frup
December 21st, 2007, 03:15 AM
With the Christmas season a few Ubuntu members might find themselves with new iPods, my girlfriend included.
As is well known these do not currently work out of the box on 7.10 and it may be good for the next issue to include a little guide on how to get it working.
I bought the fatty believing it was only the ipod touch that was affected, and when going home to preload her favourite music on it discovered that I had serious issues... Neither of our families has windows but hers does have a mac... but ideally she would want linux access.
This thread got everything working
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=611404&highlight=New+Generation+Ipod
Ok Im getting a new gen ipod soon and have been investigating this myself. I cannot test it as I dont have the thing yet but I can tell you what I have learned so far.
in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install libsgutils1 libsgutils1-dev
then download libgpod 0.6 if you havent already (if you have you need to recompile it again with the above packages now installed)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67873&package_id=156254&release_id=553119
extract the contents of this archive (I downloaded it to my desktop and right clicked and chose 'extract here')
open a terminal and change to the extracted directory
cd Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0
./configure
make
sudo make install
Now thats done you should have an 'ipod-read-sysinfo-extended' tool available.
ipod-read-sysinfo-extended DEVICE MOUNTPOINT
e.g. ipod-read-sysinfo-extended /dev/sda /media/ipod
according to what i have read this will store your firewireID on the ipod so your music will be visible once you add all your music to your ipod again e.g. using rythmbox
Ok I got hold of a new gen IPOD nano to test this out and was getting the same problem as you, empty IPOD even with songs uploaded to it with Rythmbox. I fixed it thou...
Delete the old libgpod libraries:
sudo rm /usr/lib/libgpod.so.2.0.0
sudo rm /usr/lib/libgpod.so.2
Create links to the new one:
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libgpod.so.3 /usr/lib/libgpod.so.3
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libgpod.so.3 /usr/lib/libgpod.so.2
ipod-read-sysinfo-extended is supposed to create SysInfo file on IPOD with FirewireID inside, but it did not work here, so I added it manually:
Connect IPOD to PC, then
sudo lsusb -v | grep -i Serial
Note down your FirewireID from the list, its the 16 digit one.
iSerial 1 0000:00:1a.1
iSerial 3 000A27001AD21163 <---- IPOD FirewireID
iSerial 3 3547160158733600
line coding and serial state
line coding and serial state
iSerial 0
iSerial 1 0000:00:1d.7
iSerial 1 0000:00:1d.1
iSerial 1 0000:00:1d.0
iSerial 1 0000:00:1a.0
iSerial 0
iSerial 0
iSerial 0
iSerial 1 0000:00:1d.2
iSerial 0
iSerial 3 060114014271000001
iSerial 1 0000:00:1a.7
Create SysInfo file on IPOD (assuming IPOD mounted at /media/IPOD):
sudo gedit /media/IPOD/iPod_Control/Device/SysInfo
SysInfo should only contain:
FirewireGuid: 0x<your firewire ID>
e.g. FirewireGuid: 0x000A27001AD21163
Now load up Rhythmbox and remove songs from the IPOD, then put songs back on IPOD, then eject IPOD (rhythmbox may freeze for a short while).
Songs should now be visible on IPOD.
Personally I have upgraded libgpod on two 7.10 machines with no problems. My girlfriends machine which will be the primary updater of the ipod has 6.10 currently and within the next few days I will be playing with that, I hope it works but will certainly be upgrading her system if it doesn't (first need for her since 6.10)
I have no idea if there is an easier method than this, apparently updating the libgpod allows gtkpod, rhythmbox and amarok all to work with the new ipods... my ipod 60gb video faced no regressions.
As is well known these do not currently work out of the box on 7.10 and it may be good for the next issue to include a little guide on how to get it working.
I bought the fatty believing it was only the ipod touch that was affected, and when going home to preload her favourite music on it discovered that I had serious issues... Neither of our families has windows but hers does have a mac... but ideally she would want linux access.
This thread got everything working
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=611404&highlight=New+Generation+Ipod
Ok Im getting a new gen ipod soon and have been investigating this myself. I cannot test it as I dont have the thing yet but I can tell you what I have learned so far.
in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install libsgutils1 libsgutils1-dev
then download libgpod 0.6 if you havent already (if you have you need to recompile it again with the above packages now installed)
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67873&package_id=156254&release_id=553119
extract the contents of this archive (I downloaded it to my desktop and right clicked and chose 'extract here')
open a terminal and change to the extracted directory
cd Desktop/libgpod-0.6.0
./configure
make
sudo make install
Now thats done you should have an 'ipod-read-sysinfo-extended' tool available.
ipod-read-sysinfo-extended DEVICE MOUNTPOINT
e.g. ipod-read-sysinfo-extended /dev/sda /media/ipod
according to what i have read this will store your firewireID on the ipod so your music will be visible once you add all your music to your ipod again e.g. using rythmbox
Ok I got hold of a new gen IPOD nano to test this out and was getting the same problem as you, empty IPOD even with songs uploaded to it with Rythmbox. I fixed it thou...
Delete the old libgpod libraries:
sudo rm /usr/lib/libgpod.so.2.0.0
sudo rm /usr/lib/libgpod.so.2
Create links to the new one:
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libgpod.so.3 /usr/lib/libgpod.so.3
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libgpod.so.3 /usr/lib/libgpod.so.2
ipod-read-sysinfo-extended is supposed to create SysInfo file on IPOD with FirewireID inside, but it did not work here, so I added it manually:
Connect IPOD to PC, then
sudo lsusb -v | grep -i Serial
Note down your FirewireID from the list, its the 16 digit one.
iSerial 1 0000:00:1a.1
iSerial 3 000A27001AD21163 <---- IPOD FirewireID
iSerial 3 3547160158733600
line coding and serial state
line coding and serial state
iSerial 0
iSerial 1 0000:00:1d.7
iSerial 1 0000:00:1d.1
iSerial 1 0000:00:1d.0
iSerial 1 0000:00:1a.0
iSerial 0
iSerial 0
iSerial 0
iSerial 1 0000:00:1d.2
iSerial 0
iSerial 3 060114014271000001
iSerial 1 0000:00:1a.7
Create SysInfo file on IPOD (assuming IPOD mounted at /media/IPOD):
sudo gedit /media/IPOD/iPod_Control/Device/SysInfo
SysInfo should only contain:
FirewireGuid: 0x<your firewire ID>
e.g. FirewireGuid: 0x000A27001AD21163
Now load up Rhythmbox and remove songs from the IPOD, then put songs back on IPOD, then eject IPOD (rhythmbox may freeze for a short while).
Songs should now be visible on IPOD.
Personally I have upgraded libgpod on two 7.10 machines with no problems. My girlfriends machine which will be the primary updater of the ipod has 6.10 currently and within the next few days I will be playing with that, I hope it works but will certainly be upgrading her system if it doesn't (first need for her since 6.10)
I have no idea if there is an easier method than this, apparently updating the libgpod allows gtkpod, rhythmbox and amarok all to work with the new ipods... my ipod 60gb video faced no regressions.