Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Writing to iPod

["John Russell" <jjrussell gmail com>]

To test to see if most of this stuff is working, if you plug in a usb
key and nautilus pops up and/or something new shows up in the drive
mount applet, then I think everything right up until libipoddevice is
probably working ok. Just to narrow it down

On 12/5/06, Peter Colijn <caffeine colijn ca> wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> Whereas gtkpod uses a very simple model where you have to manually
> figure stuff out and mount your iPod somewhere, there are actually a
> lot of moving pieces required to get the iPod working seamlessly with
> Rhythmbox. HAL, dbus, gnome-volume-manager, pmount and libipoddevice
> all need to work together. If any piece breaks, the whole thing
> doesn't work.
>
> That said, try some of the stuff suggested here:
> http://banshee-project.org/Troubleshooting/iPod
>
> [yes, it's for Banshee, but both Banshee and Rhythmbox use largely the
> same infrastructure to talk to iPods]
>
> One thing that bit me the first time I tried was that I was not in the
> 'plugdev' group. You might look into that.
>
> Have fun,
> Peter
>
> On 12/4/06, Jason Bodnar <jason shakabuku org> wrote:
> > I have a new iPod shuffle (the clip kind, I think it's considered a sixth
> > generation iPod). I can successfully transfer mp3s to it using gtkpod (though
> > it's not very intuitive), but for
> > the life of me I can't figure out how to do it with Rhythmbox.
> >
> > I'm using rhythmbox 9.6 (Fedora Development rpm: rhythmbox-0.9.6-3.fc7). rb
> > 9.6 is supposed to have ipod writing on by default so I've looked at the rpm
> > spec file and it configures the build as so:
> >
> > %configure \
> >         --with-ipod \
> >         --with-dbus \
> >         --with-mdns=avahi \
> >         --disable-scrollkeeper \
> >         --enable-tag-writing
> >
> > So that should all that's needed to copy tracks to an iPod, correct? So, what
> > am I missing? I've tried dragging artists, albums and highlighted tracks to
> > the iPod icon in the left panel, but the dragged icon just retreats back to
> > its origin. I've tried Edit-> Copy but Paste is deactivated when I then select
> > the iPod. Am I doing something wrong? Is it possible that iPod writing is not
> > turned on for this rpm version of rb? Is there an easy way for me to check that?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Jason
> >
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