This is actually a problem with all iPods it seems, but I can’t get any of them to work on Linux Mint, or any distro. There are literally programs on the repos for working with iPods that show up if you search “iPod” and none of them actually with the four iPods I was recently given. The most popular one google results reccomend is GTKpod, and GTKpod has a helpful seems that seems to let you actually pick and choose which one you are connecting, even by color, because I guess that matters. On every iPod I’ve tried on GTKpod on Linux Mint and on Manjaro, none work. All either just silently hang with no error message or spit out a slew of different error messages. The one I’m trying to make it work with the most is the iPod Nano Gen 3 Pink because I want to give it away as a gift to someone with a Linux Mint computer. But nothing seems to work with them. Does anyone know what’s up with that?
You may want to check out section 4.2 of this Arch Wiki page.
Okay, that helps a bit, but, looking at 4.2, it says
create or edit /mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/Device/SysInfo
But then it won’t let me create it because it doesn’t exist.
No such file or directory
I’ve never seen that before. I tried it again with sudo and it gave the same error. How can I create the Sysinfo file if it already needs to be created in order for me to create it?
And Rhtymbox gives the error “Could not open resource for writing.”
That does not work either, GTKpod gives an of “failed to open (path to ipod) for writing(read only filesystem)”
GTKpod hasn’t been updated in quite a while, and though it still works, it takes a bit of manual labor to get running on a modern system. Specifically, the mounting and permissions need to be looked at. Check your syslog, and run GTKpod from the command line so you can see the error log if any
maybe install rockbox?
The don’t make Rockbox for these newer iPods.
