Ipod touch on Ubuntu
by admin on Jun.16, 2010, under Uncategorized
This has been a sticking point for a while. You can access your ipod touch/iphone on your windows machine using itunes or any number of other third party pieces of software, you can access from your MAC in a similar fashion but up till now, not from a Linux box.
Luckily those clever chaps at Ubuntu (and most likely a whole load of other Linux derivatives), have done some magic and got it working. The original problem was a driver issue, the touch’s file system couldn’t be identified under Linux and while the ‘public’ areas could be seen once the device was plugged in (and for that read – Photos), nothing else was visible.
The latest upgrade works great however. I can now access the entire ipod filesystem as an external hard drive and Rythmnbox boots up nicely as soon as I plug the ipod in and starts playing Kylie like she’s never sung before. Even proprietry formats like MP4 seem to work.
Strangely this change in circumstances hasn’t been advertised widely, I don’t know if there’s some political things going on but anyway, upgrade to the latest version on your Linux box and your ipod touch and iphone should now work fine. It can even synch the music onto your linux box (although with my linux netbook only having 16G I’ve avoided doing this).
