Re: [Gtkpod-devel] web site home page error

[Joe F. <jf...@fe...>]

I occasionally use it like you, with an old iPod nano and a shuffle that I have
lying around. I have more music on my Android phone than on the 16gb nano.
The last time I compiled it was 6 years ago or so when I updated my Linux box to
64-bit.

-Joe

Jack via Gtkpod-devel wrote on 07/04/2020 12:43 PM:
> Thanks for that.  I'm curious if there is anyone out there still  
> actively using gtkpod.  I only fire it up rarely for an ancient iPod  
> Shuffle, and it's more nostalgia then real use - for which my android  
> phone is more than sufficient.  I suppose it's effectively abandonware  
> at this point.
> 
> Jack
> 
> On 2020.07.04 03:57, Paul Richardson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The original leader on the project was a German, Jorg Schuler. Given  
>> the whois info shows .de name servers I think he is still probably  
>> the owner.
>>
>> I took over gtkpod for a while and updated the UI but haven't used it  
>> let alone compiled it in years. My iPod is long since dead - I've  
>> moved on.
>>
>> Realistically, iPods/iPhones moved on too. We spent a couple of years  
>> playing cat n mouse with Apple. In the end, they just locked out  
>> access to the iPhone/iPod db so only iPods up to the Classic  
>> (roughly) worked with libgpod and gtkpod. This hastened gtkpod's  
>> decline in interest.
>>
>> If you or anyonelse wishes to take over then happy to help with any  
>> transition. However, can't do much about the domain.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On 4 July 2020 00:38:03 BST, Jack via Gtkpod-devel  
>> <gtk...@li...> wrote:
>>> On 2020.05.13 11:23, Jack via Gtkpod-devel wrote:
>>>> http://www.gtkpod.org gives
>>>> Database error
>>>> A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug
>>>> in the software. The last attempted database query was:
>>>>
>>>>     (SQL query hidden)
>>>>
>>>> from within function "Job::pop". MySQL returned error "1146: Table
>>>> 'DB21816.gp_job' doesn't exist (80.81.241.56)".
>>>>
>>>> If that's an IP address, I wonder if this is because the site's IP
>>>> address changed "recently"
>>>>
>>>> Separately, https://www.gtkpod.org returns only an empty page
>>>> (content is "<br><br><br><H1><center></center></H1>") so I don't  
>> know
>>>
>>>> if that's a configuration issue or simply a lack of certificate.
>>>>
>>>> Jack
>>>
>>> Does anyone know who owns the gtkpod.org domain?  It looks like it  
>> was
>>>
>>> renewed in May, so it's not abandoned.  If someone doesn't fix the
>>> database error, it seem likely that Gentoo will drop the package.   
>> I've
>>>
>>> been unsuccessfully trying to get it to compile with gcc-10, which is
>>> another issue that will affect an increasing number of distros.
>>>
>>> Jack
>>>
>>>
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