Re: [Bug-gnupod] Support for 4th gen iPod Shuffle

[H. Langos]

Hi David,

Did you use gnupod before on a different iPod model?

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 12:44:48AM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello gnupod devs!
> 
> Is there some development going on at gnupod?

Yeap. Alive and kickin .. well maybe noch kickin but still standing on its
feet :-)

> I have an 4GB iPod shuffle which i want to use with gnupod. But it looks 
> that some things have changed from 3rd to 4th generation.

Could you post the model number? (a letter and 3 digits) 

I guess you mean the thing that apple calls "iPod shuffle (3rd generation)"?  
They didn't up the shuffle generation when they upgraded the 2nd generation 
shuffle from 1gb to 2gb.

see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1353


> First, to get the ipod mounted, you have to use /dev/sdX itself. There is 
> no partition number on it.
> A mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/iPod/ -o check=r works.
> Then using version 0.99.7 of gnupod is working too. It writes to the ipod 
> and creates all files without problems.

Did gnupod find the fwid? Could you show the output of mktunes?

> But if i want to start playing the music on the ipod, it is only saying: 
> "Please use iTunes to sync to this ipod.". This does not happen if i use 
> iTunes from a Windows PC.
> I suppose, that the format of the iTunesDB files changed.
> So, i will send you a gzipped version of the gnupod and the iTunes 
> generated iTunesDB, both with the same files in it. I hope that you are 
> able to analyze the new DB and update the gnupod project to support the 
> new shuffle.

I'll try to take a look at it.

Cheers
-h