OT question about functionality / reliability of cover management on iPods

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Michael,

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:32, Michael Neumeier <dennismail at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an iPod classic 160 GB black here and I wonder since quite some months about the functionality and reliability of cover management on these devices. As I didn´t find any real answers to this issue, I thought it might be a good idea to ask here if somebody can point me the way to some explanations.
>
> Let me shortly explain which problem I am facing. First of all, you should know from which devices I am synchronizing my iPod:
>
> - on one side, from Kubuntu 8.04 with Amarok 1.4.9.1 (KDE 3.5.10)
> - on the other side from MacOS 10.6 with iTunes 9.0.2 (25)
>
> Both sides are getting the mp3 from a external hd, formatted with NTFS (as I also want friends with Windows being able to access it).
>
> I rebuilt the whole collections some time ago on the Mac, using a tool called "CoverScout", so in all (!) mp3-files, the cover is now stored.
>
> If I synchronize the iPod, I face two different problems:
>
> - either covers are not stored at all on the iPod, although they are present on the external hd
> - if covers are e.g. visible via Cover Flow in the iPod, no cover is however shown when playing a track
>
> As these results do occur both from Linux and Mac, I am blaming the iPod itself - am I right or wrong?

You are right. Since Apple does nearly everything they can to prevent
iPods running with anything else than OS X, don't be so astonished
about that. That's what you get when you buy closed source proprietary
devices.

On a side note, Amarok 1.4.x is not maintained anymore by us, so it's
highly unlikely that anything will ever change there anyway.

See also that wish for Amarok 2: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185900


Regards, Myriam
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