How to use the NEW iPod Nano in Ubuntu

scott - March 28, 2008 - 05:39

As I hate freedom I brought an Apple Ipod nano 8gb for Emmas birthday but was worried that it may not work too well with Ubuntu.

Luckily it worked fine. Well that was how many different website said, I tried a few different methods using gtkpod, amarok but the tracks were not showing in the ipod nano. But lucky I followed this instructions and bang it worked fine.

1) Plug the ipod nano in and then close rhythmbox as this is the default setting for ipods

2) Downloaded and installed these, ftp://64.22.103.45/packages/ubuntu/gutsy/libgpod/ and download the following two files :-
libgpod2_0.5.3+actually0.6.0-0.1_i386.deb
libgpod-dev_0.5.3+actually0.6.0-0.1_i386.deb

make sure you have all the repositories enabled in your Sources options area except for source code

3) Open terminal and type in df :-

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             48062440   3112656  42508308   7% /
varrun                  257920        88    257832   1% /var/run
varlock                 257920         0    257920   0% /var/lock
udev                    257920        84    257836   1% /dev
devshm                  257920         0    257920   0% /dev/shm
lrm                     257920     34696    223224   14% /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile
/dev/sdc1              3798592    370320   3428272  10% /media/IPOD

4) Type in the terminal:-
sudo /usr/bin/ipod-read-sysinfo-extended /dev/sdc1 /media/IPOD

Thats it, open rhythmbox and drop and drag.

Now this is the music side sorted, but still need to look into all the others for pictures, covers & videos. To be updated