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Access to the sixth generation of iPod nano on Linux

I tried to access the 6th generation of iPod nano on linux. I tried the gtkpod that comes with Debian Squeeze and it looks like it does not support 6th generation nano. So I tried iTunes under the wine, and it was barely installed and was not very functional. Then I tried foobar2000 under the wine that I installed, but didn't seem to find my ipod.

Now I tried to compile gtkpod 2.0.2, but I am having problems with libtool trying to compile libgpod, and I don’t even know if gtkpod 2.0.2 supports the 6th generation of nano, although I saw several references to the 6th generation of nano in the gtkpod change list.

Does anyone know a better approach here?

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Well ... I just compiled gtkpod 2.0.2 and libgpod 0.8.2 and didn't get it working. The ALTHOUGH in readme seems to indicate that you MAY make it work if you have a file that was already on it and did some kind of reverse hacker to get hash72. It seems like a bit of work, and I haven't done it yet. I will try, but first you need to download the music.

What is strange is that gtkpod was copying files, I just did not see it on nano. I am sure that I need to get the hash correctly, then I will be fine.

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Warning: The following solution should be used ONLY for iPod nano 6th generation.

The gtkpod homepage says the following :

6th generation iPod nano CANNOT be recorded unless a binary binary is used

The binary file (originally written for Ubuntu 12.04) can be downloaded and extracted from here or here, and it should work on Ubuntu (I tested it on Ubuntu 18.04) and Slackware.

You can find out if your system is 64-bit or 32-bit using the uname -i command. It will return i386 for 32-bit and x86_64 for 64-bit.

  • Unzip the archive.

  • Read readme.md.

For 64-bit Ubuntu, run:

 sudo ./install_64bit.sh

For 32-bit Ubuntu, run:

 sudo ./install_32bit.sh

After that, libgpod-based software such as gtkpod, Banshee, Rhythmbox, Amarok, Clementine (and its new fork of Strawberry), gPodder and some others should work with iPod nano 6th gen.

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