Re: Charging iPod / Listening to music

[Davide Mancusi <arekfu@gmail.com>]

Richard Lyons ha scritto:
> > > >   When I plug my iPod using the USB cable I get the 'Do not
> > > > disconnect' screen on the ipod. It's great because I can see the ipod
> > > > is charging. But to listen to music I do not understand what I need to
> > > > do. I tried:
> > its not possible to listen and charge an ipod on any platform with the
> > "ipod firmware".  I went through this many years ago. Maybe look at
> > rockbox?
>
> In fact, this may be another advantage of the samsung.  You cannot
> listen via the headphones when the USB is connected, but since you have
> complete access to the filesystem while it is charging, I assume you
> could listen via the computer.  If I get sound working on the laptop, I
> test this.

	You can actually do the same thing with an iPod using Amarok; it works 
for me. Oh, and my disconnection sequence is
$ umount /mnt/ipod && kdeeject /dev/ipod
where /dev/ipod is a udev-created symlink to the relevant iPod device.

HTH,
Davide

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