Comment 6 for bug 883962

Seeing same problem with gtkpod 2.1.0 installed on Ubuntu 11.10 and gtkpod 2.1.2 on Lubuntu 12.10; trying to load data to an old iPod Photo

Just before the error dialogue re .m4a files not being recognized, there is a couple of errors reported related to trying to write to the users home directory (eg /home/user ) and 'user.ext'.

gtkpod also does not seem to be consistent in terms of the how/when/if it recognizes the mounted / loaded iPod; dmesg contains complaints about sending ioctl 2285 to a partition.

Fix described above by keplicz works for me on the Lubuntu system (not yet tried the 11.10 machine).

NOTE: you need ensure that whatever programme is creating the .m4a files, the mp3/mp4 'tag fields' are populated with artist name, track etc (not sure what the minimum requirement is).