Re: [Gtkpod-devel] iOS5 (iPad2) and music sync

[Jon D. <jo...@pe...>]

On 18 Dec 2011, at 19:54, Christophe Fergeau <cfe...@gm...> wrote:

> Sorry for the late answer,
>
> 2011/12/15 Jon Dye <jo...@pe...>:
>>
>> I have an iPad2 with iOS 5.0.1 and would like to help with getting
>> this working if possible.

>> What would be the best way for me to
>> get involved with this particular aspect?
>
> The best way to approach this problem would be to first try to see if
> music syncing is done similarly as what was done in iOS4,

>  From what I heard, it's now doing something quite
> different, so the next step would be to figure out what it's doing, if
> it's changing some files on the iPhone, or using a dedicated protocol
> at the libimobiledevice level, ...

Ok, I'll have a poke around and see if I can work out what's
happening.  I've never put any music on this thing yet so that's a
good starting point.  I also have access to a USB analyser if it turns
out to be a new protocol.

> Feel free to come to visit on IRC if you want a live discussion about
> this (irc.freenode.net #gtkpod), or to ask more questions as it is
> just a quick summary

It's enough to get me started but I'll pop in to irc if I need to discuss.

Thanks,

JD