Samad's Blog » Linux http://blog.samad64.com Yes.. I blog. Get over it. Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:49:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Fixing Artwork On Your iPod Touch (Linux + Amarok) http://blog.samad64.com/2008/06/26/fixing-artwork-on-your-ipod-touch-linux-amarok/ http://blog.samad64.com/2008/06/26/fixing-artwork-on-your-ipod-touch-linux-amarok/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:39:53 +0000 Samad http://blog.samad64.com/?p=49 Recently I decided to install Ubuntu linux on my laptop since Windows was giving me a lot of problems and it was getting to be about the time where I reformat all my computers to start out fresh. Instead of reinstalling Windows, I installed Linux.. but then realized that there is no iTunes for linux. WTF!! Searching around on Google, I found an alternate method to sync music to the iTouch wirelessly, however this “erased” all my artwork for my music. When I say “erased”, I mean it just took it out of the iTunes DB located on the iPod touch. I embed all of my artwork into the MP3/AAC files, so nothing is really ever lost unless I delete the song :) . Thanks to commenter #34 (Zubin) on http://blog.adaniels.nl/articles/iphone-amarok/, I was able to retreive my artwork and restore it into the iTunes DB located on my iPod. Thanks for the tip!! Here is the comment, quoted below:

actually, artwork DOES work in amarok 1.4.8 (and 1.4.6) if you are using the latest libgpod3. Make sure you have selected the iphone from the Ipod drop-down list in the Devices tab, and then use the ‘update artwork’ option. I have confirmed that this works myself.

UPDATE: It looks like only the first song in an album has the cover art – the rest don’t. I ended up ditching Linux for iPod management and only use my Windows PC at home with iTunes. Hopefully one day they release an iTunes for Linux :(

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