Comments for Sukimashita Weblog

Comment on iOS 4.0 released: libimobiledevice and music sync with Linux by Jauco

Jauco — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:36:16 +0000

Hey, I bought an iPhone two years ago, never bothered syncing it with linux because it didn’t work back then and I was way to lazy to look into it, figuring I could always use my wife’s windows pc to sync music.

Yesterday I wanted to remove some songs from my library to free up space for the TomTom app. I plugged it into my wife’s pc, waited a few minutes for it to detect that it was an iPod, waited ages for itunes to perform some sort of mandatory update, waited a bit more for the ipod update that was also mandatory or something. Eventually after waiting at least an hour(!) I finally gave up. This morning, just for the heck of it, I plugged it in my ubuntu 10.4 laptop. Voila: rythmbox opens and shows me my music collection.

Moral of the story:
(1) It’s just so freaking awesome if someone fixes stuff behind your back :)
(2) When linux supports something the support is _so_ much better than the “official” windows toolchain.

Comment on iOS 4.0 released: libimobiledevice and music sync with Linux by Keith

Keith — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:52:39 +0000

The “Hey.. dude fix your s**t.” comments still utterly amaze me in the open source world. Don’t worry. There are still many among us who appreciate your work and understand that things take time. If I had the skills I’d roll up my sleeves and help – but alas I am a follower not a leader in this realm.

Comment on iOS 4.0 released: libimobiledevice and music sync with Linux by admin

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:17:07 +0000

With libgpod >= 0.7.93 music syncing with iOS 4 last-gen devices works and worked fine. There is however an “Updating Library…” screen shown after a sync which is most likely caused by a new sqlite music db sort feature that we are trying to fix. iPhone 4 and the iPad though use a new hashing algorithm that is more complex and not yet fully understood.

@Ed: That is 100% your fault due to a bad system setup/configuration.
@Andrew/@Ed: It would be easy if iTunes for Linux existed, right? So please go and rant with Apple about it.

Comment on iOS 4.0 released: libimobiledevice and music sync with Linux by John Watson

John Watson — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:07:10 +0000

I see there is an update on the website saying “31.07.2010: iOS 4 music syncing for last-gen devices works just fine”. Does this apply to only the git version or which one? I have a very recent 3GS and was a bit apprehensive about upgrading from 3.1.2 to 4.

Comment on iOS 4.0 released: libimobiledevice and music sync with Linux by Andrew Hailes

Andrew Hailes — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:35:11 +0000

Is this not even a priority?

Two weeks now since the last commit… getting more than a little frustrated having to reboot every time I want to update something on my iPhone.

Comment on iOS 4.0 released: libimobiledevice and music sync with Linux by Ed

Ed — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:58:58 +0000

Got myself an Ipod touch for my birthday. Latest generation, voice recognition etc. Guess what? Gtkpod doesn’t recognize it. I am so pissed if with Linux right now that I would gladly pay for a distro that worked when I threw a curve ball at it. I suppose that in the end you really do get what you pay for, and I didn’t pay for aggravation!

My rant is done.

I’m going to start shopping for a Mac.

Comment on iOS 4.0 released: libimobiledevice and music sync with Linux by faust

faust — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:06:05 +0000

boxingsquirrel: did you read? iPad => fully unsupported
You may have to wait, or to do it yourself.

Whatever, for those asking about music sync on iPhones with iOS4:
I’m using gtkpod-git with libimobiledevice-git
I mount my un-jailbroken device using ifuse

Music transfert seems to work (no errors, nothing)
But once it’s finished, there isn’t any new track in my iPod library…

Comment on iOS 4.0 released: libimobiledevice and music sync with Linux by boxingsquirrel

boxingsquirrel — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:58:34 +0000

Is anyone else having any luck with an iPad even mounting? I’m using libimobiledevice v.1.0.2 on Debian Lenny.

Comment on iOS 4.0 released: libimobiledevice and music sync with Linux by Sam Jacobs

Sam Jacobs — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:28:07 +0000

There seems to be some more activity on Gitorious* (Google is your friend :-P), but nothing that appears to be related to iOS 4. It’s annoying to have to wait, but I’m sure that then will be now, soon!

It’s probably worth keeping an eye on both repositories–I am!

Sam

* http://gitorious.org/libgpod

Comment on iOS 4.0 released: libimobiledevice and music sync with Linux by erghezi

erghezi — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:28:04 +0000

thx man for the good news :D