Its been a couple of weeks but I finally sat down and got the iPod Nano working with my linux box. I guess it would have worked out of the box except the new iPods (I think generation 5?) do things a little differently with some index file and this was causing it to not show up in my music app, banshee. I was getting the message from the ipod app “Not a Valid iPod! Try Rebooting the iPod” so I thought this was the problem, but it wasn’t as it displayed this even after I got it working. Kinda misleading.

Anyways, getting the Nano working on my Gentoo box involved:

1. Getting libipoddevice from scm and installing
2. Remerging python with the gdbm USE flag
3. Emerging avahi for the avahi-sharp lib
4. Getting ipod-sharp from scm and installing
5. Getting banshee from scm and installing

Banshee seems a little unstable, with some apparent deadlocks? where the cpu utilization goes to 100% with no response from the app (but I’ve seen this happen before the HEAD). Now, however, I don’t have to plug the usb into a different computer and boot windows to drop a couple of songs on the thing and it seems like it copies the music over faster than iTunes (or I have a good imagination). :)

While searching around for a Tux iPod picture to use I have just discovered ipodlinux and iDoom. Sweet!

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