GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 599051
Ipod nano 5th generation don't find musics when manually manage from banshee
Last modified: 2011-01-22 15:04:14 UTC
I'm using banshee last release (1.5.1) and i'm trying to put some of my musics on my Ipod nano 5th geneartion using banshee. Banshee copy my musics but my Ipod don't recognise them. The music files stay on Ipod ( i can see them in other softwares like gtkpod ) but the Ipod still cant find them.
If you try to add the same music files using a different program - like gtkpod - can the iPod see and play the files then? Also, what types are these files? mp3? or something like ogg that would need to be transcoded before the iPod can play it?
Hi Machael, It doesn't work in gtkpod too. I think that apple changed something on how to manage the database. :( All musics are mp3 files. Regards, PotHix
This also happens to me. It looks like the database layout has changed on these iPods. From this forum thread it seems that the gtkpod team have worked out the new database layout: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1267180 Is this enough info to continue work on the bug?
Æ!! I tried to use GtkPod with this new patch but it still don't work. :( I'll keep following this topic on Ubuntu Forum, maybe someone have an solution. Just a question, banshee uses libgpod? Regards, PotHix
That thread in the Ubuntu Forums is now 17 pages long, so this seems to be a pretty well-known and widespread issue. I'm changing the status from NEEDINFO to NEW, but I doubt many Banshee development hours will be spent on this in the immediate future.
there seems to be a solution with libgpod on this page -> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1267180&page=18 Post #180 gives the way to do it.. Would be great to see this fixed in banshee as it is the only media player i use.
I'm not sure if their's something extra for podsleuth, but as it somehow is information for the same problem. I have a nano 5th gen, blue 16gb and the data for the podsleuth ipod-model-tabel is: Nano 5 Blue 16 C066 None 72X Is there someone working on this problem? Or someone to support for this problem?
Thanks Samuel, I've added that model info.
There are a bunch of things that need to be done, such as setting the proper ModelNumber and FirewireId in the correct formats and generating a HashInfo file. All of these are required to be on the iPod in addition to the software supporting the new device. A summary of a bunch of work done by users on the ubuntuforums can be found in this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8803616&postcount=180
Please update the version. Will be get this fixed in 1.6.0 ?
libgpod-0.7.90 should fix this, then, maybe this could be solved in the future if banshee if migrated from ipod-sharp to libgpod as suggested in http://old.nabble.com/Proposal-to-move-Banshee-to-libgpod-td27712382.html
Rhythmbox works with my Ipod! Just waiting banshee support... :(
My son just got a 5th-gen ipod nano, and I installed 1.7.5 from the tarball on my fedora 13 laptop. The device is recognized, and dragging songs to it appears to work - progress bar goes through its paces, ogg files get the conversion treatment. Banshee shows the songs on the device. When I disconnect the nano, it says the songs are there, but trying to play any of them results in nothing happening. Mounting the device, I can find no actual trace of the song files, and banshee shows the device as having no songs. So it seems that banshee is populating the itunes db with the song info, but the songs themselves are not transferring.
What version of libgpod does your system have? Is it greater than 0.7.90 as required? If you start banshee from a terminal, are there any exceptions printed to the terminal which might give a hint as to why it's not working?
Created attachment 169612 [details] Attempting to transfer a song to a 5th-gen iPod nano
Comment on attachment 169612 [details] Attempting to transfer a song to a 5th-gen iPod nano This is the output from starting banshee, then importing a song into the library and trying to transfer that song to the nano. I've got libgpod 0.7.93 installed on a 64-bit fedora 13 system.
[9 Debug 12:44:30.976] Starting [9 Debug 12:44:31.450] Initialized MediaProfileManager: 0.393881 [9 Debug 12:44:31.516] GStreamer pipeline does not run: audioconvert ! novellaacenc bitrate=128000 profile=2 outputformat=0 ! novellqtmux [9 Debug 12:44:31.735] GStreamer pipeline does not run: audioconvert ! xingenc bitrate=128 ! id3v2mux [9 Debug 12:44:31.849] GStreamer pipeline does not run: audioconvert ! fluwmaenc bitrate=64000 vbr=false ! fluasfmux [9 Debug 12:44:31.908] Finished - Adding 1 of 1 to iPod Nano 5.Gen This log seems to imply banshee tries to do transcoding but fail to transcode for some reason (missing gstreamer plugins?) and that it doesn't report any error. Dunno if banshee is supposed to write something in the logs when a working pipeline was found (disclaimer, I've never looked at banshee's code ;)
Æ!! My 5g Ipod is now working on Ubuntu 10.10 using Banshee 1.8. I don't know why but nobody said anything about this bug correction here, so I was just thinking that nothing was made about it, and I was using Rhythmbox instead. I just works magically? Do you changed banshee code to solve it, or it works because Ubuntu updated a lot of other libraries? Tks for your attention guys! Regards, -- PotHix
Not magically, some guys but a tremendous effort to switch the backend to libgpod. Now all the new versions are working, and we have the same support as rhythmbox. I also have a nano 5th gen and it works. I think this bug should be closed as fixed. The problem starting from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599051#c13 is not the original problem or? Banshee with libgpod works.
Æ!! This comment mentioned by you is right and I was having the same symptoms. I think that this bug can be closed as fixed too! :) Two considerations to banshee developers: 1. I didn't knew that you are doing the efforts to port the backend to libgpod, but congratulation for the great work! 2. Please update your bug tracker to keep the reporters up to date, because on my point of view (point of view from a bug reporter that are not directly involved on banshee development) banshee developers was doing nothing to solve this problem, and you are working hard to get this thing to work! So it avoid me (and other ones) to say that developers are not giving attention to bugs and switch to another song player. :P Again, thank you for the great work! :) -- PotHix
Please close Bug as fixed
(In reply to comment #21) > Please close Bug as fixed Oops, not sure how this report slipped through the cracks, but thanks for the nudge (again).