On Saturday, November 05, 2011 04:48:54 AM Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Joost Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > > On Friday, November 04, 2011 06:03:55 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > >> 2011/11/4 Jorge Martínez López <jorg...@gmail.com>: > >> > Did you install app-pda/ifuse and app-pda/libimobiledevice > >> > (dependency > >> > of ifuse and gtkpod)?. I do not recall touching any udev rule. > >> > > >> > Greetings, > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Jorge Martínez López <jorg...@gmail.com> http://www.jorgeml.net > >> > Google Talk / XMPP: jorg...@gmail.com > >> > >> Hi Jorge, > >> Thanks for the ifuse idea. ifuse /mnt/ipod does seem to get the > >> device mounted. However just poking around in the /mnt/ipod directory > >> isn't very clear by itself about how music (and one day hopefully > >> videos) are stored. Maybe I can find some info somewhere to help with > >> that if necessary. > >> > >> Even with the device mounted it doesn't seem to be visible to > >> gtkpod, and there aren't any new USB disk messages in dmesg. Just a > >> single ifuse message is all that's added. > >> > >> Well, at least I can sort of communicate with the ipod even if I > >> cannot do anything interesting yet. > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> - Mark > > > > Mark, > > > > I haven't played with my iPod touch yet, but the "older" models all > > worked with gtkpod. > > You might need to tell gtkpod to "open" the ipod by pointing it where it > > is mounted. > > > > Menu: "Edit" -> "Repository/iPod Options" > > Then click on "Add new repository/iPod" and fill in the details for your > > iPod. (The backup-file is in my home-dir on my desktop for mine) > > > > Any files you manually copy to the iPod will NOT be picked up as a > > database file needs to be updated as well. > > > > Apple also has this annoying tendency to change the DB-structure for > > every version and gtkpod needs to have specific support for your model > > for it to work. > > > > -- > > Joost > > Hi Joost, > Ah...insomnia...a great excuse for playing with computers and > answering emails... ;-) > > I had the same idea about telling gtkpod to use this specific iPod > when I started with this, but as best I can tell so far gtkpod won't > see the iPod unless it shows up in dmesg as a USB disk drive. I > believe I read that on their Wiki and was going to try and find the > link at www.gtkpod.org to verify that but the web site isn't > responding right now. I'll double check that later.
Maybe for auto-detection, but the first time I played with gtkpod, I had problems auto-mounting usb-devices and always did the mounting as root. Telling gtkpod where the iPod was mounted was sufficient. > The iPod she has is a First Generation version. It won't run iOS > more recent that 3.x so she cannot get any of the newer features with > iOS5 like NetFlix movies. (At least as far as I can tell so far. I > haven't checked that out very much yet.) I never did, my previous employer had a tendency to give out new iPods each year. Not sure if they still do, I would have preferred something more usefull, like an eReader. > My real need here is pretty small. I was trying to find something > nice for my wife 'cause she's been doing nice things for me, but > there's no rush on this. My personal interest was really because I've > got a Kindle Fire coming in a couple of weeks which I want to use to > watch movies when I'm donating blood. (I do that a lot because my > blood is pretty unique.) Anyway, I figured out Handbrake for ripping > my DVD collection and was going to use the iPod to test the video > playback. Anyway, I can probably do that from a Windows VM, or worst > case boot my laptop into Windows and do it native if required. Virtualbox has decent USB-pass-through support. Even quite high performance. > Thanks for your help. I do appreciate it.
