[gpodder-devel] iPod nano syncing problem3

From: manuel_seifner at yahoo.de (Manuel Seifner)
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:07:58 +0000 (GMT)
Hi,

> I also have some (minor) issues with sync'ing to an iPod (a
> 5th generation nano). In all cases, you can start gpodder
> from the command line with the '--verbose' option, that will
> give you more output to identify problems.

Thanks, should have thought of that *slapsforehead*

> This usually means that the ipod is not mounted at the
> point where gpodder expects it to be. gpodder uses a
> "hard-coded" path for the ipod, but it may be that UDEV/HAL
> assigns a different name. For example, my USB thumbdrive is
> sometimes mounted as "/media/disk" and sometimes
> "/media/disk-1". I cannot find any pattern in these

> occurences, but something similar may happen to your ipod.
Pretty sure I checked for that the last couple of times, but I'll check again 
it happens the next time.

> I have the same thing happening. In my case, all episodes
> will be transferred, they show up in rhythmbox, but when I
> disconnect the ipod will say "0 podcasts". If I re-connect,
> view in rhythmbox and then eject from rhythmbox, the ipods
> are playable.

Had one of those cases today again. Thanks to --verbose I saw gPodder 
complaining about not finding the iTunesDB, even though the path it gave 
(/media/IPOD/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB) is correct and I did find this file 
there with dolphin.
As you said the files show up in rhythmbox, although simply looking at them and 
then ejecting the iPod didn't make a difference for me.
I noticed that (unlike those I put on the iPod under iTunes in Windows) the 
Genre was "unknown" and they did not have a track number. Rhythmbox would not 
let me edit the tags on the iPod so I pulled one of the files (a Linux Outlaws 
episode) into the rhythmbox music library. Rhythmbox automatically assigned it 
the genre "Podcast" and a track number. I pushed it back on the device and 
ejected the iPod. This episode did not appear on the iPod, but what did appear 
are 39 copies of Tech News Today #114. Which is the correct amount (I copied 
the #76 -#114), but obviously I'd rather have the 39 episodes instead of the 
copies. 

All in all an interesting experiment that left me even more confused than 
before :)

So Long
Manuel

> I have not been able to tell any error from the gpodder
> output. I blame it on libgpod (or whatever other software is
> used to transfer files to the ipod). Also note that if you
> have a completely fresh Gen-V Nano, you can transfer files
> with rhythmbox or gpodder, and nothing will show up on the
> player, although rhythmbox will list the files. In that
> case, you must connect the ipod to iTunes, and (re)set to
> factory setting, and transfer at least one file. After that,
> it will work fine with gpodder or rhythmbox. 
> 
> I think the database system on the ipod is complicated and
> prone to sync'ing errors. Just the way Apple wants it to
> be.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wilfred
[gpodder-devel] iPod nano syncing problem3

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