Does gtkpod support iPod Nano 6th Generation yet?

[devondashla]

I'm looking to get the newest Nano, since my Classic no longer works.

[gavdari]

Maybe to late to answer your question, but I have an iPod Nano 6G and it doesn't work with any native software in linux. I've tried gtkpod, rhythmbox, banshee and amarok so far and none of them are working. Each has some error at some point which I guess is because of new firmware that is not supported yet. I would like to know if any one finds a good solution to get it to work under maverick.

[alaukikyo]

Maybe to late to answer your question, but I have an iPod Nano 6G and it doesn't work with any native software in linux. I've tried gtkpod, rhythmbox, banshee and amarok so far and none of them are working. Each has some error at some point which I guess is because of new firmware that is not supported yet. I would like to know if any one finds a good solution to get it to work under maverick.

try itunes in wine

[Rave Gloves]

i just bought a Fuze made by sandisk. It is far superior to ipods. The sound quality is amazing and best of all it works 100% with ubuntu. I've had to much bother with ipods and ubuntu so i felt it was time to change.

[gavdari]

try itunes in wine

Well, it didn't work. Are you sure iTunes works in maverick and Wine 1.2?

[TakeLifeEasy]

Can someone point me in the right direction where to find further updates on this and who are the developers?

[peternickson]

Still no support using any programs. gtkpod detects music, but crashes. Banshee detects that the ipod contains content, but doesn't detect it as music. Rhythmbox detects the music, but you cannot add music to ipod.

[gnomeuser]

I have recently been involved in triaging all the iPod bugs in Banshee, and the answer is no.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631006

Support your local libgpod developer, he may be able to reverse engineer support, till such a time as Apple learns to play with others.

[mac9416]

According to a recent thread on the GTKPod development mailing list (the GTKPod folks write the software that allow Ubuntu to manage iPods):

For now, the nano6g uses the same hash for the music database as the
iphone4 and the ipod touch 4, which unfortunately means someone needs
to reverse engineer this hash before the nano6g can be fully
supported. And reverse engineering this is pretty hard :-/

[eneville]

According to a recent thread on the GTKPod development mailing list (the GTKPod folks write the software that allow Ubuntu to manage iPods):

Apple must have taken a lesson from Microsoft Office file formats in the 90's.