Initializing iPod

MadEgg · l33t Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands

After I accidently unplugged my iPod while it was still mounted, the complete filesystem was b0rked. So I reformatted and now I'm stuck with an empty iPod. But none of the Linux programs I've tried for iPod's recognize it as an ipod now, not the ipod KIO-slave, not 'yam', not amaroK.

Is there any way to initialize the iPod so I can add songs to it again without using iTunes on Windows?
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Telemin · l33t Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 753 Location: Glasgow, UK

Not that i know of... You need to find yourself a pc or mac with itunes i'm afraid. The thing is I don't think you can just reformat them you need to put some library files on there or something first i think to make amarok recognise the drive as an ipod.

revolthor · n00b Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 27

maybe it's too late, but at least for the future, you can always try ipod linux - http://ipodlinux.org/Main_Page
the only problem i've found with it is that the playback is pretty poor:(

tutaepaki · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:30 pm Post subject:

gtkpod has an option to create the required files and directories. If it's not too late, you might try that.