iPod ClassiciTunes database

[Seb Ruiz]

2008/6/16 Ben Engbers <Ben.Engbers at brouwercp.nl>:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Amarok 1.4.9.1 on KDE3.5.9-5.fc7 on Fedora.
>
> Last week, while visiting New York for a long weekend, I have bought an
> iPod classic 80 Gb. From a Windows PC, my daughter has copied some music
> to the iPod.
>
> As soon as I connect this to my laptop - after configuring Amarok to use
> the iPod media device plugin  on /mnt/sdb1 - the iPod is recognized and
> Amarok shows all the music.
> I have tried to copy music from my laptop to the iPod, to create
> playlists and fill the playlists. Amarok gives no errors and when I
> click the Transfer-button, I see the transfer taking place.
>
> When I click the disconnect, the iPod is unmounted. It says however that
> it contains no music.
> When I connect the iPod again to the laptop, Amarok still shows all the
> music I copied before.
> After connecting the iPod to Windows again, I have to reinitialize again
> and all the content is lost.
>
> Question:
> Do I have to configure (how) pre- or post mount?
> What else could be going wrong?
>

Hi,
This is well documented on our forum and wiki, but I'll give you some hints:
You need to set the sysinfo file from the firewire guid so that
libgpod knows the hash the database after it has been written.

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