Ipod Nano 5G with linux?

[Okiura]

Thank YOU! This did the trick! Generate a HashFile put it .../iPod_Control/Device/ and transfer works!

Unfortunately I found two issues:
(1) No transfer of cover-art (I can live with that)
(2) No correct integration of 'Compilations'

Maybe this is 'just' a sql-problem. I hope I find time to look into next week.

Again, thank you very much
Ruppi

Nice, that seems to be the fix...

Those 2 issues i'm aware of, it's because the values the Ipod looks at in the SQL tables are wrong and they need to be changed.

Also another issue is the ordering, the tracks do not display in alphabetical order this is because the ipod doesn't sort by name but a number associated with the name e.g. "Angels" would be given 100, "Crazy" would be given 200 and "Shout" would be given 300 (assuming you only had those 3 songs) atm the code assigns 100 to all songs. all these problems are being fixed in the libgpod with 5G support.

[mortfrog]

Awesome! Thanks you!! Transferring songs works!

[thorne32]

it works!!!!!
thanks a lot!!!!

[nothingspecial]

Why am I getting this now?

gtkpod: error while loading shared libraries: libgpod.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have followed all instructions to the letter.

locate libgpod

/usr/lib/libgpod.so.4
/usr/lib/libgpod.so.4.0.0
/usr/lib/hal/libgpod-callout
/usr/share/doc/libgpod-common
/usr/share/doc/libgpod4
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/20thirdparty/20-libgpod-sysinfo-extended.fdi
/usr/share/python-support/gpodder/gpodder/libgpodder.py
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgpod-common.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgpod-common.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgpod4.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgpod4.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgpod4.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgpod4.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgpod4.shlibs
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgpod4.symbols
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gpodder/libgpodder.py
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gpodder/libgpodder.pyc
/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gpodder/libgpodder.py
/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gpodder/libgpodder.pyc

[Okiura]

Why am I getting this now?

gtkpod: error while loading shared libraries: libgpod.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have followed all instructions to the letter.

try this

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libgpod.so.4* /usr/local/lib/

[nothingspecial]

Thanks, hlafway through trying this again at the moment.

I take it I was supposed to remove the original libgpod4 that comes with rhythmbox. That`s the only thing I can think of that I`ve done that I don`t remember being mentioned anywhere.

[nothingspecial]

try this

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libgpod.so.4* /usr/local/lib/

Thankyou.

This didn`t work. But after using the find command, I discovered that libgpod.so.4 was actually in /usr/local/lib so that link reversed worked.

sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libgpod.so.4* /usr/lib

Just loading the ipod now.

One problem, my new gtkpod can`t see the music I loaded with the old one so I can`t remove it.

Any way, atleast my boy now has a useable christmas present.

Thankyou so much for your efforts in resolving this issue.

[jamesarbrown]

Thanks to Teuf of GTKPod.

Sorry this is a little rough, these are copied commands from my Fedora system, you will need to alter commands to suit your devices etc, system i386 etc etc.

This will no doubt become mainstream in due course.

ipod-system-config-extended kept complaining about sgutils, but my system had sg3utils-devel in place, I eventually found it needs libusb also.

wget http://gitorious.org/libgpod/teuf-sa...tarball/nano5g
mv nano5g.1 nano5g.tar.gz
gunzip nano5g.tar.gz
tar -xvf nano5g.tar
rm -rf /usr/local/bin/gtkpod
rm -rf /usr/lib64/libgpod*
rm -rf /usr/local/gtkpod*
cd libgpod-teuf-sandbox

edit configure.ac
change line
LIBGPOD_EXTRAVERSION=GIT
to LIBGPOD_EXTRAVERSION=GIT_TEUFSANDBOX (so we can check later gtkpod has picked it up and not a previous install/build)

./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --target=x86_64
make
make install
cd tests

check the firewire ID is set and can be read by libgpod (with ipod plugged )
cd tests
./test-firewire-id /mnt/IPOD
results in
FireWire ID: 000A27001ECA5B71

create the HashInfo
cd ../tools
As ROOT
./ipod-system-config-extended /dev/sdc /mnt/IPOD

cd ../..
git clone git://gtkpod.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/gtkpod/gtkpod
cd gtkpod
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --target=x86_64

check result says
libgpod version ......: 0.7.3GIT_TEUFSANDBOX

make
make install

gtkpod &

[rmjb]

It's finally working! I kept deleting the iPod_Control folder and that screwed up the iPod badly so I plugged it into iTunes to restore it.

When back on Ubuntu I still had to set up the SysInfo file, it was totally empty, and put in the HashInfo file. After that the iPod would still mount unwritable some times, but when it mounts writeable I can add songs and they show up on the iPod.

Finally, something works.
Thanks for all your help guys.

- rmjb

[Kreuger]

Thanks to Teuf of GTKPod.
Sorry this is a little rough, these are copied commands from my Fedora system, you will need to alter commands to suit your devices etc, system i386 etc etc.

When I ran autogen, it worked okay but make failed for me.