[Gtkpod-questions] iPod Nano 7G support

[Hans O. <ha...@oe...>]

Hi,

My son just has been given an iPod nano (7G) (model 2012/2013).
First of all, it is being formatted with hfsplus by OS X with journalling
enabled.
So I used diskutil to remove journalling. Now the device can be be mounted
rw in linux.

Next, so turns out, the device has a lot of user root/group root files. and
all iPod stuff
has uid 99/gid 99.

So I did: chown -R hans.hans /media/disk/iPod_Control
Next I did:

sudo umount /media/disk
sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /media/disk -o uid=1000,gid=1000

Now the device is recognized by banshee (using gtkpod) and banshee can put
music
on the device. However, it cannot update the music database. I get the
following warning:

encountered iPod thumb with ID = 0.

** (Banshee:20266): CRITICAL **: file db-artwork-writer.c: line 1085
(ipod_artwork_mark_new_doubles): should not be reached

** (Banshee:20266): CRITICAL **: itdb_splr_validate: assertion `at !=
ITDB_SPLAT_UNKNOWN' failed

(Banshee:20266): GLib-WARNING **:
(/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.32.3/./glib/gerror.c:390):g_error_new_valist:
runtime check failed: (domain != 0)
[Warn  17:26:40.806] Failed to save iPod database - GLib.GException:
Unsupported checksum type (in `libgpod-sharp')
  at GPod.ITDB.Write () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at Banshee.Dap.AppleDevice.AppleDeviceSource.SyncDatabase
(Banshee.ServiceStack.UserJob progressUpdater) [0x00000] in <filename
unknown>:0

Is there a solution for this problem?

Thanks in advance for answers,

Hans