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Re: Wine and itunes



On Wed, 6 May 2009 11:39:25 -0400
JoeHill <joehill@teksavvy.com> wrote:

> Raquel wrote: 
> 
> > On Wed, 6 May 2009 08:56:15 -0400
> > Christopher Judd <judd@wadsworth.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his
> > > system, and run ubuntu or debian.  The only thing holding him
> > > back at this time is itunes.  
> > 
> > You will hear a lot of "it works with $someplayer".  That is a
> > VERY broad statement considering all the different iPods and
> > generations of iPods.  For instance, just moving files from a
> > player to a 4th gen Nano will make it unusable and make it
> > necessary to start over again by using a Windows/mac machine and
> > iTunes.  I know.  I have a 4th gen Nano and have tried.  I have
> > made several trips over to the neighbor's house to use iTunes.
> 
> That just means you're using an outdated version of libgpod which
> does not understand the iPod's encrypted database, and so cannot
> write to it properly. The database gets corrupted and it looks like
> there's nothing on it.
> 
> You just need to upgrade to a newer version of libgpod. You should
> drop by the IRC channel at #gtkpod, that's where I got help so many
> months ago when I was running into the same problem.
> 
> -- 
> J

According to their web site, the iPod Shuffle is NOT supported, as of
04/19/09.

http://gtkpod.wikispaces.com/message/view/Supported+iPods/11251545

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