GTKpod error

[xAngelusx]

checking for id3_frame_field in -lid3tag... no
configure: error: *** id3tag >= 0.15 lib not found (0.14 will not work!)

everything ran smoothly up until this. what does it mean? and can someone help me fix this or guide me to somewhere i can find the solution

[timothykaine]

You need to install a newer version of libid3tag0. (0.15 or higher)

What distro are you using?

[xAngelusx]

I'm running Ubuntu. newest version I believe. however I fixed the problem so thank you. another question tho, it didnt install with a desktop icon, can i just create a launcher for it and go with that?

[timothykaine]

Originally posted by xAngelusx
another question tho, it didnt install with a desktop icon, can i just create a launcher for it and go with that?

Yes. Just create a launcher for the command "gtkpod' and pick an icon, etc.

If youre using KDE you can try to let it automatically generate a menu item in the Update Menu Tool under Kmenu > Settings > Menu Updating Tool

[xAngelusx]

ok now that is all honky dory, when i try to read the itunes db upon pluggin in my iPod, i get this error:

'/mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB' does not exist. Import aborted

what can i do? or what does this mean?

[timothykaine]

A quick google for itunesdb gave me this:

http://www.ipodlinux.org/ITunesDB

Seems to be rather thorough documentation, perhaps something in there can help you.

[xAngelusx]

ok that particular help document didnt really help, i found one that i think will on the same site however. im following the steps, however when it asks me to

cd /usr/src/linux

i get a doest not exist error. do you happen to know what the command would be under ubuntu. ill keep trying, if you can think of something to help id greatly appreciate it. thanks for your help thus far.

[serz]

Well, /usr/src/linux is actually a symlink to your kernel source..

You could cd to /usr/src/linux-kernel-version instead.

[xAngelusx]

ive also seen a lot of articles and posts about having the iPod formatted to vfat. mine is FAT32, does it make a dif?

[Hayl]

at this point you just want it to mount so the filesystem doesn't matter as long as you have support for the file system in your kernel.

does you iPod have anything on it at the moment or it is totally empty?

[xAngelusx]

it has about 2600 songs currently. ubuntu recognizes it, however gtkpod wont let me view the contents, saying it cannot mount and something about it now existing. i found the directions on how to mount it, however the command to view the kernel, doesnt seem to be the same with ubuntu. thus i dont know what to do

[bwkaz]

You may not have the kernel sources installed in Ubuntu. But I'm guessing this probably doesn't matter, either.

Try this. Do a cat /proc/mounts from a shell, and look for something referencing /dev/sdXY (for some value of X and Y, possibly "a" and "1", possibly something different) in the first field. The first field is the device file, and the second field is the directory where it's mounted. (Other fields are filesystem type, options, etc.) I'm guessing that Ubuntu just mounted your ipod in a directory other than /mnt/ipod.

What you can do to make this work is, as root, create a symlink from /mnt/ipod pointing at wherever Ubuntu mounted the ipod's filesystem.

If /proc/mounts shows /media/usb, for example, you can probably do an ln -s /media/usb /mnt/ipod as root to create the correct symlink.

On the other question, yes, vfat is the same as FAT32.

(Side note: How do you like the Great White North? Is there still snow up there on the sides of the roads now? IIRC from when I was there a few years ago, it lasted into April, though the groundskeeping people at Tech hauled most of it away before the parents came to pick up students in May.)

[xAngelusx]

ok this is me editing my post. you will be happy to know that i got it to work. thanks so much.

however, when I go to play a song, it says"could not find xmms" command for play now. what does that
Mean?

another thing too. "Could not open "iTunesDB.ext" for reading extended info.
Extended info will not be used." I get this error. dont know what it means. yet, music still shows up in gtkpod.

suprisingly, almost all the snow is gone, and its been getting almost to the 60's up here. its beautiiful out. so getting my iPod to work is becoming quite a pain lol.

well thanks for the help, if u have any other suggestions, they'd be greatly appreciated.

[Hayl]

you can set the media play in gtk pod. by default it wants XMMS. it can't find it so eitehr isntall it or go into teh preferences and change it.

you can also probably get rid of that warning message some how. perhaps reading the documentation or poking around in the preferences is your next step?

[xAngelusx]

ok so got that working now. in the directions, it says import to gtkpod from the iPod, however, unless im incredibly stupid and blind, i cannot find the import anything. unless its something else, im going to read the directions again to make sure i didnt already cover it

it plays so many songs, before i get this weird box to add stuff but i dont know what to do, and the instructions dont say anything about it. do you by chance what it is.

yet another thing i dont understand. i closed gtkpod, when returning to it, the music was gone, and it said my ipod dir did not exist. am i doing something wrong?