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GNUpod

Manage your iPod

Adrian Ulrich

Overview:

1. GNUpod
2. Requirements
3. Installing GNUpod
4. Using GNUpod
5. Problems
A. GNU Free Documentation License

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1. GNUpod

This edition of the GNUpod Manual, last updated 8. Mar. 2003, documents GNUpod Version 0.28

2. Requirements  What you will need to use GNUpod
3. Installing GNUpod  How to install GNUpod and setup FireWire
4. Using GNUpod  How to use the GNUpod-tools
5. Problems  ..and solutions

Appendices

A. GNU Free Documentation License  This manual is under the GNU Free Documentation License.


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2. Requirements

To use GNUpod, the follwing is needed:

GNUpod is known to run on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Darwin (Mac OSX) and Solaris 9.


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3. Installing GNUpod

3.1 Installation of GNUpod  How to install the Scripts
3.2 Using FireWire with GNU/Linux  Setup FireWire on Linux
3.3 Convert your Mac iPod  How to convert an HFS+ formatted iPod
3.4 Firmware update  How to upgrade the Firmware using GNU/Linux


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3.1 Installation of GNUpod

The installation of GNUpod is very simple:

 
tar -xzvf gnupod-tools-VERSION.tar.gz
cd gnupod-tools/
./configure
make install

The configure script checks if the desired Perl modules are installed. Please note: it is possible to install GNUpod without XML::Simple installed (use --disable-contrib) , but in this case the commands gnupod_search.pl, gnupod_list.pl and gnupod_renumber.pl won't be installed.

On Debian GNU/Linux you'll simply have to run this commands to install the required Perl modules:
 
apt-get install libfile-ncopy-perl
apt-get install libmp3-info-perl
apt-get install libunicode-string-perl
apt-get install libxml-parser-perl
apt-get install libxml-simple-perl

If you are using a RPM-based Distribution (Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE..) try http://www.rpmfind.net.

Another way is to install the modules 'by hand'.

http://search.cpan.org

will help you to find the needed tarballs. If you don't know how to install them, please read

http://cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_install_Perl_modules


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3.2 Using FireWire with GNU/Linux

Of course the Linux kernel must support FireWire. If the one you are using doesn't have FireWire support you'll have to recompile your Kernel. (It's also a good idea to update the Kernel when you are doing this...)

If you don't know how to compile the Linux kernel, please read http://www.kernelnewbies.org/faq/index.php3#compile

To get FireWire working, you should configure the Kernel like this:

Feel free to build OHCI-1394 into the kernel ('y'), but make sure to compile SBP-2 support as module. It won't work (good) if you say 'y' there! If you don't own an OHCI-1394 FireWire card you may need to use the LYNX driver instead. But OHCI-1394 is the most common used, please also have a look at http://www.linux1394.org

After you rebootet with the new Kernel, you should now be able to mount the iPod. First load the OHCI-1394 module if you did say 'm' to OHCI-1394 support.
 
modprobe ohci1394

Now plugin the iPod and wait until you can see the 'hook-symbol' and load the sbp2 module using
 
modprobe sbp2

Please keep in mind that FireWire support is still experimental and you may see Kernel Oopses and other nasty things. If your system hangs after loading sbp2 or mounting the iPod you may try to load sbp2 like this:
 
modprobe sbp2 sbp2_max_speed=0 sbp2_serialize_io=1 sbp2_force_inquiry_hack=1

This will slow down the transfer rate but should act much more stable.

After loading sbp2, use dmesg to get some information, the output should look like this

 
SBP-2 module load options:
- Max speed supported: S400
- Max sectors per I/O supported: 255
- Max outstanding commands supported: 8
- Max outstanding commands per lun supported: 1
- Serialized I/O (debug): no
- Exclusive login: yes
  Vendor: Apple     Model: iPod              Rev: 1.21
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sdb: 9780750 512-byte hdwr sectors (5008 MB)
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
 sda: sda1 sda2

In this case, /dev/sda would be your iPod.

You can now mount the iPod:
 
mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod -o sync

It's a good idea to add a line like this to the fstab
 
/dev/sda2   /mnt/ipod   vfat   defaults,user,noauto,sync,umask=000

Note: As you can see, we assume an FAT32/VFAT formatted iPod (-t vfat), if you own a HFS+ formatted iPod (aka. Mac-iPod) please have a look at the next section 'Convert your Mac iPod' before using mount.


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3.3 Convert your Mac iPod

If the Operating System you are running doesn't have write support for HFS+ and your iPod is HFS+ Formatted (aka 'Mac-iPod') you will have to reformat the iPod.

Note: The only Operating System with write support for HFS+ wich i know is Darwin/OSX. If you are using GNU/Linux and own a Mac-iPod you'll have to convert your iPod. If you own a Win-iPod, you can skip this section.

The first step is to upgrade your iPod to Firmware 1.1.0 or newer. (YES: 1.1.0 can read FAT32, but Apple never shipped FAT32 formatted iPods with 1.1.0. Firmware 1.1.0 seems to use less power (has 1.20 a rtc problem?), but the name of the iPod won't show up in the 'Info' menu... ;-) )

You can do this with Mac OSX using the Apple Firmware upgrader, it's aviable from: http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/

If you don't own Mac OSX you can update the Mac-iPod using Linux. Have a look at the next section to learn how to do this.

Also note that you will need a fdisk for DOS-Style partitions. The kernel you are running has also to support DOS-Style partitions. If you are using GNU/Linux on x86, your fdisk should be fine, but if you are running GNU/Linux on (for example) PowerPC you may have to get a suitable fdisk from the util-linux package wich can be retrieved from: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/

Compile and install the pc-fdisk (and only the pc-fdisk!)
 
tar -xjvf util-linux-X.XXx.tar.bz2
cd util-linux-X.XXx
./configure
cd fdisk
make
cp fdisk /usr/sbin/pc-fdisk

We assume your iPod at /dev/sda. (No, don't mount the iPod, simply plugin the iPod and make sure it got detected with dmesg.

Here we go:

First, we 'backup' the current Firmware
 
dd if=/dev/sda2 of=backup_firmware

This should result in a ~32Mb big file,now we have to kill the old partition map and force the kernel to re-read the new (empty) map
 
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=10
rmmod sbp2 && insmod sbp2

Now we can use 'pc-fdisk' to create a new partition layout:
 
pc-fdisk /dev/sda [start fdisk]


Command (m for help): n [make new partition]
Command action
   e extended
   p primary partition (1-4)
p we want primary
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-608, default 1): [just press enter]
Using default value 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-608, default 608): 5S [Look out: 5S .. S as in Ship]

Command (m for help): n
Command action
   e extended
   p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 2
First cylinder (6-608, default 6): 6 [is okay, or even needed.. just press enter]
Using default value 6
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (6-608, default 608): [press ENTER]
Using default value 608 [If you don't own a 5gb iPod, this value will be different, don't care about it]

Command (m for help): t [Modify type]
Partition number (1-4): 1
Hex code (type L to list codes): 0 [we don't care about the warning below]
Type 0 means free space to many systems
(but not to Linux). Having partitions of
type 0 is probably unwise. You can delete
a partition using the `d' command.
Changed system type of partition 1 to 0 (Empty)

Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-4): 2 [this is where data will go]
Hex code (type L to list codes): b [b=FAT32]
Changed system type of partition 2 to b (Win95 FAT32)


Command (m for help): w [Writing new partition. Can take a while.]
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.

Puh.. this was hard :) Now we can rewrite the Firmwarebackup we created above.
 
dd if=backup_firmware of=/dev/sda1

You may ask why we now write the Firmware to sda1 while we read it from sda2, the answear is simple: Before running fdisk, the iPod was a Mac-iPod with a different Partition layout, but now the iPod is a Win-iPod, belive me: sda1 is correct.

After writing back the Firmware we can format the iPod:
 
mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n "LUNIX" /dev/sda2

"LUNIX" is the name of the iPod, you can use another name if you like. After mkfs.vfat is done, we remove sbp2:
 
rmmod sbp2

Unplug the iPod and pray. If everything went well, the iPod boots up :). If not, reread this section, if you are lost, feel free to drop me a mail: bug-gnupod@gnu.org


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3.4 Firmware update

** Don't update the Firmware just for fun, only do it if you need a new Firmware or/and the documentation told you to do this **

Setup Firewire as described in 'Using FireWire with GNU/Linux', load the modules and make sure sbp2 detected your iPod. Do not try to mount the iPod. We assume your iPod at /dev/sda.

First you need to get a new Firmware wich you can download from http://www.iweenie.com/ipod.shtml

If you got a FAT32 formatted iPod (..or you plan to 'convert' the iPod after upgrading the Firmware), you'll need Version 1.1.0 or newer.

Let's say, you downloaded the File 121.zip (Firmware version 1.2.1), you'll have now to unzip this file. Unzip should be preinstalled on most Systems (if not, you can get it from http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/UnZip.html).

 
unzip 121.zip 
Archive:  121.zip
  inflating: 121.bin  

Ok, we are now ready to write the new firmware to the iPod.

If your iPod is HFS+ Formatted (your kernel supports 'mac-style' partitions??), use
 
dd if=121.bin of=/dev/sda2

to upgrade the Firmware. If you own a FAT32 Formatted (your kernel supports 'dos-style' partitions??) iPod, use
 
dd if=121.bin of=/dev/sda1

After dd finished (it can take some time), remove sbp2
 
rmmod sbp2

You can now unplug the iPod and pray ;)

It could be possible to damage the iPod with this action, but the iPod is very clever looking for new Firmware. Even if you uploaded 121.zip to the iPod it shouldn't reflash itself with the bad Firmware... (because the zip file wouldn't have a correct checksum)

But please don't blame me if your iPod dies...


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4. Using GNUpod

4.1 Preparation  How to mount and prepare the iPod for GNUpod
4.2 Add files  How to add MP3 files to the iPod
4.3 Search files  How to search for files on the iPod
4.4 Remove files  How to delete files on the iPod
4.5 Creating playlists  How to create a playlist
4.6 Unplug the iPod  How to unplug the iPod (Not a joke.. read it)
4.7 Recovering files  How to rebuild the Database if you lost the iTunesDB & GNUtunesDB
4.8 Coexistence  iTunes/Music Match/xtunes/Ehpod user? Read this!


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4.1 Preparation

Mount the iPod (i assume you mount it at /mnt/ipod) as described in 'Using FireWire with GNUpod'

If the iPod is freshly formatted (= empty - no songs), run
 
gnupod_INIT -m /mnt/ipod

If the iPod isn't empty and you never used gnuPod before, run
 
mkdir /mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/.gnupod
touch /mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/.gnupod/GNUtunesDB
touch /mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB
tunes2pod.pl -m /mnt/ipod

Your iPod is now ready for GNUpod!


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4.2 Add files

To add files, we use the script called gnupod_addsong.pl.

First, mount the iPod (eg. at /mnt/ipod) if it isn't mounted.

If you would like to add the file /tmp/foo.mp3, run gnupod_addsong.pl like this:
 
gnupod_addsong.pl -m /mnt/ipod /tmp/foo.mp3

You can also use wildcards:
 
gnupod_addsong.pl -m /mnt/ipod /mnt/mp3/seiken_densetsu2_ost/* /mnt/mp3/xenogears/ost?/*

It isn't possible to add the same MP3 multiple times, gnupod_addsong.pl detects duplicates (Duplicate = same filesize/time and ID3Tag name).

DO NOT umount the iPod yet! First read the section 'Unplug the iPod'!


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4.3 Search files

GNUpod includes a tool called gnupod_search.pl wich helps you searching for files.

Maybe you would like to search for the artist called 'Schlummiguch'. In this case, run
 
gnupod_search.pl -m /mnt/ipod -a "Schlummiguch"

Please have a look at gnupod_search.pl --help for more information.


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4.4 Remove files

Every file on the iPod has an unique ID, to delete a file, you'll have to know the ID.

To get the desired ID, open the file iPod_Control/.gnupod/GNUtunesDB stored on your iPod.

To delete the file with id="1", simply use
 
gnupod_delete.pl -m /mnt/ipod 1

But there is also a much more confortable way to do this. You can use gnupod_search.pl to tell gnupod_delete.pl wich songs it should remove.

Remember how we searched for the artist 'Schlummiguch' in the previous section?

This command would delete every song of the artist Schlummiguch:
 
gnupod_delete -m /mnt/ipod `gnupod_search -m /mnt/ipod -a "Schlummiguch" -n`

Note: we added the '-n' switch to the search command and we use backticks!


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4.5 Creating playlists

Open the file iPod_Control/.gnupod/GNUtunesDB in a editor (It's a XML File).

To create a playlist named 'sweet' wich holds the songs with the ID 1 and 2, create something like this:
 
<playlist name="sweet">
 <add id="1" />
 <add id="2" />
</playlist>

You are not limited to use 'id', you can also use other attributes:
 
<playist name="bogus">
 <add album="seiken densetsu" bitrate="256" />
</playlist>
This would add every song from the album 'Seiken Densetsu' (<add.. is case INsensitive) with a bitrate of 256kbit/s.

Since GNUpod 0.26 it's also possible to use Regular Expressions (Regex). See perldoc perlre to learn more about this

 
<playlist name="Regex Demo">
 <regex album="^A" />
 <iregex album="^b" />
</playlist>

<regex is case sensitive, use <iregex to do case insensitive matching.

For more examples have a look at doc/gnutunesdb.example included in the GNUpod tarball.

Don't forget to run mktunes before umounting! (See 'Unplug the iPod')


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4.6 Unplug the iPod

Before umounting the iPod, you have to call mktunes.pl wich will parse the GNUtunesDB XML file and convert it into the iTunesDB format.

Simply run
 
mktunes.pl -s -m /mnt/ipod

After mktunes.pl is done, you can umount the iPod and remove the sbp2 module
 
umount /mnt/ipod
rmmod sbp2

Added songs won't be visible on the iPod if you did not run mktunes.pl before umounting the iPod. (If you forgot to run mktunes.pl before unpluging/umounting, simply mount the iPod again and run it)


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4.7 Recovering files

If you lost your iTunesDB and your GNUtunesDB, your iPod won't know anymore wich songs are on it, this very good ;)

You can 'rebuild' an GNUtunesDB using gnupod_addsong.pl

 
gnupod_INIT.pl -m /mnt/ipod
gnupod_addsong.pl --rebuild -m /mnt/ipod

First, gnupod_INIT.pl will create a clean, empty GNUtunesDB, it won't delete any songs on the iPod. gnupod_addsong.pl --rebuild will re-create a GNUtunesDB including the Songs wich are on the iPod

I think nobody will ever have to do this.. but it maybe usefull to know that it's possible (Note: Of course you'll lose your Playlists)


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4.8 Coexistence

GNUpod can coexist with iTunes and other programs for the iPod.

If you want to use an iPod with GNUpod and used something other than GNUpod (maybe iTunes) to perform the last update (adding songs, editing playists.. doing something..), you'll have to use tunes2pod.pl to update the (outdatet) GNUtunesDB.

Mount the iPod and run
 
tunes2pod.pl -m /mnt/ipod

The iPod is now ready again for GNUpod.

You have to do this because GNUpod stores it's information in the GNUtunesDB, other programs are accessing the iTunesDB directly. After you did something with eg. iTunes, the GNUtunesDB would be 'outdatet' and you would lose any changes you made with iTunes. Running tunes2pod.pl will write a new GNUtunesDB wich reflects the content of the current iTunesDB.

You don't have to worry about this too much... GNUpod tells you when you need to run tunes2pod.pl and will refuse to touch anything until you executed it.

You sould avoid the use of 'extended playlist support' if you use your iPod with other programs.

The Playlist part of this file...
 
<files>
<file id="1" title="hello" album="foo"..
<file id="2" title="boing" album="foo"..
</files>
<playlist name="extended">
 <add album="foo" />
</playlist>

..would look like this after using tunes2pod.pl
 
...
<playist name="extended">
 <add id="1" />
 <add id="2" />
</playlist>

The songs are still in the playlists, but the expressions you wrote are 'lost'.


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5. Problems

5.1 RedHat8  How to get GNUpod working on RedHat 8
5.2 Get rid of '-m'  You don't like the -m switch?
5.3 Known bugs and limitations  GNUpod isn't perfect :)
5.4 Reporting Bugs  How to report a Bug


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5.1 RedHat8

If you are using RedHat8, GNUpod may seem to work, but the iPod won't show any songs/playlists.

The Perl binary included with RedHat8 doesn't work as it should if you enabled UTF8 as locale (default?).

Before running any GNUpod command (in particular mktunes.pl and tunes2pod.pl) execute
 
unset LANG

Other solutions:

This is NOT a GNUpod bug. I will not answear any RedHat8 specific bugreports. RedHat8 was your choice. This broken distribution is not my problem.. it's yours.. sorry


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5.2 Get rid of '-m'

You don't have to use the '-m' switch if you set IPOD_MOUNTPOINT. (Example for the BASH)
 
export IPOD_MOUNTPOINT="/mnt/ipod"


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5.3 Known bugs and limitations


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5.4 Reporting Bugs

To report a bug, send a mail to bug-gnupod@gnu.org

Include as much information as possible.

You may want to attach the files iPod_Control/.gnupod/GNUtunesDB and iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB. But please use gzip or bzip2 to compress the files.

Please do not send me any mp3 files without asking me.


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Darwin2. Requirements

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installation3.1 Installation of GNUpod

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requirements2. Requirements

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Solaris2. Requirements

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Table of Contents

1. GNUpod
2. Requirements
3. Installing GNUpod
3.1 Installation of GNUpod
3.2 Using FireWire with GNU/Linux
3.3 Convert your Mac iPod
3.4 Firmware update
4. Using GNUpod
4.1 Preparation
4.2 Add files
4.3 Search files
4.4 Remove files
4.5 Creating playlists
4.6 Unplug the iPod
4.7 Recovering files
4.8 Coexistence
5. Problems
5.1 RedHat8
5.2 Get rid of '-m'
5.3 Known bugs and limitations
5.4 Reporting Bugs
A. GNU Free Documentation License
A.0.1 ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

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1. GNUpod
2. Requirements
3. Installing GNUpod
4. Using GNUpod
5. Problems
A. GNU Free Documentation License

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