On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 10:28 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 22:31 -0800, Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
> On 12/13/2009 02:20 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 17:38 -0600, Peter Danenberg wrote:
> >
> >> Quoth Patrick O'Callaghan on Sweetmorn, the 54th of The Aftermath:
> >>
> >>> Alternatively, you could jailbreak the phone and copy files using
> >>> scp. I don't know if the phone will then recognize them as
something
> >>> it can play, but I wouldn't bet on it.
> >>>
> >> I was able to use gtkpod[1] on a jailbroken iphone to transfer music,
> >> manage playlists, photos, etc.
> >>
> > I was under the impression that gtkpod didn't yet support the iPhone.
> > The webpage doesn't appear to mention it explicitly. Glad to see I was
> > wrong.
> >
> > poc
> >
> >
>
> Please share.
>
> I have an iPhone 3Gs, and I can't get it to work with gtkpod.
>
> It mounts on the desktop as "Apple, Inc. iPhone" but that's all.
According to the gtkpod Help doc (under Troubleshooting) the iPhone and
iPod Touch can only be accessed via sshfs, meaning you have to jailbreak
them.
Somewhat OT: I recently bought a Pay-And-Go iPhone from O2 in the UK and
was delighted to find that they will unlock it on payment of a fee (15
pounds). This appears to be in response to competition from Vodaphone
and Orange, which recently started selling iPhones. Since my main
motivation for unlocking was to use other Sim cards, I'll probably avoid
the jailbreak route for now and use MediaMonkey under a VM to transfer
my media content. On my netbook it's fast and functional where iTunes is
molasses slow and bloated. Of course you can't use it for a full sync,
but that wasn't the question.
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just a point of reference... I actually use my Windows computer with
iTunes to manage my iPod instead of using Linux and use Media Monkey
(nice program btw) to manage artwork/idtags and use ITDB (iTunes Data
Base) to clue iTunes into the changes made by Media Monkey (I'm
obsessive but I have a lot of CD's).
For some reason that I have never spent any time trying to figure out,
iTunes is extremely slow to sync mp3 files but very fast to sync m4a
files. I wouldn't have known this except that my daughter gave me a few
mp3 files which I was watching when they were syncing and I was shocked
at the speed difference. If you 'convert' them to m4a, they will get
loaded very fast. I suspect that Apple does some mini-conversion to mp3
files when it puts them on an iPod.
Craig
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