Hello!

I am using Amarok now for quite a while. Its a great
program. I am using Ubuntu with gstreamer output. Anyway I do have a
problem since I use linux.
I bought about a half year ago an Ipod shuffle and upgraded now to
1.3.1 . When I set the mount and unmount command anyway the message that
Amarok cant find the device still appears. But mounting works.
I am sure of it because I unmounted the ipod shuffle first and when I
press the connect button the ipod shuffle appears on the desktop and I
can open the device with Nautilus and access it and read/write through
gnome terminal but Amarok doesn\'t seem to find it.

These are my mount / unmount commands:

mount /mnt/ipod
umount /mnt/ipod

I also changed /etc/fstab entries for the ipod. When I create the file-system
with gtkpod 0.88-1 Amarok finds the ipod and displays the tracks there
seem to be upon.
Anyway the ipod firmware seems not to be compatible with that kind of
written database. When I try to press play on shuffle it just blinks
orange / green - does not work.
I ve upgraded recently to itunes 5 so I thought probably Apple would now
use different information to write on their ipod. Therefore I
uninstalled itunes 5 and installed the original software that came with
the shuffle and just created a new filesystem on the ipod shuffle.
Then I tried to mount it again with Amarok - got the same message that
it cant find the device.
Sorry for bothering you with it but I dont like to have to change
plattform all the time just for updating my shuffle. Anybody got any
clue how to make it work? greetings, ossi

Maybe you should try to make it work with a more recent version of gtkpod.

When I have problems with amarok finding my iPod shuffle, I usually use gtkpod to clean things up.