Re: [Bug-gnupod] no sound, flashing lights

[H. Langos]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 04:36:15AM -0600, Thomas Krichel wrote:
> 
>   hi,
> 
>   I have just bought a 2G ipod shuffle. I have overcome the
>   problem of case-sensitive file system reported here
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg571642.html
> 

I received word that they finally fixed it. (It being bug 500540.) So the fix 
should trickle down to lenny in about a week now.

>   by using
> 
> trabbi:~#  mount /dev/sdb /mnt -o 
> rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uhelper=hal,flush,uid=1000,shortname=lower,check=relaxed,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1
> 

Personally I plug the ipod in, and after it has been automounted to
/media/IPOD i use:

pumount /media/IPOD
pmount -c iso8859-1 /dev/ipod /media/IPOD

You don't need to do that as root, which has the advantage of less chances
to shoot off your toes... and you get there with much less typing :-)

> trabbi:~# gnupod_INIT  -m /mnt
...
> Found *existing* iTunesDB, running tunes2pod
> tunes2pod Version 0.99.7-CVS (C) Adrian Ulrich
> > 0 of 0 files found, searching playlists

Aah, so there was nothing on the ipod before.

> trabbi:~# gnupod_addsong -m /mnt /home/krichel/pimsleur/m1_01.mp3 
...
>  Done
> 
>   I unplug it from the base, the I press play, I get no 
>   sound, just 10 flashes of orange and green light. 

Don't ask me what those flashes mean (I never had a shuffle) but my guess is
they mean "no music found".

I do use "eject /dev/ipod" though, instead of just unplugging the device,
to make sure caches get flushed and the device is informed about the 
impending disconnect.

> 
>   What am I doing wrong?

I guess you forgot to run mktunes. Without it you have added the files to
gnupods XML file and copied it to the device, but the iTunesdb file (the
one that tells the ipod's firmware what's on the device) still is empty.

have fun learing chinese, cheers
-henrik