Re: [Gtkpod-questions] Broken play counts and ratings on iPod touch

[Pieter De D. <pde...@gm...>]

>
> The docs say that it maps fairly closely to the C libgpod API.
>
I have no programming experience with Linux whatsoever so I can't dig into
this unfortunately.

@developers: would it be of any help if I granted you access to my iPod
using SSH? I don't have the skills to track down the problem but perhaps you
can.

Pieter

On Jan 16, 2008 9:29 PM, David <wiz...@gm...> wrote:

> On Jan 16, 2008 9:52 PM, Pieter De Decker <pde...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > > Command-line tools for ipod:gnupod-tools
> > >
> > Okay, so I played a song that I've never played or rated before, I gave
> it a
> > rating and then checked its rating and play count using gnupod_search.
> >
> > The program returned this:
> > > RTNG|CNT
> > > ==========
> > > 0   |0
> > >
> > (the rating should have been 3 and the play count should have been 1)
> >
> > This is interesting. gnupod-tools also fails to fetch the correct
> > information. Hmm... do gnupod-tools and libgpod have some code in
> common?
> >
>
> I think that gnopod-tools is an independent implementation in perl. It
> doesn't have any libgpod dependencies.
>
> These are all the Debian packages (testing/lenny) which have a libgpod
> dependancy:
>
>  rhythmbox
>  python-gpod
>  libgpod3-nogtk
>  libgpod-dev
>  libgpod-common
>  kipi-plugins
>  gtkpod
>  amarok
>
> The simplest to use from the command line would probably be
> python-gpod. It has examples under
> /usr/share/doc/python-gpod/examples/. play_with_ipod_api.py is
> probably a good starting point for experimentation. The docs say that
> it maps fairly closely to the C libgpod API.
>
> David.
>