Yet Another iPod Question

[JoeHill]

Jason Shein wrote: 

> On Monday 03 March 2008 08:42:05 pm Moniz Family wrote:
> > All of the songs diasappeared from the ipod. However, they were all
> > visible and playable with Amarok and gtkpod. If I added or removed a
> > song with one player, the change would show up on the other. But nothing
> > in the ipod. The usage reading in the ipod was showing "Other" as being
> > used, but not "Audio". I deleted all of the songs and the usage of
> > "other" went way down. The songs were there, but not registered as an
> > Audio file.
> >
> > I figure the itunes database must have gotten corrupted.  
> 
> That is correct. This is the issue I found when working with the new iPods. 
> The color of the ipod determines some type of encoding for the database, 
> which is why the proper color must be chosen in order to work. When I use my 
> daughters 8gb iPod nano ( green ) with gtkpod, and choose the only 8gb option 
> available ( silver ) it corrupts the database every time, and needs to be 
> wiped by iTunes.

Each ipod colour has a designation, yes, so of course it won't work. However,
perhaps because I am actually using an up to date gtkpod and libgpod, I do have
entries for the 8GB in green, blue, red, black, and sllver :-)

Is this thing on? ;)

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