Hello, Pieter! On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 21:59 +0200, Pieter De Decker wrote: > You might want to read these articles: > http://cybernetnews.com/2007/09/17/new-ipods-dont-support-linux-and-winamp/ > http://ipodminusitunes.blogspot.com/2007/09/weve-won.html > > It appears that Apple tries to prevent Linux users from accessing > their iPod. Hackers found a way around the Linux block though. Will > this hack allow me to access the new iPods with gPodder?
gPodder uses libgpod (or more exactly, gpod's Python bindings) to access the iPod. As soon as libgpod supports the checksum generation (from what I just read on the 'net, it's just a matter of querying a device ID [using libusb, maybe??] and then generating a checksum of it and writing it to the iTunesDB). For now, you should be able to normally use gPodder and then follow the manual procedure found here: http://www.backdot.com/?p=50 As soon as the libgpod guys implement the checksum generating code in their library (and distributions ship new libgpod versions, etc..), gPodder should work with the new iPods just as well as it does with the older iPods. You can always ask about when the checksum generating code will be ready on the gtkpod/libgpod development mailing lists, the URLs and addresses can be found on this page: http://www.gtkpod.org/contact.html I'm still happily using my several years old iPod mini, without problems :) Thomas _______________________________________________ gpodder-devel mailing list gpodder-devel@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel
