Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee 0.11 ipod problem

["Gregoire Gentil" <gregoire gentil com>]

Title: Message

Yes, I read about this: http://abock.org/2006/09/14/we-need-you-and-apple-sucks-part-2/. But in any case, to my mind, it's up to Banshee to adapt itself to iPod - not sure that Steve Jobs really cares about Banshee. ;-)

 

My iPod shows now in its About dialog menu:

GNUpod 0.98.3

Version 1.0.1

Model MA487LL
Format: Windows

 

The iPod has never been reinstalled and it has never plugged into a Windows system. The disk was originally formatted in FAT and I did all what is written below.

 

Note that the GNUpod format is perhaps the problem. I begin to guess that Banshee really needs an Apple iTunesDB. If there is no DB or written with another standard, it fails. Could my assumption be correct?

 

 

Grégoire

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Philmon [mailto:mattisking gmail com]
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 12:35 AM
To: banshee-list gnome org; gregoire gentil com
Subject: Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee 0.11 ipod problem

Perhaps this is a bit daft... but just in case, is it possible the newest iPod's came without the newest firmware? Have you checked to see your new iPod is running the latest and greatest firmware? The reason being that some things have changed in libipoddevice to deal with recent changes to the firmware. I'm just stabbing in the dark of course. Other's might have better suggestions.

Matt

On 9/24/06, Gregoire Gentil <gregoire gentil com> wrote:

I'm trying to sync a brand new ipod nano with Banshee 0.11. It's not
working. Can anyone help to debug this situation. Here is more
information:

- It's a brand new 4GB ipod nano bought in the US last week.
- I have Banshee 0.11, libipoddevice 0.5 and ipod-sharp 0.6.2 on Gentoo
with kernel 2.6.17.
- The iPod is automatically mounted by the system on /media/usbdisk
(vfat type).
- Initially, /media/usbdisk/iPod_Control/iTunes only contained firsttime
(not iTunesDB file)
- When launching Banshee, the iPod icon appears and when accessing its
properties, the size of the iPod and the size of the content is reported
well.
- When trying to import the iPod, CPU goes at 100% for 4 seconds and
then vanishes. Nothing happens. Import continues for ever.
- I then tried gtkpod. Gtkpod complained about not finding iTunesDB.
Perhaps I didn't configure gtkpod well.
- I then tried gnupod. Perl scripts enabled me to create an empty
iTunesDB file.
- Then back to gtkpod with more configuration, everything worked fine. I
was able to read the iPod and sync mp3 files from and to the iPod.
- Then back to Banshee, I still have the problem of eternal import.

Anyone has an idea what's the problem and how to debug? Many thanks by
advance,

Gregoire

PS: I can tar the content of my ipod nano and put it on a website if it
can help.


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