Re: Fedora 14: iPod not mounting

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 09:47 +0100, Neil Bird wrote:
Around about 03/06/11 20:01, Patrick O'Callaghan typed ...
A simple iPod mounts as a storage device, but a Touch or iPhone is a
more complex beast with its own protocol. I'm at my work machine but
when I get a chance I'll check my home machine which already has this
set up.

I think, in the first instance, it was the iPod being am @rse: it wanted
me to connect it to iTunes before it'd do anything (power-on only showed a
USB->iTunes picture).

We put iTunes on my son's laptop, and the iPod burst into life.

*Then* I connected it to my son's Linux login and it showed up. However,
I still get the same error (even after logging out and back in) in my login.
Most odd.


Note that you can update music etc. using Rhythmbox or Amarok but you
won't be able to do everything (such as update the firmware) except via
iTunes. I do it with a Windows VM, which also requires a bit of setup.

It does indeed now show up installed music in Rhythmbox (and gtkpod);
however, we're incapable of installing music from that end. R says it's
there after a bit of chugging, but the iPod doesn't; nuplug it & re-insert
it & it's gone.

Pretty much all my music is in .ogg; I had presumed that R would convert
this to AAC or something upon copy, but iTunes is unwilling to do so, so
maybe it's that.

I've had to resort to exporting a selection to MP3 as “normal”, putting
that into a dri set up to share for Windows, and then copy it on from the
laptop's iTunes. Bit of a PITA, but at least it works.


I shall be trying a Windows VM at some point in the semi-near future, so
it you have any pointers in that regard, it'd be appreciated!

One of the goodies just announced today by The Steve as part of IOS 5 is
over-the-air syncing and updating. In fact he claims you'll be able to
run an IOS 5 device without having a computer, not even to set it up out
of the box.

poc

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