Loading ...Well after my long-winded first week with Ubuntu outlined here I got a ton of excellent feedback from folks on how to make my life easier. This post covers one of the tips which was how to get my iPod working with linux using Amarok 1.4.1. It turns out that using Amarok 1.4.1 is going to be the only real way to get this working, real here meaning “usable in an everyday setting”. Rhythmbox, while able to play the music, cannot handle basic podcast subscriptions aparently and definately cannot handle synchronization with the iPod.
Here’s what I did:
- Follow the instructions on this page
- Pop open your software properties dialog:
- Add a custom repository that represents the arguments: deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/amarok-141 dapper main
- Refresh your repositories
- Search for, select and install Amarok 1.4.1 (not the 1.3.9 version from Dapper repository):
- Go ahead and click through all the unauthorized warnings
- Fire up Amarok, click on Settings > Configure Amarok > Media Devices
- Click Add Device… and configure your iPod device, then hit OK:
- Add some podcasts:
- Select the episodes you want to put on your iPod and click Transer to Media Device
- Switch to the Media Device tab and transfer those items to your device
- Enjoy!
The Amarok team has done an incredible job, nice job guys! (Digg this)
* Update: Banshee seems to on a fast path to becomming the “Amarok of Gnome”; basically a cool as hell player for the Gnome desktop. The upcomming 0.11 release looks to have quite a bit of nice integrated iPod support:
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July 25th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Thanks for the heads up on Banshee, Riyad - I’ll have to go apt it tonight; I have been using my Windows desktop for my various ipodities simply because of the lack of valid podcast and synchronization support in Gnome Ubuntu, but I’m never in the office where my desktop is, so I forget to synch my podcasts on a regular basis (or would that be that I remember to synch them on an irregular basis). I didn’t really want to go down the Amarok road if I didn’t have to (because of the non-standard repos and the whole QT/KDE thing).
July 28th, 2006 at 10:11 am
Thanks for pointing me here, Riyad. This was the next thing on my todo list and you’ve saved me hunting around for instructions. Banshee looks very interesting too, although I’ll save trying it out until after I’ve got my ipod and podcasts downloading and updating reliably through Amarok. Cheers.
August 15th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
Thanks for the info on how to sync using Amarok itself. I’ve been fighting GTKpod trying to get it to work, but to no availe. Been pulling my hair out. Now I just need to figure out why the Ipod can’t be accessed through Amarok while in KDE!!
Robert
August 16th, 2006 at 3:20 am
Robert I’m glad to hear it helped although I’m sorry to hear you are fighting a battle as odd as that. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you on this end
November 15th, 2006 at 5:29 am
Robert, I am not sure if this will help, but I ran through this setup yesterday and in preparation I installed the package ipodslave. I also installed amarok-xine and amarok-engines just for fun. All worked well and I have full functionality with Amarok now. Hope this helps.