access ipod files?

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 17:01 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > ----
> > normal fedora would have device automatically mount when connected -
> > i.e. /media/DEVICE_NAME as the current logged in user.
> >
> > Evidently it is device known as /dev/sdc
> >
> > Probably best not to fool with it much as root
> >
> > in a terminal, you can figure out what is mounted simply by typing
> > 'mount'
> >
> > IE...my ipod (not a mini)
> >
> > mount command shows...
> > /dev/sda2 on /media/80IPOD type vfat
> > (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000,utf8,shortname=lower)
> >
> > so my ipod is /dev/sda and /dev/sda2 is mounted at /media/80IPOD
> >
> > $ ls -l /media/80IPOD/
> > total 80
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 craig root 16384 Jan  1  2000 Calendars
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 craig root 16384 Jan  1  2000 Contacts
> > drwxr-xr-x 6 craig root 16384 Sep 10  2006 iPod_Control
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 craig root 16384 Jan  1  2000 Notes
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 craig root 16384 Nov 22 12:08 Photos
> >
> > so far so good...
> >
> > ls -l /media/80IPOD/iPod_Control
> > ...
> > ls -l /media/80IPOD/iPod_Control/Music
> > which then shows all the folders and the music is inside the folders.
> >
> > The file/folder naming scheme doesn't make sense to us.
> >
> > but it can be discerned from 
> > /media/80IPOD/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB
> > but it needs something that can make sense of that.
> >
> > That's where Amarok, gtkpod or other programs come in.
> >
> > Find the icon on the desktop and right click it, tell it to 'Safely
> > Remove' and then after telling you to remove it, disconnect from
> > computer. Fire up Amarok (or whatever), once it launches, then connect
> > the iPod again...Amarok should find it just fine.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> >   
> 
>     Ok, with your help I was able to make it work.  When I plug in the
>     iPod two icons appear on the desk top, one labeled "Apple iPod" and
>     another marked "Luc & Matt."  I had to mount the second one and then
>     I can see the files you mentioned "/iPod_Control/iTunes/" etc. 
> 
>     Then starting amarok produces a listing of the contents of the iPod
>     from which I can copy stuff to the hard drive and play it via xmms.
> 
>     Thanks to all for the help.
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just as an fyi, I think that if you want to use Amarok to 'play' ipod
stuff, it requires that you have livna repository configured and then, 

yum install \
gstreamer-plugins-good \
gstreamer-plugins-bad \
gstreamer-plugins-ugly \
gstreamer \
gstreamer-tools

I suspect that you already have faad2 & xmms-faad2 installed since you
are playing from xmms and thus probably already have livna configured.

Craig

(probably gstreamer and gstreamer-tools are already installed)