Ipods

[Adam Hough]

On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 16:19 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Jose Celestino wrote:
> > And most certainly a bunch of troubles making it build the db if
> > apple insists on their lockup policy.
> 
> It's surely not as nice as if they just kept everything open, but i'm
> still not convinced that the changes in the new iPod's are designed to
> stop other software from writing to the iPod as much as it is to
> ensure that 1 iPod goes with 1 iTunes.
> 
> It didn't take long at all for the changes to be reverse engineered.
> It won't be long until the software for linux can write to the new
> iPod's as seemlessly as before. :)

I just had to pull down a svn snapshot of libgpod and gtkpod to get my
new iPod to work seamlessly like before with my old 4th gen iPod in F7.
Had to rebuild a could of packages like Amarok and one other that I had
installed to get them to work with the svn snapshot.