gtkpod Added Tracks Hang iPod

[Tod Merley]

On 8/4/06, sog <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
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> hi there, not sure where else to post this so i figured this was as good
> as anywhere.
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> i have a 30 GB iPod video that up until a couple of months ago lived
> solely on windows and worked just fine. a little while back, however,
> Windows stopped recognizing it as an iPod and insisted on mounting just
> as external hard drive, meaning that iTunes didn't recognize it.
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> i thought i'd need to take it in for servicing, but happened to mount
> it in Ubuntu and not only did Ubuntu see it, it could write to the
> device. sweet, i thought.
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> but unfortunately, the tracks i've uploaded to the device - all MP3's
> purchased from emusic - play for a bit and then hang the ipod.
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> anybody have any bright ideas for fixing that?
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Hi Sog!

I do not think I am any kind of an expert here - I do not have (but am
thinking about getting) an iPod.

My guess is that you connect to the computer USB(probably 2 if available).
You noted some kind of a change when Windows no longer recognised it as an
Itunes device - only saw it as a hard drive.

I do have an RCA_LYRA mp3 player.  Linux is my device to use it on and I
have noted the following:

1. You absolutely need to close all files using the mounted directories
(/media/RCA_LYRA for the device itself and then /media/usbdisk for the added
SD memory card) and then do a right-click on the desktop icon (RCA_LYRA and
usbdisk show up as a folder on my desktop and each opens it's own file
browser - I close the file browsers and THEN do the Eject) and select
"Eject" (at the bottom) and then wait until the desktop folder(s) have
disappeared BEFORE I disconnect the USB cable from the device.  Ubuntu puts
your changes to the disk in a separate cache and only writes them to the
device during the eject process.

2.  I have not played around with this enough to absolutely know what you
can and cannot do, but for what I do now I edit (delete files from the
device, copy files to the device, etc...) the device as sudo -i ("root") and
in my case from the command line.  When I tried deleting the files in file
browser (as myself) the file went away but the room the file took on the
device did not clear.  The only way I found to "get the room back" was to
reformat the device (I did have the good sense to experiment on my SD memory
card and kind of know what I was doing before I tried anything on the
RCA_LYRA memory itself).  Probably there is a much better way around this
and I hope someone will have mercy on us and tell us how it can be done.

This is only a silly guess but perhaps you corrupted part of your file
system - perhaps by yanking the USB connector out of the device when it was
in a write cycle.  You may do well to send it in for that servicing.

If you are writing to it with Linux, do so as "root" (sudo) and make sure
you completely eject the silly thing before you yank the USB connector.  You
would probably do well to Google "iPod with LInux" and such.  Doing so
myself (as I say I am interested) shows that the iPod has an interesting
file system (I add to the above - make sure you understand what you are
doing before you try to write to the device - again - a file system
thing!!!).  Here are some links to get you started:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/adonovan/hacks/ipod.html

(Podzilla! Oh My!): http://ipodlinux.org/Main_Page

(Looks Promising.):  http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8160

I hope that this does lead to a lot of fun and not too much frustration.

Have fun, and please write back what you found/did and how it all is going.

Thanks!

Tod
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