Questions[ipod](ubuntu)

1. What ubuntu applications provide support? (guides, how to's, status)

2. Also, specifically, details on support for syncing music to iPhone's and iPod's with the latest OS version:

   • Can you sync music to apple devices using >iOS4? (iPhone & iPod)
   • What applications allow you to do this and how? (guides, how to's, status)

What has already been established is:

• Apple does not support Linux and has no plans to.
• libimobiledevice provides some support, however it currently does not support music/video synchronization with devices >iOS4. Go to libimobiledevice and scroll to the section titled "Status" to see if your device version is supported.

I'm having no luck at all with this iPod Nano.

I've tried the following software:

• Banshee - The iPod shows up and files seem to be copied, but they don't show up on the iPod.
• Rhythmbox - Same as Banshee. Claims to sync but no files available on the iPod
• gPodder - At first it wouldn't even recognize the device even though I set the mount point and device type. After syncing one file to the iPod from iTunes on my mac it now behaves as Banshee and Rythmbox.
• gtkpod - Again: Copies the files but they are inacessible on the iPod.
• Hipo - Doesn't even recognize the iPod
• Amarok - What is this, I don't even...

So to summarize: After some fiddling I can get most of these apps to recognize the iPod and copy files to it, but they are not accessible on the iPod which sort of defeats the whole purpose.

Help me out here. My continued harmonic love life depends on it. (Yes, it's the girlfriends iPod and laptop)

Whenever I plug my iPod Touch (2nd gen) into my MacBook running Ubuntu 10.10 I get the following error:

DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

It will show up in the file browser but whenever I try to mount it I get that error.

EDIT: I thought that this might be because I had it plugged into a dock, but I tried plugging it in directly to the MacBook with the USB Cable and it still does not work, same error message.

I am running Banshee 1.8.0 on a more-or-less vanilla Meerkat installation. I was most pleased when I plugged in an old iPod Nano and it Just Worked.

However, when plugging in the iPod, Nautilus/Gnome asks for an application to handle the newly inserted iPod. The dialog presents no applications that can handle the device and allows no manual choice.

I have reinstalled banshee with apt-get purge and also install --reinstall but neither added an association. As before, when manually opened, banshee happily talks to the iPod, it just won't launch on plug.

I suspect there is a missing association in gconf or something similar but I'm not sure where this information lives.

I need to update firmware of my iPod Touch (iPhone) in Ubuntu and as I have jailbroken iPod Touch I need iTunes to install apps, but unfortunately haven't found any ways to do that in Ubuntu yet. I know that it is possible to use VirtualBox or Wine, but still in the most of the times iTunes doesn't want to work on Wine and for VirtualBox I need to install again that Windows from which I switched into Ubuntu just a few months ago and don't want to go back to it.

What do Linux users who have iPod Touch(iPhone) do in this case?

Any suggestions to solve the problem will be pleased.

And finally,how long will it be before Apple develops iTunes for Linux OS?