Re: Charging iPod / Listening to music

On 10/31/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:43:08PM -0400, steve wrote:
> > Richard Lyons wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:01:53PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> > >
> > >> When I plug my iPod using the USB cable I get the 'Do not
> > >> disconnect' screen on the ipod. It's great because I can see the ipod
> > >> is charging. But to listen to music I do not understand what I need to
> > >> do. I tried:
> >
> > its not possible to listen and charge an ipod on any platform with the
> > "ipod firmware". I went through this many years ago. Maybe look at
> > rockbox?
> >

>

Because the charger is not sending data (this is as far as I understood). Apparently you can even have a pure power USB (no data) from your pc somehow...

I'll try the solution of amarok + kdeeject tonight.

thanks everybody.

-- 
Mathieu


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