On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 16:19 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Jose Celestino wrote: > > And most certainly a bunch of troubles making it build the db if > > apple insists on their lockup policy. > > It's surely not as nice as if they just kept everything open, but i'm > still not convinced that the changes in the new iPod's are designed to > stop other software from writing to the iPod as much as it is to > ensure that 1 iPod goes with 1 iTunes. > > It didn't take long at all for the changes to be reverse engineered. > It won't be long until the software for linux can write to the new > iPod's as seemlessly as before. :) I just had to pull down a svn snapshot of libgpod and gtkpod to get my new iPod to work seamlessly like before with my old 4th gen iPod in F7. Had to rebuild a could of packages like Amarok and one other that I had installed to get them to work with the svn snapshot.