To test to see if most of this stuff is working, if you plug in a usb key and nautilus pops up and/or something new shows up in the drive mount applet, then I think everything right up until libipoddevice is probably working ok. Just to narrow it down
On 12/5/06, Peter Colijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
