ipod on arch linux

1) get rhythmbox or dont

2) Setup HAL/DBUS

sudo gpasswd -a username hal
sudo gpasswd -a username dbus

Make sure 'hal' is in your daemons array down at the bottom of rc.conf.

something fails?

# dmesg | tail

3) mount  the ipod:

sudo mkdir /mnt/ipod
sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/ipod

4) vim /etc/fstab
add line at end:  /dev/sdb2 /mnt/ipod vfat user,noauto,unhide 0 0 //vfat?

- reboot!

NOW:

mount /dev/sdb2
umount /dev/sdb2

Make some symlinks, etc .

5) Use rhythmbox to play music (if open, and hal is setup, it should autodetect the ipod)-

otherwise? browse /mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/music folders. garbled folder names and filenames. maybe someone will make a cmd line too to play stuff there.

Notes on that:   generate m3u playlist that references ipod folders. use mp3info lib