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

[H. Langos]

One thing that is apparent when taking a look at the iTuneDB is that your
iTunes (which version is it?) does NOT add any hash to the iTunesDB file
while gnupod does. See http://www.ipodlinux.org/wiki/ITunesDB for some 
information on the format.

Do you set a model in your .gnupodrc ?

Cheers
-henrik

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 11:49:18AM +0200, H. Langos wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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