How to sync songs in Rhythmbox with an iPod

Question

I can sync them with Banshee but in Rhythmbox (Am starting again to use it since it will be the default in 12.04) I can see that Rhythmbox can detect the ipod and see the songs but when I try to drag one to the ipod how can I tell it to sync it so I can remove the iPod and listen to it.

Solution

If you are using iOS 5.x, the library that Rhythmbox (and others) use to do this does not yet support the newer database version. If your iOS device has recently been updated, then you simply need to wait for libimobiledevice to be updated (watch the website under Music/Video Synchronization Status for updates).

[edit: 3/11/13 e.m.fields - It seems that the libimobiledevices is supporting up to iOS 6.12 as of this release. ]

from www.libimobiledevice.org:

Latest Release: 1.0.7 Development/Unstable Release: 1.1.4

Tested with iPod Touch 1G/2G/3G/4G, iPhone 1G/2G/3G/3GS/4/4S/5, iPad 1/2/3rd Gen and Apple TV running up to firmware 6.1.2 on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

Comments

[Luis Alvarado]

Yes I already dragged the song to the ipod and yes that works. I can see the song there but I can not sync it to the ipod and if I remove the ipod the song is not there. It only "shows" that is there, is not actually synced to the device. That is the problem.

[Luis Alvarado]

Thanks rwrw. For the moment I found this tool gtkpod which basically works. It detects the shuffle 4th gen I have and I can just drag, drop, sync and then listen to them with no problem.

[emf]

It seems that the libimobiledevices is supporting up to iOS 6.12 as of this moment. However I have't been able to get it working with my rhythmbox installation, so YMMV.

[user87317]

I installed libimobiledevice 1.1.5 on ubuntu 12.10. I still could not sync my iphone 4s with 6.1.3 with rhythmbox.