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From: Neef
Subject: [Bug-gnupod] Bug / Issue for gnupod
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:51:23 -0000

Hi,

Just foung gnupod, and I have to say its made my life *SO* much easier.

This isnt exactly a bug, rather a problem that I encountered when copying mp3's to my ipod and I thought you might want to update your documentation to mention this. (Ive looked through it and I cant find anything that mentions it already, so my apologies if you've already encountered this and made mention)

Version : gnupod_addsong.pl Version 0.98.3 (C) Adrian Ulrich
OS: Linux iron 2.6.15-1-486 #2 Mon Mar 6 15:19:16 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

Problem : Very slow mp3 transfer speeds to ipod.

Rather than use firewire, Im using a USB port to connect my ipod.
At first I was getting incredibly lousy connection speeds (sometimes up to 30 or 40 minutes to transfer an album to the ipod)
I assuming that this was the USB connection/port so I purchased a USB2 card for the box.
I still had slow transfer speeds even using the new card.

Long story short ;

Your Documentation on mounting the ipod through the /etc/fstab file uses the sync switch.
/dev/sda2   /mnt/ipod   vfat   defaults,user,noauto,sync,umask=000


Removing ;sync' from the line in fstab makes the transfer *much* quicker.
HOWEVER
After tranferring files and running mktunes you also need to run 'sync' to synchronise/update the file systems.
So this process now goes thusly ;

/dev/sda2 /ipod vfat defaults,user,noauto,umask=000
Process ;

mount /ipod
gnupod_addsong -m /ipod /music/blah/*.mp3
mktunes -m /ipod
sync
umount /ipod


Ive been using this method for a few weeks now and not had a problem with it at all.

Hope this is some help/worth to you


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