Hi,
Just foung gnupod, and I have to say its made my life *SO* much easier.
This isnt exactly a bug, rather a problem that I encountered when copying
mp3's to my ipod and I thought you might want to update your documentation
to mention this. (Ive looked through it and I cant find anything that
mentions it already, so my apologies if you've already encountered this and
made mention)
Version : gnupod_addsong.pl Version 0.98.3 (C) Adrian Ulrich
OS: Linux iron 2.6.15-1-486 #2 Mon Mar 6 15:19:16 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
Problem : Very slow mp3 transfer speeds to ipod.
Rather than use firewire, Im using a USB port to connect my ipod.
At first I was getting incredibly lousy connection speeds (sometimes up to
30 or 40 minutes to transfer an album to the ipod)
I assuming that this was the USB connection/port so I purchased a USB2 card
for the box.
I still had slow transfer speeds even using the new card.
Long story short ;
Your Documentation on mounting the ipod through the /etc/fstab file uses the
sync switch.
/dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod vfat defaults,user,noauto,sync,umask=000
Removing ;sync' from the line in fstab makes the transfer *much* quicker.
HOWEVER
After tranferring files and running mktunes you also need to run 'sync' to
synchronise/update the file systems.
So this process now goes thusly ;
/dev/sda2 /ipod vfat defaults,user,noauto,umask=000
Process ;
mount /ipod
gnupod_addsong -m /ipod /music/blah/*.mp3
mktunes -m /ipod
sync
umount /ipod
Ive been using this method for a few weeks now and not had a problem with it
at all.
Hope this is some help/worth to you
N.
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