gtkpod vs. ipod mini

Michael R Head burner at suppressingfire.org
Tue Aug 2 16:49:48 UTC 2005


For anybody searching the forums later, installing the 0.94.0 package
from debian solved the problem. I filed a malone bug:

https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/1635

mike


On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 00:17 -0400, Michael R. Head wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 23:49 -0400, Michael R. Head wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 22:40 -0400, Byron Poland wrote:
> > > check the id tags in gtkpod, and edit if neccesary, they could be
> > > slightly off or something.  also upgrade to gtkpod .93 (I think) it
> > > redid the way it handles the ipod database, and at least with my
> > > shuffle made things a lot smoother.  (might have to compile the latest
> > > version from source though.
> > 
> > My breezy box is what I'm using for the ipod, so it's got that version.
> > I just "restored" the ipod with the latest ipod updater in windows, and
> > I'm starting fresh with gtkpod. When I loaded the ipod into windows
> > itunes, the library seemed corrupt (tons of Xs with arrows where songs
> > should have been).
> > 
> > ... waiting 5 minutes for the sync to the fresh ipod to complete ...
> > 
> > Hm... nope that didn't work, either. Now I'm going through adding tracks
> > artist by artist to see if any of them cause particular trouble...
> 
> I believe the problem is the older version of gtkpod in breezy (0.93.1,
> 0.94.0 is the most recent).
> 
> http://www.gtkpod.org/news.html
> gtkpod V0.94.0
> BUGFIX: Fixed compatibility issue with new firmware 3.1 and iTunes 4.9
> (only 256 tracks were shown on the iPod, iTunes removed the majority of
> the tracks from the iPod). Podcasts are still not supported, however,
> and will be lost when handled by gtkpod.
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > On 8/1/05, Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:40 +1000, Serg Belokamen wrote:
> > > > > Howdy...
> > > > >
> > > > > There is an option under one of the menus,  find orphans, of check for
> > > > > orphans... something like that. You need to run that I think. It did
> > > > > it for me.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks, I had already tried that. According to gtkpod, they are not
> > > > orphans, and it did not mark them as such.
> > > > 
> > > > Any other possibilities?
> > > > 
> > > > >
> > > > >    Serg
> > > > >
> > > > > On 02/08/05, Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
> > > > > > Greetings!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have been playing with my girlfriend's ipod mini, and after breaking
> > > > > > it earlier (don't forget to run 'eject /dev/sda2' before unplugging
> > > > > > it!). I've retrieved her music (after borrowing a friend's TiBook and
> > > > > > buying PodSalvage), and I'm trying to put it back on with gtkpod.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm having a strange problem, though. Many of the songs aren't showing
> > > > > > up under 'artists' or 'albums' on the ipod.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > For example, she has Garbage's Version 2.0 album. If I browse on the
> > > > > > ipod to artists, there is no entry for Garbage. However, gtkpod says the
> > > > > > files are there, and if I create a playlist including all of those
> > > > > > tracks, the ipod can see the playlist and play the files. They still
> > > > > > don't show up under artists or albums.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Any clues?
> > > > > > thanks,
> > > > > > mike
> > > > > >
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