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By using the FirewireGuid line in the iPod’s SysInfo file (see the 160gb ipod article) the just-released 4th gen nano (MB735LL/A – pink 4th gen nano) syncs fine with Linux.

I used Amarok with my existing files..  was able to mount the ipod (Fedora 9 saw and mounted ipod when I plugged in), and Amarok picked it right up.  I transfered an album over to it and umounted it.. and am now listening to it from the ipod

Good times.

Most people when loading up their later iPods (gen 6) will notice that while you have it plugged in it appears that everything is going great – Linux recognized your ipod, your songs are transfering, and you’re thinking of which songs you’re going to put into a new playlist…

But then you umount it and your iPod states it has 0 songs.

You don’t believe it though and you scroll around to see where all your songs went – maybe in videos?  No, they’re on there, but the iPod won’t tell you about them until you do one magical thing…  tell Linux what your firewire guid is…

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