{"id":128,"date":"2012-02-20T11:10:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T17:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtu.net\/~jpschewe\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2012-02-20T11:10:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T17:10:14","slug":"finally-able-to-use-my-ipod-touch-without-windows-or-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtu.net\/~jpschewe\/blog\/2012\/02\/finally-able-to-use-my-ipod-touch-without-windows-or-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally able to use my iPod Touch without Windows or Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally made it. I can now use my iPod Touch just with Linux. Apple adding over the air updates really helped, but I still couldn’t sync my music. I also found that pulling large videos off via Dropbox didn’t work as the app would time out. I had been trying to get gtkpod to work, but kept running into a problem with the database checksum on the music database. Recently I found Phone Drive<\/a>\u00a0and this has solved my problem. This app lets me copy images and videos out of my camera roll into the app and then the app will bring up a web server and an ftp server on the device. I can then browse the files from my web browser and download the files to my desktop. I can also put files up this way. Phone Drive also has a built in music player that will play any directory as a playlist and supports users adding their own playlists. So I wrote a little script (below) that will generate a playlist for all music and one for each artist on my computer and then I can upload those and all of my music via ftp. I did have a little trouble with some ftp programs that want to open multiple connections. In the end I used ncftp as it doesn’t try to open multiple connections and it has the ability to upload directories recursively. I did find one oddity that I needed to turn off the auto conversion of ascii files otherwise playlist files got their line endings changed and Phone Drive wouldn’t recognize them.<\/p>\n

So my current list of apps that I\u00a0regularly\u00a0use is this:<\/p>\n