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tjscollins
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 Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 5:57 pm Post subject: Amarok won't detect iPod as iPod |
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| For some reason Amarok 2.3.2 (on KDE 4.6.2) refuses to recognize my iPod as an iPod, and instead treats it as just another mass storage device. This renders it useless, since music transferred to it this way isn't added to the iPod's database, and so cannot be replayed on the iPod. Gtkpod on the other hand seems to work fine (and yes, Amarok is compiled with the ipod USE flag). I assume I must be missing something in the KDE stack that Amarok needs in order to identify the iPod, but I have no idea what. Any ideas? |
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arcfxn
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 12:07 am Post subject: |
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Is libgpod installed? I would think it would be pulled in, but I don't know.
Edit: On second thought, gtkpod would have needed libgpod to work, so it must be. Can I ask the model of the ipod? Not all are supported, iirc. |
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arcfxn
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 12:13 am Post subject: |
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| Are you saying that Amarok will read and play files from the ipod, but not transfer them to the ipod? |
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tjscollins
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 12:32 am Post subject: |
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I'm saying that amarok detects it, and can even see the files on it. However it sees it as a Mass Storage Device. It just dumps the files into the iPod's music directory without adding them to the database. So it puts files on the iPod fine. However, since they are not in the iPod's database, the iPod cannot play them (they don't show up in the iPod's listing).
It's a 4G Nano. It worked w/ Rhythmbox and Banshee in Ubuntu previously. It also works fine w/ gtkpod presently on the same laptop. It doesn't work correctly with Amarok for some reason. |
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arcfxn
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 2:19 am Post subject: |
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I'm afraid I don't know enough to be of any more help.
Sounds to me like you might have enabled disk mode on the ipod, but that's just a shot in the dark. |
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tjscollins
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For anyone else with this problem a solution is outlined here:
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=115&t=93018&p=193442&hilit=ipod+mass+storage#p193442
It's only a problem if the udev disk-label on your ipod doesn't start with 'iPod.' Apparently there has been a patch submitted for Amarok to solve the problem without having to add a udev rule, but it's not in the version in portage yet (probably in 2.4.1 or 2.4.2). |
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arcfxn
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| Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 3:07 am Post subject: |
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| That's the reason? Wow, that seems really dumb. |
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tjscollins
is it jailbreaked.if yes,why struggle with ipod when there is smusic and xpod that you can just copy your files to
your i pod or iphone and play them direct form the filesystem |
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arcfxn
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| hedmo wrote: | tjscollins
is it jailbreaked.if yes,why struggle with ipod when there is smusic and xpod that you can just copy your files to
your i pod or iphone and play them direct form the filesystem |
Doesn't "jailbreak" refer to spoofing the iphone as another device to avoid data plans? Anyway, remember that he has a nano. Whatever you're describing, I doubt it's possible on the nano. Seems like something you'd only be able to do on the iphone and ipod touch. |
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