Album Art work not uploading to iPod Nano 2 gen

[Scott Templer]

Binary package hint: amarok

After all required codecs are installed to play back mp3, i verified that libgpod was at 0.4.0, kinda weird that there are 2 of them (libgpod0 0.40 and libgpod1 0.42). any ways according to the Amarok web site said it would work with the version that is currently installed. I set up my iPod Nano 2nd Gen 2GB telling Amarok what iPod it is. But it still isn't transferring album art to the iPod. This could be a Amarok thing but it worked in edgy when libgpod was compiled from source. the ipod would get the album art but the songs wouldn't play. Now in Feisty it still don't work.

ProblemType: Bug
Date: Fri Feb 23 17:28:17 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux Scotts-Laptop 2.6.20-8-generic #2 SMP Tue Feb 13 05:18:42 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Michael Ummels (urmel291)]

I can confirm this bug. Artwork used to work on my iPod Nano 1st Gen 4G with Amarok 1.4.3. (and probably 1.4.4) but is broken in 1.4.5. On

http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Media_Device:IPod#Artwork_not_working

it is also confirmed as a bug:

"Version 1.4.5 introduced support for setting the iPod model from within Amarok, however this does not work, making artwork and video transfer impossible. Amarok 1.4.6 will fix this."

[Jean-Tristan Chanegue (chanegue)]

I can confirm this bug too on Feisty

[Sakumatti Luukkonen (sakumatti-luukkonen)]

Uploading Artwork to my 4th gen Color iPod works perfectly in Feisty after I installed libgdk-pixbuf2. Maybe it should be automatically installed with amarok?

[Andrew Ash (ash211)]

Sounds good to me. The only possible objections that people may have could be:

 - libgdk-pixbuf2 is in universe now, so it would need a main inclusion report
 - it also depends on libgtk1.2, which might raise worries from minimalists that Amarok, and therefore Kubuntu would now depend on a lot of gtk libraries. I think they sum
to at least a few megs, so there might need to be some consideration as to fitting it on the CD, etc. Not something I'm personally worried about, I've just heard such
arguments against packages like this before.

Thanks for the tip of installing this, though.

[Michael Ummels (urmel291)]

Artwork is now working for me again after manually setting the iPod Model with gtkpod. I had set the iPod Model with Amarok before, which does not work (see http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Media_Device:IPod#Artwork_not_working). I tried with having libgdk-pixbuf2 installed and without having it installed, and it worked in both cases, so I doubt having libgdk-pixbuf2 installed is a necessary requirement for uploading artwork with amarok. Can anybody confirm this?

[Michael Gorven (mgorven)]

Same problem here with Amarok 1.4.5. Setting the model in gtkpod and then updating artwork in Amarok fixed it (as above). I don't have libgdk-pixbuf2 installed.

[Anders (andersja+launchpad-net)]

Running the latest Hardy Heron alpha I don't have any problem with neither this nano nor a 3G nano any more.

[Michael Ummels (urmel291)]

This bug was fixed upstream.