Re: iPod Nano Gen. 6 Integration

Thanks! I'll hold out and see who chimes in.

Joe

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 1:55 PM, phantomjinx <
[email protected]> wrote:

> **
> Joe Dougherty <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I read that somewhere as well. If memory serves, the latest release of
>> libgpod has hooks in it that allow for the loading of third party "plug-in"
>> libraries to provide additional functionality. These hooks could be used to
>> load additional libraries that include the hash functions necessary to
>> generate the correct checksums for the iPod Nano 6g music database.
>>
>> I am not familiar with the API defined by the hooks, and I absolutely
>> have no idea where to start when it comes to investigating the correct way
>> to generate the checksum for the Nano 6g and others. Can any of the
>> experienced libgpod team give me some pointers?
>>
>> To phantomjinx's point, I understand that this is a small project and
>> that people have commitments elsewhere. I have lots of travel and family
>> stuff going on this time of year. I work full time and am taking grad
>> school courses. At the same time, this problem bugs me, so I'd like to
>> throw some of my free time at it. Any guidance that people can share would
>> be great.
>>
>> Happy holiday's to those that celebrate them!
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Joe
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Florian Echtler <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> > This Christmas I got an iPod Nano Gen. 6. When I tried to Sync it to my
>>> > computer running Ubuntu (10.04) via Rhythmbox (0.12.8) it didn't work.
>>> I
>>> > did research, and found that gtkpod doesn't support 6th gen. Nanos
>>> yet. Do
>>> > you know how soon support will be added? I cannot use my iPod until it
>>> is,
>>> > because I have no other computer. Thank you for your time.
>>> AFAICT from the source code, the latest version of libgpod can use a
>>> binary library called libhashab.so to sync an iPod nano 6G.
>>>
>>> Haven't tried this yet myself, another holiday project :-).
>>>
>>> Florian
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>>
> Your best point of contact would be teuf. He is the principal dev for
> libgpod whilst I maintain gtkpod. He does keep an eye on the lists as do I
> so maybe give it a few days and he may reply directly.
>
> Any help on the project is much appreciated.
>
> Phantomjinx
>
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