Hi,

I love amaroK btw! Thanks guys.

I just got myself a new toy. A black 30Gb iPod Video. However, amaroK seems to have some problems. I am using amaroK 1.4-SVN (Checkout today) and libgpod 0.3.

.mp3\'s transfer fine. However the cover art does not show up.

.m4a\'s also appear to transfer fine. However, they don\'t show up on the iPod. Furthermore, if I open the iPod w/ gtkpod it complains about bad hashes. Even if I let gtkpod fix the hashes the files still don\'t show up. However, the files show up in both iTunes on windows and in gtkpod.

I really like how amaroK handles the iPod and cover art. I can\'t even imagine handling the cover art with iTunes or gtkpod. If anyone could help me, or at least let me know that these are known bugs being worked on, that would be awsome.

Thanks again guys.

Hi Jeff,

as to your artwork problem, there may be several reasons for it. Could you please have a look at http://amarok.kde.org/amarokwiki/index. ... ot_working if one of the issues here applies to you?

The bad hashes gtkpod is complaining about are fine: gtkpod keeps another database in xml, but this db is only used by gtkpod (and thus not updated by amarok or itunes) and hence not up-to-date.

What worries me more is the fact that your m4a\'s are not showing up. But I have no idea what the reason might be. All my m4a\'s work fine here on my nano. Do you happen to have any ideas? Or could you send me the smallest of your m4a\'s to aumuell@reserv.at so that I can check if it is somehow related to the file?

Martin

Thank you,

That link was helpfull in getting the .mp4\'s to transfer. It started working after I installed dbus & hal.

cover art is still not working but I am still looking into it. I\'ll report back.

Hm, it was supposed to be the other way round

What did you have to do to make m4a work? Please tell me, so that I can fix amaroK or update the documentation.

Martin

I don\'t know what I did to get it working but I have gone and broken it again. :S

I installed and started dbus hal and GdkPixbuf then recompiled libgpod. mp4\'s started working, still no artwork. I figured perhaps recompiling amarok would fix the artwork thing. However, not only is artwork still broken but mp4\'s don\'t work either.

I should have left it well enough alone

You are all going to absolutely LOVE this!

So I say to myself, \"I wonder what would happen if I nuked my entire iPod filesystem and recreate it using gtkpod?\"

So I did and it worked. I transfered a few songs and the showed up great! it doesn\'t end there. So I transfer another chunk of my collection. They don\'t show up, what the heck!!!!

So I try to reproduce the whole procedure but I am completely unable. It is like my iPod will randomly allow songs to be written to its database. I am right back at square one. I have to give up on this for today. If anyone has any suggestions or would like some more info I would be happy to help.

Well, I\'m using a iPod photo 30GB, and amarok just doesn\'t recognise it as such (m_itdb->device seems to be false), and thus artwork is not working. I tried everything, including installing hal + dbus, but now amarok just crashes when trying to mount the ipod while hald is started (gdb confirms that it is in fact an error with the hal library: 0xb64fd63a in libhal_ctx_shutdown () from /usr/lib/libhal.so.1).
But anyway since Feb 14, libgpod\'s detection should work without hal as well: (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/g ... /ChangeLog)
So it would be very nice if all this would actually work (and preferably even without hal)...