On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:14:50AM -0500, Mike Kershaw wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 09:58:48AM -0500, Matthias Johnson wrote: > > I got a 32 Gig Ipod Touch from my girlfriend this morning. I know some > > people in LUG have these and I was curious about Linux support. First off > > it looks like I can't even get the thing on until I connect it to iTunes but > > maybe I'm wrong. After that point it looks like I can connect it to Amarok > > or Banshee and a few others. Anyone have any experience with this? > > > > It's itunes-only until someone reverse engineers their new protocol. > > AFAIK (the times I've looked), all the linux ipod managers mount the > ipod as mass-storage and manipulate the database. The touch no longer > offers mass storage as an option, they'll have to write their own device > drivers to talk the new protocol. > > They were working on it, I haven't heard of it being done. > > And correct, it has to be plugged into itunes first, i don't know any > way around this. > > Hope you have windows/mac handy somewhere, they really made it > impossible to use without their stuff.
http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Media_Device:IPod#iPod_Touch_and_iPhone Devices with Firmware 1.x Jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touchs (models introduced in 2007 only) with firmware revisions not newer than 1.1.5 with ssh installed work if their /var/root/Media directory is mounted via fuse/sshfs and if they are added manually as a media device. Then you can copy music via Wi-Fi with libgpod 0.6.0 or newer. Devices with Firmware 2.x Using Amarok to transfer music to iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G (models introduced in 2008) and all other models of iPod Touch and iPhone that have been upgraded to firmware 2.x requires the phone to be jailbroken, you must edit the file /System/Library/Lockdown/Checkpoint.xml on the phone, finding the key DBVersion and changing its value from a 4 to a 2[1]. Then follow the instructions as for firmware 1.x (sshfs or FUSE). So you have to jailbreak it, but then you may actually be able to use the fuse method to directly access it over USB, instead of degrading your performance to wifi speeds. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <[email protected]> GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 The Internet -noun : a mechanism which allows a billion people who can't sing, can't write a song or make an original beep, and have nothing to express, the means to deafen me with their tuneless, boring cacophony.
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