GPixPod

iPod Nano and Video users who got problems, crashes, failure when trying to open the Photo Database: please upgrade to the new 0.4.4 version and report if now is finally working for you. This fix updates the parser code so that it now should handle properly Photo Database files generated on Macs, probably by iPhoto and containing some extra irregular fields.
This release includes also a new iPod info dialog, showing the detected model and storage statistics, from the help menu.
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I am currently working on Photo Database format differences found on recent Apple iPod Nanoes and maybe Video, too.
I don’t know whether these discrepancies - which until now caused GPixPod crashes - are generated only by iPhoto when used to do anything with the iPod, or by some versions of iTunes, too.
Well, I don’t know, but I’ll try to manage this transparently. It’s not something the user should worry about, whether to use iPhoto or not.
For instance, this kind of Photo Databases stores a second string entry in every photo album, after its name, containing a transition effect name (as already documented on the iPodLinux wiki) but also additional string records for every image, containing a label or the name maybe as shown inside iPhoto (I don’t know yet whether instead of the path, or indipendently).
I’m going to update the specifications on the iPodLinux.org wiki and the parser code to handle all this hopefully to finally support the interested users.
Stay tuned!

I have just released 0.4.3 version of GPixPod that should fix the fullscreen image behaviour for iPod Photo/Color models! Please test it and report how it is working now, both on the iPod itself and in the application, in the right pane thumbnails view!
This release introduces more refined graphics with a simpler icon and a better logo, too. It fixes also the handling of iPodLinux installations, avoiding querying them for photos and Photo Database.
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