Re: [Banshee-List] iPod Touch

["Roderich Schupp" <roderich schupp googlemail com>]

2008/3/31 Maxime Normand <maxime normand gmail com>:
> I pretty sure the iPod Touch doesn't work with any media player in linux,
> except if you follow this lengthy guide:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices/iPhone
>
> Which I did with no success... guess we have to wait a little more before
> for this encryption gets broken in a simpler way.

It's not an encryption problem. iPhone and iPod touch simply do not connect as
USB mass storage devices anymore. They advertise different USB profiles
(one of which is a PTP interface, that's why it's detected as a "camera"),
but none of them has a mass storage interface. iTunes (on Windows)
talks to the device via a proprietary protocol (that's the Apple media service
daemon or sum such). But the on-disk structure of the music storage
seems the same, so in theory Banshee or any other Linux media player
would work _if you can get to the iPhone's disk at all_. Note that most of
the stuff in the above URL isn't concerned with the Linux side at all -
it describes, how to jailbreak your iPhone so that you can install an sshd
server and export its disk  via ssh over WLAN.

Cheers, Roderich