[WARNING] Re: [lucid] iPod Touch

[NoOp]

On 03/27/2010 05:16 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 03/27/2010 04:52 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> I was messing around transfering some songs from karmic to my jailbroken
>> iPod Touch (it's an 8Gb still at version 2.x). As many of you know it's
>> a pain to get it mounted, etc., etc. [1] And I never could get it
>> working properly in Rythmbox. On a whim I booted into lucid (no previous
>> ipod packages installed), plugged in the USB cable & not only was the
>> device instantly recognized, but I had the option to "Open Folder". The
>> device mounted instantly, and I was then given the option to launch
>> Rhythmbox... I thought, sure why not. Rhythmbox fired up, the device was
>> listed, I selected a song and... *it's alive - it played* !!
>> 
>> I'm totally amazed! So, then I figure I'd try it on an system that I had
>> upgraded from karmic to lucid - same thing, it works! I even managed to
>> stream from the ipod across the network w/pulseaudio.
>> 
>> So, with that revelation... has anyone tried lucid with a non-jailbroken
>> ipod touch? And if so, which version of virmware?
>> 
>> [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices/iPhone
> 
> Afer posting this, I did something in Rhythmbox, don't know what but it
> deleted all of the music that I had on the ipod touch! Luckily I can
> easily add all back with gtkpod (and or the "other"), but just a word of
> warning - back up all your music *before* messing around in
> lucid/rhythmbox!! Most likely it was an 'operator' error on my part, but
> I don't recall any warnings etc., when it happened. I'm reloading
> everything back on & will experiment to see if I can replicate, but just
> a heads-up eh?

Update: got the ipod touch restored, all works well with gtkpod on
karmic. Today I plugged it into lucid & allowed Rythmbox to open when
the touch was plugged in via the usb. Bam... same thing happened as
before; music on the touch was blank. I found that Rythmbox (lucid) had
not actually deleted any music on the device, but had set the iTunesDB
and iTunesDB.ext files to 0. Had to restore the files from the backup &
resync via gdtpod to get everything back to normal.

I'm off to launchpad to see if I can find a Rythmbox bug already filed.