Hi Jason, Whereas gtkpod uses a very simple model where you have to manually figure stuff out and mount your iPod somewhere, there are actually a lot of moving pieces required to get the iPod working seamlessly with Rhythmbox. HAL, dbus, gnome-volume-manager, pmount and libipoddevice all need to work together. If any piece breaks, the whole thing doesn't work.
That said, try some of the stuff suggested here: http://banshee-project.org/Troubleshooting/iPod [yes, it's for Banshee, but both Banshee and Rhythmbox use largely the same infrastructure to talk to iPods] One thing that bit me the first time I tried was that I was not in the 'plugdev' group. You might look into that. Have fun, Peter On 12/4/06, Jason Bodnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a new iPod shuffle (the clip kind, I think it's considered a sixth > generation iPod). I can successfully transfer mp3s to it using gtkpod (though > it's not very intuitive), but for > the life of me I can't figure out how to do it with Rhythmbox. > > I'm using rhythmbox 9.6 (Fedora Development rpm: rhythmbox-0.9.6-3.fc7). rb > 9.6 is supposed to have ipod writing on by default so I've looked at the rpm > spec file and it configures the build as so: > > %configure \ > --with-ipod \ > --with-dbus \ > --with-mdns=avahi \ > --disable-scrollkeeper \ > --enable-tag-writing > > So that should all that's needed to copy tracks to an iPod, correct? So, what > am I missing? I've tried dragging artists, albums and highlighted tracks to > the iPod icon in the left panel, but the dragged icon just retreats back to > its origin. I've tried Edit-> Copy but Paste is deactivated when I then select > the iPod. Am I doing something wrong? Is it possible that iPod writing is not > turned on for this rpm version of rb? Is there an easy way for me to check > that? > > Thank you, > > Jason > > -- > Jason Bodnar > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.shakabuku.org > > UnWired Buyer. The best way to win on eBay. Period. > http://www.unwiredbuyer.com > > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel > _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
