After testing a few "media management" players, I decided to use Amarok.

I was wondering if anyone knows how to make amarok "upgrade" my Ipod songs if I have changed something on them, like the ID3 tags.

I'm using a script to insert the lyrics in my ID3 tags, but when I try to transfer them to my media device it says "media already present".

Has anyone managed to find a solution for this?

Anyone found a solution?

Or, in another way...does anyone use Amarok to update his/her ipod?

Maybe if you deleted the files first, it wouldn't say "media already present", and the transfer would take place. It might be a good idea to try this with one file first, before you delete your entire collection, and then find it doesn't work!

Well, that would be the, how can I say, über-linux-geek-and-non-practical-solution to the problem, as it would imply that the user would have to either

a)manually delete all the media in the ipod on every update
b)manually check which media he wants to update and manually delete it from the ipod

What would be interesting would be to automate the process: amarok (or a script) would do the work for the user. Just like the almighty itunes does.

I have a different type of player that uses the MTP protocol. The iPod interfaces like a hard drive doesn't it? Maybe you could start a script in the "preconnect command" configuration that compares the timestamps of the files on the iPod with the timestamps of the same files on your computer. This would take some time however, although using the find command to only return files changed that day in the directory on your computer could speed things up. The script could produce a list of files modified today, and check if the matching files on the iPod are older, and if so, delete them.

The main reason I wanted this was to automatically insert lyrics in my songs on Amarok so that they would display on my ipod (in the "now playing" section).

Unfortunately, I haven't yet found a way to make the lyrics show in the ipod. I tried the ID3Lyrics script, but it doesn't seem to work.

Has anyone successfully accomplished this in Linux?

did you find any solution?

No. I eventually gave up on the subject.

Unfortunately, there isn't a great solution for the ipod as the iTunes.

I can write lyrics on the amarok database, and fetch them automatically, but I can't move them to my ipod.


As a suggestion, you could try Songbird. It's still on a young release, but perhaps that is the way. When I tried it a few months ago I felt it was too heavy for my computer,but nevertheless I recommend giving it a try.

Well, actually i'm doing this.
-first i'm using amarok to sync my ipod video.
-on amarok i installed the script "save lyrics to id3"
-then i must close amarok to use gtkpod
-in gtkpod, on every file i must select "update from file", to activate the information saved on id3s, doing this the ipod database shows the lyric.


now there's other problem, because the album's cover disappear from the selected songs.