Has anyone tried the new ipod shuffle? How's it seen by linux? Just a
USB mass storage? Or again using gtkpod?
--
Sensei <mailto:senseiwa@tin.it> <pgp:8998A2DB>
<icqnum:241572242>
<yahoo!:sensei_sen>
<msn-id:sensei_sen@hotmail.com>

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

quote:
Originally posted by Sensei 
[B]Has anyone tried the new ipod shuffle? How's it seen by linux? Just a
USB mass storage? Or again using gtkpod?
 

Yup it's just a flash drive as far as linux is concerned, the downside right
 now is that none of the linux ipod software works with it, I've tried gnupo
d and gtkpod so far with no luck. and iTunes 4.7 is required to sync, so it 
won't work with crossover either 

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

Just got mine. It appears to be just plain old USB mass storage.
Mounted in w/o any issues using: mount -t vfat /dev/uba1 /mnt/usb
Haven't tried anything too fancy yet, but the directory structure, with
just one song on it is listed below.
The device shows up as:
cat /proc/bus/usb gives:

T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  2
P:  Vendor=05ac ProdID=1300 Rev=10.01
S:  Manufacturer=Apple
S:  Product=iPod
S:  SerialNumber=000A270010003215
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=500mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=ub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
C:  #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 2 Atr=80 MxPwr=100mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms


ls -alR /mnt/usb
/mnt/usb:
total 12
drwxr--r--   3 root wheel 4096 Dec 31  1969 .
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root  4096 Jan 19 19:00 ..
drwxr--r--   4 root wheel 4096 Jan 19 12:08 iPod_Control

/mnt/usb/iPod_Control:
total 16
drwxr--r--  4 root wheel 4096 Jan 19 12:08 .
drwxr--r--  3 root wheel 4096 Dec 31  1969 ..
drwxr--r--  5 root wheel 4096 Jan 19 12:08 Music
drwxr--r--  2 root wheel 4096 Jan 19 12:08 iTunes

/mnt/usb/iPod_Control/Music:
total 20
drwxr--r--  5 root wheel 4096 Jan 19 12:08 .
drwxr--r--  4 root wheel 4096 Jan 19 12:08 ..
drwxr--r--  2 root wheel 4096 Jan 19 12:08 f00
drwxr--r--  2 root wheel 4096 Jan 19 12:08 f01
drwxr--r--  2 root wheel 4096 Jan 19 12:08 f02

/mnt/usb/iPod_Control/Music/f00:
total 8
drwxr--r--  2 root wheel 4096 Jan 19 12:08 .
drwxr--r--  5 root wheel 4096 Jan 19 12:08 ..

/mnt/usb/iPod_Control/Music/f01:
total 3644
drwxr--r--  2 root wheel    4096 Jan 19 12:08 .
drwxr--r--  5 root wheel    4096 Jan 19 12:08 ..
-rwxr--r--  1 root wheel 3720989 Jan 19 16:35 01 Take It Easy _Love
Nothi.m4p

/mnt/usb/iPod_Control/Music/f02:
total 8
drwxr--r--  2 root wheel 4096 Jan 19 12:08 .
drwxr--r--  5 root wheel 4096 Jan 19 12:08 ..

/mnt/usb/iPod_Control/iTunes:
total 312
drwxr--r--  2 root wheel   4096 Jan 19 12:08 .
drwxr--r--  4 root wheel   4096 Jan 19 12:08 ..
-rwxr--r--  1 root wheel   1536 Jan 19 16:37 DeviceInfo
-rwxr--r--  1 root wheel   1088 Jan 19 16:37 iEKInfo
-rwxr--r--  1 root wheel 262144 Jan 19 12:10 iTunesControl
-rwxr--r--  1 root wheel   2616 Jan 19 16:37 iTunesDB
-rwxr--r--  1 root wheel  13040 Jan 19 16:27 iTunesEQPresets
-rwxr--r--  1 root wheel     21 Dec 27  2002 iTunesPState
-rwxr--r--  1 root wheel      0 Jan 19 16:29 iTunesPlaylists
-rwxr--r--  1 root wheel    248 Jan 19 16:37 iTunesPrefs
-rwxr--r--  1 root wheel    576 Jan 19 16:37 iTunesSD
-rwxr--r--  1 root wheel     24 Dec 27  2002 iTunesStats
-rwxr--r--  1 root wheel     16 Jan 19 16:37 winPrefs

Anyway, the shuffle is awesome, especially if you don't really care to
know what you're listening to, since it doesn't have a display.

Sensei wrote:
> Has anyone tried the new ipod shuffle? How's it seen by linux? Just a

> USB mass storage? Or again using gtkpod?
> --
> Sensei <mailto:senseiwa@tin.it> <pgp:8998A2DB>
>         <icqnum:241572242>
>         <yahoo!:sensei_sen>
>         <msn-id:sensei_sen@hotmail.com>

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

>Just got mine. It appears to be just plain old USB mass storage.

If you copy another song to it, will it play that song in rotation
automatically? Or does it require bullshit proprietary playlist setup
software like iTunes?

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

On 20 Jan 2005 05:10:51 -0800, larwe@larwe.com wrote: 
>
> If you copy another song to it, will it play that song in rotation
> automatically? Or does it require bullshit proprietary playlist setup
> software like iTunes?
>

Does gtkpod work with it?  Gtkpod on my ipod 40g handles all of the stuff
that iTunes normally would.

--
Michael Perry | do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda
mperry@lnxpowered.org | http://www.lnxpowered.org

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

sorry for not responding.  I gave the shuffle to my wife as a birthday
present, and now she won't let me near it :-))  I see if I can get to
it one of these days to do some "experiments" on it.. .

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

quote:
Originally posted by Michael Perry 

Does gtkpod work with it?  Gtkpod on my ipod 40g handles all of the stuff
that iTunes normally would.



Yep, works like a charm. 

I have a 1GB Shuffle, and one of my workstations at the office is a Power Ma
c G4 running Gentoo Linux. I installed gtkpod 0.85 on it via portage. 

I mounted the Shuffle using:

modprobe usb_storage
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/ipod

Once it was mounted, gtkpod was nice and happy.

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]