On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 10:28 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 22:31 -0800, Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
On 12/13/2009 02:20 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 17:38 -0600, Peter Danenberg wrote:
Quoth Patrick O'Callaghan on Sweetmorn, the 54th of The Aftermath:
Alternatively, you could jailbreak the phone and copy files using scp. I don't know if the phone will then recognize them as something it can play, but I wouldn't bet on it.
I was able to use gtkpod[1] on a jailbroken iphone to transfer music, manage playlists, photos, etc.
I was under the impression that gtkpod didn't yet support the iPhone. The webpage doesn't appear to mention it explicitly. Glad to see I was wrong.
poc
Please share.
I have an iPhone 3Gs, and I can't get it to work with gtkpod.
It mounts on the desktop as "Apple, Inc. iPhone" but that's all.
According to the gtkpod Help doc (under Troubleshooting) the iPhone and iPod Touch can only be accessed via sshfs, meaning you have to jailbreak them.
Somewhat OT: I recently bought a Pay-And-Go iPhone from O2 in the UK and was delighted to find that they will unlock it on payment of a fee (15 pounds). This appears to be in response to competition from Vodaphone and Orange, which recently started selling iPhones. Since my main motivation for unlocking was to use other Sim cards, I'll probably avoid the jailbreak route for now and use MediaMonkey under a VM to transfer my media content. On my netbook it's fast and functional where iTunes is molasses slow and bloated. Of course you can't use it for a full sync, but that wasn't the question.
---- just a point of reference... I actually use my Windows computer with iTunes to manage my iPod instead of using Linux and use Media Monkey (nice program btw) to manage artwork/idtags and use ITDB (iTunes Data Base) to clue iTunes into the changes made by Media Monkey (I'm obsessive but I have a lot of CD's).
For some reason that I have never spent any time trying to figure out, iTunes is extremely slow to sync mp3 files but very fast to sync m4a files. I wouldn't have known this except that my daughter gave me a few mp3 files which I was watching when they were syncing and I was shocked at the speed difference. If you 'convert' them to m4a, they will get loaded very fast. I suspect that Apple does some mini-conversion to mp3 files when it puts them on an iPod.
Craig