Amarok 2 and iPhone/iPod Touch

[Alejandro Wainzinger]

That being said if it worked in 1.4.x it's probably not being
recognized by Solid.  The latest release included a patch to recognize
iPhones, so that's probably the issue.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Alejandro Wainzinger
<aikawarazuni at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ipod Touch and iPhone support is limited, and requires jailbreaking
> the device.  Jailbreaking is not recommended for a variety of reasons.
>
> Amarok depends on libgpod's support for devices, and here's what libgpod says:
>
>
> From libgpod site:
> http://gtkpod.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gtkpod/libgpod/tags/V0_7_0/NEWS
> http://gtkpod.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gtkpod/libgpod/trunk/README.SysInfo
>
> Please note that this release DOES NOT support iPhones and iPod Touch
> with firmware 2.x
>
> * support for iPhone and iPod Touch
>
> This requires manual user intervention: the devices must be jailbroken and
> mounted through sshfs. The iPod Touch also needs a firewire ID which must be
> manually set, see README.SysInfo
>
> Cover art is implemented but not tested at all, ditto for photo support on
> the iPod Touch
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
>> 2009/4/13 Nicolas Will <nico at youplala.net>:
>>> On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 15:26 +0200, Sven Krohlas wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Is Amarok 2 supporting the iPhone/iPod Touch in any way?
>>>>
>>>> Hoping that the site is up2date:
>>>> http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Media_Device:IPod
>>>
>>> I went there.
>>>
>>> and no, Amarok 2.0.2 does not see my iPod Touch. It sees a regular iPod
>>> fine, though.
>>
>> Unfortunately, none of the Amarok developers own any iPod touch or
>> iPhone devices. This means that it's a little hard to know exactly how
>> the ipod device handling will work under these situations.
>>
>> Any assistance we could use in improving support for these ipods would
>> be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Generally Amarok should support all the iPods libgpod can handle:
>>>> http://gtkpod.wikispaces.com/Supported+iPods
>>>
>>> I have been using libgpod 0.6 for a while now, and it is fine with
>>> gtkpod and Amarok 1.4.x. libgpod 0.7 is also fine with GTKPod, but is
>>> not used by Amarok (2.0.2) yet (2.1 uses it).
>>>
>>> Nico
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Seb Ruiz
>>
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