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Does anyone know how to make a iPod Nano gen 3 (Pink) to work with Linux Mint? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by grey@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@sh.itjust.works

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This is actually a problem with all iPods it seems, but I can't get any of them to work on Linux Mint, or any distro. There are literally programs on the repos for working with iPods that show up if you search "iPod" and none of them actually with the four iPods I was recently given. The most popular one google results reccomend is GTKpod, and GTKpod has a helpful seems that seems to let you actually pick and choose which one you are connecting, even by color, because I guess that matters. On every iPod I've tried on GTKpod on Linux Mint and on Manjaro, none work. All either just silently hang with no error message or spit out a slew of different error messages. The one I'm trying to make it work with the most is the iPod Nano Gen 3 Pink because I want to give it away as a gift to someone with a Linux Mint computer. But nothing seems to work with them. Does anyone know what's up with that?

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[–] insomniac@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you ever find an answer? Gtkpod should work. I’ve used it with a 3rd gen regular iPod. I wonder if your iPod isn’t getting mounted automatically? Linux can’t mount it (at least it’s more complicated but I don’t know if there’s a solution) if the ipod is macos formatted. If it’s Windows formatted, it should just mount when you plug it in but you can use the mount command if it’s not mounting automagically. If it is mac formatted, you should be able to fix it on a windows computer.

[–] grey@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. Nothing I've tried has worked. I thought after all these years there would be something that works.

[–] insomniac@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Does it work if you plug it in to a windows computer?