Ipod Nano 5G with linux?

[bander013]

@Okiura Thank's a lot! X) After reading this thread and doing some magic, I am now able to transfer music on 5g nano ipod.

As was menthioned before, all ok, except album cover art, alphabet order and compilations.

Since I am stongly interested in cover art on my ipod, maybe I can provide some help with it? Any ideas in which side I must dig for it?

PS: I used libgpod and gtkpod from dottout overlay (I am gentoo user)

[damianusthesage]

# compile libgpod
cd libgpod/
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

I have tried doing this, but found a 'no makefile' after typing [make].
majordamo@majorlabour:~/libgpod$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

The last time I compiled anything was under Mandrake 10.0 with './configure && make && make install'

What am I doing wrong. I realise how Ubuntu has reduced the rate at which I learn, and made me unlearn important concepts, simply by making life easier. Can I really believed I haven't comiled anything in over a year?

[nothingspecial]

Did autogen.sh give any errors about missing dependencies?

You probably need libplist-dev and libsqlite3-dev

[fondue]

with the latest version (16.01.2010 commited) i got the following error:

make  all-recursive
make[1]: Betrete Verzeichnis '/usr/src_f/libgpod'
Making all in src
make[2]: Betrete Verzeichnis '/usr/src_f/libgpod/src'
  CC     libgpod_la-itdb_sqlite.lo
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
itdb_sqlite.c: In function ‘run_post_process_commands’:
itdb_sqlite.c:1475: error: implicit declaration of function ‘plist_dict_get_item’
itdb_sqlite.c:1475: error: nested extern declaration of ‘plist_dict_get_item’
itdb_sqlite.c:1475: error: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
itdb_sqlite.c:1487: error: ‘plist_dict_iter’ undeclared (first use in this function)
itdb_sqlite.c:1487: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
itdb_sqlite.c:1487: error: for each function it appears in.)
itdb_sqlite.c:1487: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘iter’
itdb_sqlite.c:1488: error: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code
itdb_sqlite.c:1493: error: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
itdb_sqlite.c:1494: error: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
itdb_sqlite.c:1506: error: implicit declaration of function ‘plist_dict_new_iter’
itdb_sqlite.c:1506: error: nested extern declaration of ‘plist_dict_new_iter’
itdb_sqlite.c:1506: error: ‘iter’ undeclared (first use in this function)
itdb_sqlite.c:1508: error: implicit declaration of function ‘plist_dict_next_item’
itdb_sqlite.c:1508: error: nested extern declaration of ‘plist_dict_next_item’
itdb_sqlite.c:1527: error: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
itdb_sqlite.c:1588: error: implicit declaration of function ‘plist_array_get_size’
itdb_sqlite.c:1588: error: nested extern declaration of ‘plist_array_get_size’
itdb_sqlite.c:1593: error: implicit declaration of function ‘plist_array_get_item’
itdb_sqlite.c:1593: error: nested extern declaration of ‘plist_array_get_item’
itdb_sqlite.c:1593: error: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
make[2]: *** [libgpod_la-itdb_sqlite.lo] Fehler 1
make[2]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/usr/src_f/libgpod/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[1]: Verlasse Verzeichnis '/usr/src_f/libgpod'
make: *** [all] Fehler 2

[mattycoze]

Feeling hopeless at this;

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

I tried finding my UUID for the ipod device and it turned out to be an 8-digit one, rather a 16 digit uuid. Apparently this is because it's a FAT partition...

mattycoze@mattycoze-laptop:/dev/disk$ sudo blkid /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="MATTYCOZE'S" UUID="05AC-BA4C" TYPE="vfat"

Someone please help

[vizzini]

Feeling hopeless at this;
I tried finding my UUID for the ipod device and it turned out to be an 8-digit one, rather a 16 digit uuid. Apparently this is because it's a FAT partition...
mattycoze@mattycoze-laptop:/dev/disk$ sudo blkid /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="MATTYCOZE'S" UUID="05AC-BA4C" TYPE="vfat"

If I understand this correctly, then you have problems with generating the hash-file. With the new build of gtkpod the sysinfo-file should be created correctly, you can take the UUID from there. Maybe the leading zeros must be present and the "-" must be removed - just guessing.

CU
Ruppi

[vizzini]

Has anyone tried the new developement-version yet? It builds fine, but it seems it doesn't write the sqlite-files back. I haven't had time to look deeper into it, though.

CU
Ruppi

[nothingspecial]

Feeling hopeless at this;



I tried finding my UUID for the ipod device and it turned out to be an 8-digit one, rather a 16 digit uuid. Apparently this is because it's a FAT partition...

mattycoze@mattycoze-laptop:/dev/disk$ sudo blkid /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="MATTYCOZE'S" UUID="05AC-BA4C" TYPE="vfat"

Someone please help

It`s not the uuid you need, its the firewireGuid

sudo lsusb -v | grep -i Serial

[iga]

nano 5g working just this morning, at last.

Yesterday I got the same issue as fondue (#144).
For me it's fixed with the okiura's patch (message #32) just applied to the last devel versions availables in
http://gtkpod.git.sourceforge.net/gi...gpod;a=summary
(20 jan, libgpod snapshot)
and
http://gtkpod.git.sourceforge.net/gi...site;a=summary
(2009-10-19, gtkpod snapshot)

I have found in this forum all the hints for getting the nano 5g working: thanks a lot for all, specially to Okiura.

[mattycoze]

It`s not the uuid you need, its the firewireGuid

sudo lsusb -v | grep -i Serial

hey there I tried that and this was the output;

sudo lsusb -v | grep -i Serial
iSerial 1 0000:00:1a.1
iSerial 3 SN0001
iSerial 1 0000:00:1d.7
iSerial 3 000A27001E6E7228
iSerial 1 0000:00:1a.7
iSerial 1 0000:00:1d.0
iSerial 0
iSerial 1 0000:00:1d.2
iSerial 0
iSerial 1 0000:00:1d.1
iSerial 1 0000:00:1a.0

So i figured this would be it; 000A27001E6E7228, only because it's 16 digits (evidentially I have no idea)
* quick question; how come I need a 'firewireGuid' when I'm only connecting the ipod via a USB cable?

Generated the Hashfile, copied it into the Device directory but I still can't get gtkpod iPod manager to transfer a song to the nano video 5g.

The error message i'm getting is something like this:

Transfer of "SONG.mp3" Failed, error opening '/media/MATTYCOZE's/iPod_Control/Music/F07/libgpod700985.mp3 for writing (permission denied).

I get the same error messages for any file format I try (including .m4a) etc...