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EvetheBeef

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Using my iPod with Rythmbox
« on: September 27, 2010, 09:55:36 AM »
Hi,

I'm using TinyCore 3.0 and I want to connect my iPod with Rhythmbox.
I can mount it but as you might know with iPods you need some kind of program to use it.
So when I click "Scan Removable Media" in Rhythbox, it doesnt show up.
Any Ideas?
bye eva  :)

Offline curaga

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Re: Using my iPod with Rythmbox
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2010, 10:30:18 AM »
I've heard gtkpod has been succesfully used (Juanito?), so you could see if it works better.
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Re: Using my iPod with Rythmbox
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2010, 10:30:39 AM »
I'm not at a tc machine at the moment, but I seem to recall there's an iPod plugin to activate under the edit/plugins menu-did you try this?

Note also you'll need to load the optional libgpod extension

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Re: Using my iPod with Rythmbox
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2010, 10:33:12 AM »
I've heard gtkpod has been succesfully used (Juanito?)

I had an iPod working with gtkpod many moons ago, but it depends on how recent an iPod you have

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Re: Using my iPod with Rythmbox
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2010, 08:43:47 AM »
I only have an iPhone to test with (which is known not to work with libgpod), but it looks like you'd need to load libgpod, libusb, gst-plugins-{bad, ugly} and (maybe) libmtp to use an iPod with rhythmbox.

..this gets me a bunch of rhythmbox error messages about not being able to communicate with a usb device at least...

Note that there's an "iTunes-like" browser plugin included with rhythmbox-2.7, but I didn't try this.