Anyone Using Amarok In Fedora 11 With iPod?

[Robert L Cochran]

On 07/26/2009 09:05 PM, Craig White wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 20:40 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>    
>> Robert L Cochran wrote:
>>      
>>> Is anyone using amarok 2.1.1-1 to manage an iPod on  Fedora 11? If
>>> so, how did you get amarok to recognize the iPod? I can't get
>>> podsleuth to see my ipod when connected -- it is mounted as a hard
>>> drive instead, and is not seen as a media player. There is a bug for
>>> this but I'm not sure how to work around the issue so that amarok
>>> works:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495240
>>>        
>> That bug indicates a problem with podsleuth, which is not used by
>> amarok for its iPod functions.  Amarok uses libgpod instead.
>>
>> If the iPod is not being mounted as a media device, that would seem to
>> be a more generic DeviceKit or HAL bug.  What is it that tells you the
>> iPod is not recognized as a media device?  I connected a 5th gen Video
>> iPod to an F-11 test box and it is mounted properly and recognized as
>> an iPod, based on the icon used to display the device.  (I'm running
>> Gnome on that box, and it hasn't been updated in a few weeks, FWIW.)
>>
>> Also, as far as I understand, Amarok 2 has significantly changed the
>> way media devices like iPod's are handled.  That might be an
>> additional stumbling block you'll run into.  I don't know much more
>> than that, as I don't use Amarok myself.
>>      
> ----
> last I heard, Amarok 2 still did not have the ability to sync to devices
> yet. That may have changed but I am not aware that it changed.
>
> Craig
>    
Craig and Todd,

Thanks for your help with this. This web page shows what appears on my 
Fedora 11 Gnome desktop when I plug in my iPod Nano over USB. I have not 
used the Nano in a very long time and it may not have the most recent 
firmware on it. A friend of mine is wondering why banshee isn't "seeing" 
her even older iPod; it behaves just like you see here when plugged in.

http://www.greenbeltcomputer.biz/fedora11_ipod_media_device.html

Todd...this is for Fedora 11 with x86_64 updates applied, as of this 
afternoon. Uname -a shows:

Linux deafeng3.signtype.info 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 7 
21:02:57 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks

Bob