Amarok cannot transfer files from my ipod to my collection

[lazyboy]

Binary package hint: amarok

when i try to transfer mp3's from my ipod (iPod nano 3g 4gb silver) to my collection, i keep getting an error that says that amarok was unable to organize the file. i am using Ubuntu eee on my asus eee pc 701. I really need to get this fixed, because all of my music is stored on my ipod as i have a very limited amount of disk space.

[wl2776 (wl2776)]

This bug has already appeared in previous Ubuntu releases, and was fixed. Now it is back again :((

This is because the capital F in the path (... /Music/F ... ).
There is no such folder on the iPod, actual folder names begin with the small f.

[lazyboy (lazyboy994)]

so how can i fix this problem?

[wl2776 (wl2776)]

Ha!
I've solved the problem.

I had in my /etc/fstab the following two lines:

/dev/sdf1 /media/sdf1 auto users,noauto,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/sdg1 /media/sdg1 auto users,noauto,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,iocharset=utf8 0 0

They helped Amarok to properly disconnect the ipod

I just commented them out.

[wl2776 (wl2776)]

Forgot to mention, I've recently upgraded my Ubuntu to 8.10.

I have never paid too much attention to these lines, I just copied them to fstab from the output of the mount command.
Moreover, now I see, these lines are incorrect: they have "noauto" and "auto".

[lazyboy (lazyboy994)]

I'm not to sure what to do here. this is what is in the file /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=f0dde2b0-51e2-4dd1-b794-eac911823fac / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=f8b8eb73-cb30-43b8-915d-a08f719f6eb9 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

So what do I need to do?

[wl2776 (wl2776)]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:35:46 -0000
lazyboy <email address hidden> wrote:

> I'm not to sure what to do here. this is what is in the
> file /etc/fstab

So am I.
In short, your fstab is default, as was installed.
I can only recommend to add a line to fstab, descibing the ipod, and play with mount options.

Here is the output of the mount command on my system, when ipod is mounted, those lines for ipod in /etc/fstab are still commented.

/dev/sdf1 on /media/IPOD WL type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umask=077,flush)

$ uname -r
2.6.27-9-generic

[lazyboy (lazyboy994)]

i'm still a bit confused as exactly what i need to do.

[wl2776 (wl2776)]

You didn't specify your Ubuntu version.
Perhaps, you should upgrade in to 8.10

Anyway, I can give you only a general direction to search.

1. Bring up the terminal window, plug in your device and type 'mount'. You'll see a list of filesystems.

2. Find your ipod mount point. Basing on your screenshot, it probably will be /media/LAZYBOY994

3. Note the device id ( /dev/ .. what? ), the type of the filesystem and list of options.

4 .Type ls -la /media/LAZYBOY/iPod_Control/Music/
You should see a list of folders named F??, where ?? are digits (F01, F02, etc). Letters should be capital.

With my fstab, left from the previous Ubuntu version, I was seeing small letters (f01, f02, etc )

5. Unmount the device ('umount /media/LAZYBOY994')
Probably you'll need to run the command with sudo ('sudo umount etc')

6. Type 'man mount' and study this manual page.

7. Type 'sudo mkdir /media/ipod'
type sudo 'chown you:your_groupd /media/ipod' (substitute you:your_group with actual names)

8. Repeat 'mount /dev/ ipod device /media -t vfat -o options' (substitute options with actual values learned from the manual)
and unmount, if unsuccessful, until you see capital letters in iPod_Control/Music

[lazyboy (lazyboy994)]

hi, i've done steps 1 through to 6. but i'm a bit confused as what to do in the last two steps. Sorry about this.

[wl2776 (wl2776)]

It looks like you didn't study the manual (step 6) and didn't learn what the command 'mount' is for and how to use it.

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

It looks like wl2776 is trying to give a workaround to get files from the iPod to the disk, but the real issue is that the feature in Amarok isn't working.

Lazyboy, were you able to get this issue resolved? If not, please try upgrading to the latest version of Amarok and letting us know what steps you're taking that are failing. Please provide the version of Amarok as well -- ''apt-cache policy amarok''

Thanks!

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as requested in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the "Status" column, and change the status back to "New". Thanks again!