[PLUG] iPod with Linux?

[Carlos Konstanski]

http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2005-02/msg00216.html

This posting went to the ends of the issue.  To sum up:

Use a package called gtkpod.  It's a GTK gui app for managing tunes on
the ipod.  Use FAT32 formatting on the ipod for now because there's no
fsck utility for HFS+ at this time, though you can hack the HFS+ driver
a bit to work around that.  It's all in the OSX Middleware thread.

Carlos

On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, John Jordan wrote:

> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 12:40:26 -0700
> From: John Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
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> To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic"
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> Subject: [PLUG] iPod with Linux?
> 
> OK, I scheduled this weekend for some free time to see if I could
> get my shiny new iPod working with my Ubuntu 5.04 computer.
> After googling for hours and installing grip and gtkpod, I've made
> some progress, but remain confused about most of it.
>
> I managed to rip a Stravinsky CD from my collection. Grip did a
> nice job -- there are 25 tracks in .ogg format in
> /home/jjj/mp3/stravinsky_igor/firebird. If I right-click on any of them I
> am presented with the option to play them with Music Player
> (Ubuntu default) or Realplayer. They play fine through the computer
> with Music Player, but I have not gotten Realplayer installed
> properly. (I think it is a 32-bit vs 64-bit issue, but I'll deal with that
> later.)
>
> Where I am falling down is getting the tracks into the iPod. When I
> plug it into a USB port Ubuntu pops up a folder window and
> appears to be able to read the filesystem. (This iPod has never
> been plugged into a Windows or Mac computer, and has never
> been near iTunes, which I have never installed on anything.)
>
> Evidently gtkpod is the application that is supposed to transfer the
> tracks to the iPod. But I'll be danged if I can get it to do so.
> Clicking on Help does nothing because the person who wrote
> gtkpod evidently never got around to creating a Help document, nor
> does Google find any instructions. Looking at the gtkpod window,
> nothing is obvious. There is a button labeled "Dirs" and when I click
> on it I can browse to the folder where it sees the ogg files. I select
> one and click on "Add recursively" (whatever "recursively" means)
> and it says "processing" for a moment, then nothing. The ogg file
> does not appear in the gtkpod window.
>
> I also tried just dragging one of the ogg files to a folder in the iPod
> window. I'm pretty sure that is not the way to do it, because from
> my reading there is a database file on the iPod that must be
> updated. But I tried it anyway, just for kicks. Ubuntu popped up a
> box that said I did not have permission to write to the iPod.
>
> I think I'm missing something that is so basic that no one ever
> wrote it down in any of the wikis and how-tos I have read. Like
> "before you can use the computer you must turn it on." OK, maybe
> not quite that basic. :(
>
> Part of my confusion is that I have never used an iPod on a
> Windows or Mac, so I don't know how it's supposed to work in the
> first place. And the little instruction manual that Apple included
> with the iPod just refers to iTunes.
>
> This would probably be easier if I were a teenager. :)
>
> Does anyone have any idea what I might be missing here?
>
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