Re: [Banshee-List] Seems like Banshee ruined my iPod...

[ericyzfr1 <eparent67 socal rr com>]

I have the same ipod, I only use Gtkpod for the pictures and Banshee for
Music, Video and Podcasts. As far as synchronizing, you have to make sure
that your music library is in perfect or it will not synchronize properly
and the artwork will not display the right cover. I found that after adding
and reorganizing the music library the file BansheeDB (hidden file) and the
Artwork DB on the Ipod, these files tend to grow out of proportion. For the
BansheeDB file, I simply delete it restart Banshee and rescan my
library...Since it will also take all the Podcasts subscriptions and
playlists away I have a separate file for these only that I can restore
easily.
For your ipod, I found this thread on the ubuntu forum to restore your Ipod
to factory settings, it is very easy and actually does not require Amarok.
Just restart Banshee and your Ipod is like brand new.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=804761


TLHN wrote:
> 
> 
> TLHN wrote:
>> 
>> So I switched to Linux.
>> 
>> The only thing I kind of missed was iTunes but I had faith in the good
>> people of the open source community so I tried Banshee.
>> 
>> I plugged my iPod Classic 6th Generation 120 Gb in. Banshee told me that
>> the device had to be rebuilt in order to work properly with other
>> programs than iTunes. OK - I thought, so I went ahead.
>> 
>> It went well, I only lost all my album art and playlists from iTunes,
>> everything was still there and working properly.
>> 
>> However, I still had all my music on my computer and I didn't feel like
>> messing things up by duplicating every single song by synchronizing the
>> ipod with my library on Banshee so I deleted all the music from my iPod
>> (the music I once added with iTunes). Then I synchronized the iPod with
>> Banshee.
>> 
>> At first it looked as if it went fine, all the music was there according
>> to Banshee. But when i unplugged the iPod and took a look in the menues I
>> apparently only had 20 songs... which seemed very odd since I was very
>> sure that I syncronized as many as 5041 songs!
>> 
>> So I plugged it back in and went back to Banshee, and now I apparently
>> had 15 Gb of "other" files, and of course these damn 20 songs.
>> 
>> I tried to get rid of those other files in every possible way, using
>> every possible program om Linux but just couldn't access them. So I
>> digged up my family tomb to get this old laptop with windows and a very
>> scary poltergeist to rebuild my ipod with iTunes and get rid of all the
>> shit I now apparently had on it.
>> 
>> But that failed, iTunes said it couldn't restore the iPod because it had
>> files on it from other programs.
>> 
>> To summon the whole story; I cannot synchronize properly with Banshee and
>> I have no idea how to get rid of all these "other" files. If anybody has
>> any idea about how to fix this don't hesitate to tell me!
>> 
> 
> 
> Okey, so I managed to remove those "other" files with Gtkpod by "checking"
> the ipod for "abandoned" files (or whatever it's called on your
> non-swedish versions of Gtkpod).
> 
> And then I managed to restore and reset the iPod using iTunes on my
> friend's Mac. However now I am back at square one again... I'm starting to
> suspect that my iPod Classic 6th Generation 120 Gb isn't compatible with
> Linux at all, which really sucks because I really love it, it's in pretty
> good shape and it cost a lot of money for a poor student as myself.
> 
> Am I correct?
> 

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