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I'd like to be able to plug my 5th gen iPod nano into my Ubuntu 10.04 box and have it sync podcasts. I'd like newly downloaded podcasts to be copied onto the iPod, and played podcasts to be removed from the iPod.

I've tried syncing with:

  • Rhythmbox detects the iPod when it's plugged in, but doesn't sync podcasts to it.

  • Banshee doesn't detect the iPod unless I kill Nautilus. It also doesn't sync podcasts without intervention.

  • gPodder doesn't seem to detect the iPod. It will sync, but only if I tell it to. And it marks podcasts as unheard. The gpo sync commandline app has the same problem.

  • gtkpod doesn't detect the iPod. It will sync with intervention, but it syncs podcasts as songs.

This feels like a problem that someone else would have encountered by now. How do I get my Ubuntu box to sync podcasts with my iPod?

Erigami
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Interesting that you couldn't get it working with gPodder. I had this working with Ubuntu 10.04 but with an iPod 30GB video (a generation before yours?). I did have to fiddle a bit to make it work, but once working it was pretty much automatic.

Have you tried a newer version of gpodder than we have in Ubuntu?

The gpodder authors ppa has 2.7, Ubuntu Lucid has 2.2

https://launchpad.net/~thp/+archive/gpodder

popey
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http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ -- formally know as ipodder, now called juice provides the functionality your looking for.

:)

myusuf3
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You cant really "sync" but you can copy,paste and move things to-and from the iPod. What you can do is set up a cron job to sync hourly. You would need to set up a script to see where the mount point of the iPod is and to copy to the appropriate folder.

megubyte
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