[Gllug] Linux friendly mp3 player

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 12:02:51AM +0000, Nix wrote:
> On 18 Jan 2008, Holger Duerer uttered the following:
> 
> >>>>>> "Ivan" == Ivan Virgili <ivnmad at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >     Ivan> Stuart wrote:
> >     >> AIUI the latest generation iPods don't work like this. You
> >     >> still need to regenerate their database for them to recognise
> >     >> audio files. I had no luck with a new iPod nano and gtkpod when
> >     >> I tried this...
> >
> >     Ivan> Hi Stuart,
> >
> >     Ivan> No problems here with Fedora 8, iPod 2GB gen. 5 and gtkpod.
> >
> > The latest models (classic and latestet nanos) are completely
> > different.
> 
> The newest iPods are still USB Mass Storage devices, so Linux can still
> read/write to them with no trouble: the problem is that the
> iPod-specific database that the Apple firmware uses to find the files
> is now, IIRC, cryptographically signed :/ (I may be misremembering: it
> may be full-blown encryption. Whichever, reverse-engineering is surely
> possible, but may be harder than it's worth.)

It was done within days of release and is supported in the latest
libgpod release...

http://gtkpod.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gtkpod/libgpod/trunk/NEWS

Dan.
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