[Gtkpod-questions] Re: GTKPod copies tracks incompletely

[Jorg S. <Jor...@gm...>]

Hi Amit,

I'll put my comments in your original mails.

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 05:59:11PM -0800, Amit J. Sabnis wrote:
> Follow-up: just plugged my iPod in and tried to run GTKPod, which lagged
> for a long time before displaying the following message:
> 
> iTunesDB '/mnt/pod/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB' does not match checksum
> in extended information file '/mnt/pod/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB.ext'
> gtkpod will try to match the information using MD5 checksums. If
> successful, this may take a while.

You probably used the iPod with another software. Extended information can
then only be reconstructed using the MD5 checksums. No need to be alarmed.

> Using bash to check out the files, I found that they were both owned by
> me, although the last-edited date on iTunesDB appears to be (!) Dec 31
> 1969.  That date is attached to iTunesPrefs and Device Info as well,
> though not iTunesControl.

No idea. Shouldn't be important.

> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Amit J. Sabnis wrote:
> 
> > Not sure how to phrase this problem, but I can't seem to find any mention
> > of it anywhere else.
> >
> > I'm using GTKPod 0.85.0 with a FC3 system and a 15 GB iPod (vfat).  I have
> > absolutely no problems getting songs onto my iPod with iTunes, but the
> > inconvenience of rebooting into Win2k and mounting my Ext3 drives as
> > read-only makes me less than excited about this option.
> >
> > When using GTKPod, as far as I can tell about ~90% of the time things go
> > absolutely fine.  However, after a certain number of transfers, I start
> > getting tracks that somehow don't copy properly at all.  When I play them
> > on the iPod, they consistently will go a little while (~2 minutes on
> > average although a few don't start at all) and then just cut out entirely,
> > locking the iPod interface for 45 seconds until it skips ahead to the next
> > song.

Did you check if the playtime matches the real time? Another thought is that
you might have messed up the iPod filesystem somehow (disconnected without
unmounting, firewire/usb kernel problem...). dosfsck /mnt/ipod might help to
fix the filesystem. So does reformatting. Do you get any i/o errors in the
system log?

> > These songs don't show up on any of GTKPod's error checks, and when I try
> > to 'update' them from disk, GTKPod locks up and I have to force it to quit
> > and do an umount -l on my iPod.

That's another indication that something is wrong "low-level" on file system
basis. gtkpod can't do anything about it.

Cheers,


JCS.


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