iPod Touch: ipod-read-sysinfo-extended fails during setup

[digitalhead]

I am trying to setup an iPod Touch 3G with firmware 3.1.3 and following instructions from here with the exception of installing libimobiledevice0 and libimobiledevice-dev instead of the libiphone-utils, libiphone0, python-iphone. (libimobiledevice replaced libiphone)

On step 6, where it says to run "ipod-read-sysinfo-extended" I do that and it comes up with this...

$ ipod-read-sysinfo-extended 33545feca44e0e9589bc6d070327bc19e1b7cda9 /mnt/ipod

** (process:4734): WARNING **: Compiled without libimobiledevice support, can't read SysInfoExtended from an iPhone UUID
Couldn't read xml sysinfo from 33545feca44e0e9589bc6d070327bc19e1b7cda9

Any suggestions on resolving this? I've been trying for 2 weeks to be able to add music to my iPod from my computer with no luck at all. It gets rather annoying having to transfer my music to a flash drive in order to add music from a Windows computer.

[kapil]

Re: iPod Touch: ipod-read-sysinfo-extended fails during setup

give a try to songbird..

[digitalhead]

Re: iPod Touch: ipod-read-sysinfo-extended fails during setup

The current Songbird doesn't have iPod support at all. The iPod device support extension hasn't been updated in quite some time. However, iPod Touches after the first generation haven't been supported there at all. The Ubuntu system doesn't mount the device, that's why it takes great lengths to get it setup to do so, at least until Lucid is released, which will come with iPod Touch support right out of the box.

[Snowhog]

Re: iPod Touch: ipod-read-sysinfo-extended fails during setup

...and following instructions...with the exception of installing libimobiledevice0 and libimobiledevice-dev instead of the libiphone-utils, libiphone0, python-iphone. (libimobiledevice replaced libiphone)

Any suggestions on resolving this?

Are you able to follow the instructions installing the packages identified instead of your subsitution? That's the first thing I'd be trying. One can hardly evaluate a specified procedure if one modifies it without first trying it 'as written.'

On my Karmic KDE 4.4.1 system, running a simulation of the installation of the identified packages in the linked instructions, I get:

paul@myotherbrain:~$ sudo apt-get install --simulate gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-bin gvfs-fuse libgvfscommon0 ifuse libgpod-dev libgpod-common libiphone-utils libiphone0 python-iphone libplist++1 libplist-utils python-plist libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev libusbmuxd1 usbmuxd
[sudo] password for paul: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree    
Reading state information... Done
gvfs is already the newest version.
gvfs set to manually installed.
gvfs-backends is already the newest version.
gvfs-backends set to manually installed.
libgvfscommon0 is already the newest version.
libgvfscommon0 set to manually installed.
libgpod-common is already the newest version.
E: Couldn't find package libiphone-utils

I expect that the package libiphone-utils can't be found (here) because I don't have the extra repository in the instructions added. But other than that, no errors as to outdated/deprecated packages. So, I expect that if you install the packages as stated, you might find that things will work.

[digitalhead]

Re: iPod Touch: ipod-read-sysinfo-extended fails during setup

I found somewhere that explained that libiphone was replaced by libimobiledevice as a dependency for one of the packages. I think it was gvfs (from the same repo), but it causes a conflict and it cannot be installed as the instructions say. Apparently, the instructions are slightly dated.

I know that iPod Touch/iPhone support is built into Ubuntu Lucid, but does anybody knows if it works in Kubuntu Lucid as well? If so, I guess I'll just be sticking with the same music on it until April. If not, I guess I'm screwed until I have access to a Windows computer that the owner doesn't mind me temporarily installing iTunes and my music library on.