Economy Size Geek

So my old Ipod’s battery has given up the ghost. I was thinking about getting another replacement battery but my wife convinced me I’d be much happier if I could watch video on my ipod.

I haven’t been paying much attention to them lately - so I didn’t know about the new hash required to allow Amarok and gtkpod to talk to the newer Ipods. I’ll get to that in a second.

Let’s start with a more boneheaded issue I’ve found myself in.

I have two shuffles (old and new) and now I’m adding in the new Ipod. I wanted to make sure that it was clear which was which. The easiest way to do this in Ubuntu is to edit the mount point. You can let Gnome auto mount the Ipod and right click and select “Properties”.

On the last tab “Volume” you can actually set the Mount Point. There is one small trick to this -

1. You are only specifying the final point - so you don’t need to put /media/Classic_IPOD - only Classic_IPOD
2. If you actually put in /media/Classic_IPOD you will no longer be able to mount your ipod automatically

This isn’t the first time I’ve run into this situation. It turns out there is an arcane solution - run gconf-editor (it’s the registry editor for Gnome). Now navigate to /system/storage/volumes - inside there should be a _org_freedesktop entry for your ipod with the bad mount point. Correct it. Disconnect the Ipod. Reconnect. You should be good to go.