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failers

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2009-08-10

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looking for itunes equilivant

as topic says im looking for itunes equilivant so i can sync music to my ipod nano i tryed banshee but it doesnt find my ipod by some reason so got some other tips ? 
i know i can use virtualbox and windows and itunes but thats just such hassle to go thru

bangkok_manouel

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Registered: 2005-02-07

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Re: looking for itunes equilivant

you can try gtkpod.

kjon

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From: Temuco, Chile

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 398

Re: looking for itunes equilivant

songbird_bin

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failers

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2009-08-10

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Re: looking for itunes equilivant

nope gtkpod doesnt find my ipod either

Last edited by failers (2009-12-09 14:26:33)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: looking for itunes equilivant

Can you mount & cp to your iPod manually?

failers

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2009-08-10

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Re: looking for itunes equilivant

yea it gets automounted when i plug it in as a hdd and songbird doesnt find it either

karol

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Re: looking for itunes equilivant

Did you try to boot your computer with your iPod already connected?

Edit: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=103071
*NOTE ABOUT ITUNES* - If you use gtkpod to update your iPod, gtkpod does not use the exact same method of writing the iTunesDB file that iTunes does. So, if you use your iPod with both windows and linux, you may make your iTunesDB unreadable by gtkpod.

Last edited by karol (2009-12-09 15:21:01)

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

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Re: looking for itunes equilivant

Maybe try Floola?

Also what generation Nano is it?

Nagian

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From: Altach, Austria

Registered: 2009-08-03

Posts: 70

Re: looking for itunes equilivant

I think no program will find your ipod, they are all using the same library. I hope you already have installed libgpod?

karol

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Re: looking for itunes equilivant

Maybe http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/home/ ?

failers

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2009-08-10

Posts: 10

Re: looking for itunes equilivant

Maybe try Floola?

Also what generation Nano is it?

its the fifth

failers

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2009-08-10

Posts: 10

Re: looking for itunes equilivant

I think no program will find your ipod, they are all using the same library. I hope you already have installed libgpod?

ye its installed

failers

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2009-08-10

Posts: 10

Re: looking for itunes equilivant

ok when using git version of gtkpod and libgpod, gtkpod finds it but i cant choose fifth gen nano in the prefeerences it only goes to fourth gen and i tryed choosing fourthgen but it just made it puke errors about "iPod database import failed: illegal seek to offset 0 (lenght 4) in file /media/ipod/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB and when looking at that file manually its empty and 0 bytes big so what to do

owain

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Registered: 2009-08-24

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Re: looking for itunes equilivant

I think no program will find your ipod, they are all using the same library.

Not necessarily true - there's a known bug involving Banshee and iPods, which in my case didn't affect Rhythmbox, for instance.

kjon

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From: Temuco, Chile

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 398

Re: looking for itunes equilivant

yea it gets automounted when i plug it in as a hdd and songbird doesnt find it either

did you install the ipod extension for songbird?

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failers

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From: Sweden

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Posts: 10

Re: looking for itunes equilivant

yea

arxx

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From: Sacramento, CA

Registered: 2009-12-06

Posts: 40

Re: looking for itunes equilivant

i use banshee and it works fine.
its not the most lightweight but it works

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