What software do you use with an ipod nano ?

[Todd Zullinger]

Cameron Simpson wrote:
> I'm using GTKPod. With FC5 (and probably FC6, dunno), the shipped
> one is not very current.

Ancient is a better description of what's in FC5 and 6. :)

It was only added to core in order to let Rhythmbox support ipods, and
now even Rhythmbox needs a newer version.  It's updated in rawhide and
will likely (hopefully) see an update pushed for FC{5,6} before too
long.

> I build it from the CVS source. I needed to "yum install
> libid3-devel" (or something like that) as I recall. And I needed to
> build and install libgpod from the latest version too.

Yeah, same here.  I've been packaging CVS versions for myself since
FC4.  It's worked quite well for me and Gtkpod developer Jorg Schuler
is a real nice guy.  I sent him some iTunesDB files showing what
iTunes did when adding lyrics to a track and he added the capability
to Gtkpod the next day. :)

> You'd imagine --prefix would arrange all that for you, but
> apparently not. Sigh. I hate Configure:-(

That one seems more like a pkgconfig thing, just so you're sure to
channel your hate in the right place. :)

> Also, gtkpod is a little sensitive to the existing .gtkpod dir and
> the IPod contents. Tends to crash:-( So: remove your .gtkpod
> directory before running the first time.

Hmmm, I don't recall the last time I wiped mine clean.  There was a
change in the prefs file code a few months back that had some rough
edges for a few days but I think that was all sorted out fairly
quickly.  That's probably the last time I had to move anything around.

I filed an RFE to update libgpod to something newer[1].  I'm hopeful
that once 0.4.1 is released that will happen, which shouldn't be too
long.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211648

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