My laptop came with Vista but no installation disk, so, even though I have a Windows licence, I can't make a Vista VM to install iTunes. I could not install the latest version of iTunes on Windows 2000. This 4GB Shuffle needs a v8 iTunes or later. So I reluctantly admitted defeat and installed v7 iTunes on my Windows 2000 VM in Virtualbox. This is surely the fundamental problem? With no libgpod support, other interfaces like gtkPod and Rhythmbox aren't going to provide it. GtkPod mailing list post 2 ( 1c59a40132725ae2%&forum_name=gtkpod-devel) GtkPod mailing list post 1 ( ce4556f871abe721%&forum_name=gtkpod-devel) Looking at the gtkPod mailing lists, it looks like there isn't the development resource to support this Shuffle in the near future: There appears to have been some recent development to create v0.99.8. I should go back and try that again I guess. Got some errors about SHA1 that I didn't look into. Tried the latest release of gnupod but couldn't get it to build. Tried another Shuffle model in the drop-down, but it won't rebuild the indexes.įound a Python script called rebuild_db and that runs and does something that looks promising but it won't play anything. I've tried gtkPod and, again, it's recognised but there's no option for this model of player. But it doesn't rebuild the indexes and it won't play: "Please use iTunes to sync music to this iPod" is all I get when I switch it on. It comes up as a USB device in Ubuntu, Rhythmbox recognises it, and I can load MP3 files onto it. It would appear that Apple have changed the format of the indexing on this generation of iPod. Having received a 4GB iPod Shuffle as a Christmas present, I am in the same boat.
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