The problem I had (FC4 and Ubuntu 6.06) was that the ipod was not 
creating a mount point at all. However, it seems to be fixed in newer 
versions. It was OK with my daughter's Ubunty 7.10. When I manually 
created a mount point, the permissions would default to root (after 
mounting), it wouldn't let me change it, and as a result the ipod was 
not accessible by any player.

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