Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee 0.11 ipod problem

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

What distro are you running? What is the output of:

hal-device | grep WriteIpodInfo

With your iPod plugged in. Also, when you built Banshee, are you sure
that iPod support was actually enabled? It sounds like the USB mass
storage support may actually be taking over.

--Aaron

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 09:12 -0400, Gregoire Gentil wrote:
> Interesting: Ipod --list failed because libgtop was not installed. After
> installing libgtop, ipod reports:
> 
> ipod --list
> glibtop: This machine has 1 CPUs, 1 are being monitored.
> 
> (process:29964): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_ascii_strtoull: assertion `nptr !=
> NULL' failed
> Path Info
>    Device Path:      /dev/sda2
>    Mount Point:      /media/usbdisk
>    Control Path:     /media/usbdisk/iPod_Control/
>    HAL ID:
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part2_size_3948134400
> Device Info
>    Model Number:     (null)
>    Device Model:     Unknown
>    iPod Generation:  Unknown
>    Adv. Capacity:    (null)
>    Is New:           YES
>    Writable:         YES
>    Serial Number:    (null)
>    Firmware Version: (null)
>    Manufacturer ID:
>    Production Year:  0000
>    Production Week:  00
>    Production Index: 0
> Volume Info
>    Volume Size:      3948134400
>    Volume Used:      74760192
>    Available         3873374208
>    UUID:             (null)
>    Label
> User-Provided Info
>    Device Name:      (null)
>    User Name:        (null)
>    Host Name:        (null)
> 
> 
> Note that behavior in Banshee is still the same even after the
> installation of libgtop. Ipod is recognized, the icon appears, size of
> content is correctly reported but importing the ipod continues for ever
> without getting anything, Any other idea how to debug?
> 
> Many thanks by advance,
> 
> Gr�ire
> 
> 
> PS: My comment was not aggressive. I understand your point and I agree
> about open standard, and it's unfortunate that it's wishful thinking
> both for Microsoft and Apple.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Aaron Bockover [mailto:abockover novell com] 
> > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:41 AM
> > To: banshee-list gnome org; gregoire gentil com
> > Cc: 'Matt Philmon'
> > Subject: Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee 0.11 ipod problem
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 00:49 -0400, Gregoire Gentil wrote:
> > > 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. ;-)
> > 
> > Wow, you completely did not get my point. Of course we adapt. 
> > We already
> > have adapted. It took only a few days from that post. Our 
> > adaptation was
> > in Banshee 0.11.0, libipoddevice 0.5.0, and ipod-sharp 0.6.2. My point
> > is simply that it's unfortunate things have to be this way 
> > instead of, I
> > don't know, an open standard - wishful thinking.
> > 
> > Does "ipod --list" show anything?
> > 
> > --Aaron
> > 
> >  
> > > 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?
> > >  
> > >  
> 
>