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Old 10-06-2009, 06:27 PM   #1
littlelia
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upon ejection of IPOD, device shows no songs


I have tried using both amarok and rythmbox to put songs onto my ipod. the transfer of songs is successful, however, when i eject my ipod and go to use it, it says i have no songs. Please help!
 
Old 10-06-2009, 10:10 PM   #2
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After the song transfers, are you ejecting through Amarok? Amarok (or any other application) needs to write a new database and perform some other operations on the device before it can be ejected, so you need to make sure it is ejected through the syncing software and not manually.
 
Old 10-06-2009, 10:23 PM   #3
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I use " GtkPod " to install songs on it
http://www.gtkpod.org/about.html
 
Old 10-07-2009, 06:48 PM   #4
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thanks for replying. I ended up using banshee, and my ipod works fine
 
  


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