What software do you use with an ipod nano ?

[Cameron Simpson]

On 05Dec2006 15:40, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
| Manuel Arostegui wrote:
| > Gtkpod works perfect for me :-)
| 
| This will depend a little on your ipod model and firmware.  The
| currently available libgpod that gtkpod depends on is rather outdated
| in FC6.  So without getting an updated libgpod package from elsewhere
| (FreshRPMS ships one, for example), the experience with gtkpod may not
| be so hot (ranging from simply not supporting artwork on capable ipod
| to crashes on startup).
| 
| Hopefully an updated libgpod will make it's way into FC6 before too
| long.

I'm using GTKPod. With FC5 (and probably FC6, dunno), the shipped one
is not very current.

I build it from the CVS source. I needed to "yum install libid3-devel"
(or something like that) as I recall. And I needed to build and install
libgpod from the latest version too.

So I have this off in /opt/gtkpod-cvs, and this shell wrapper:

  [/opt]zoob*> cat ~/scripts/stubs/gtkpod
  #!/bin/sh -u
  gtkpod=/opt/gtkpod-cvs
  exec env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$gtkpod/lib $gtkpod/bin/gtkpod ${1+"$@"}

I build libgpod and gtkpod with --prefix=/opt/gtkpod-cvs, and I needed
to set PKG_CONFIG_PATH for the gtkpod configure run:

  PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gtkpod-cvs/lib/pkgconfig \
  CFLAGS=-I/opt/gtkpod-cvs/include \
  LDFLAGS=-L/opt/gtkpod-cvs/lib \
  ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtkpod-cvs

You'd imagine --prefix would arrange all that for you, but apparently
not. Sigh. I hate Configure:-(

Also, gtkpod is a little sensitive to the existing .gtkpod dir and the IPod
contents. Tends to crash:-( So: remove your .gtkpod directory before running
the first time.

Cheers,
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