GPixPod 0.5.1 released
With this release it is now possible to manually force own iPod model from command line and configuring it in preferences for GUI. Full resolution images options have been simplified, moved straight to the filechooser, where new options have been added, to scan directories recursively and to check for duplicates.
Many other bugs and exception have been fixed, for example to handle storing large amount of photos.
To users having problems with GUI (incomplete, with some missing parts): the problems were related to wrong Glade dependencies!!! Minimum python-glade2 version should be 2.8+ and now packages are updated to depend on this.
Thanks go for good testing by Marcos Rodriguez who integrates always the latest GPixPod release into his new Gentoo-based distro Aris OS! 
August 18th, 2006 at 19:59
Great program. Keep up the good work. I found it on sourceforge but you might want to put a link on the homepage somewhere.
August 18th, 2006 at 20:15
I get the following errors and can’t find an updated python-support except for in edgy. Any ideas?
sudo dpkg -i gpixpod_0.5.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb
Selecting previously deselected package gpixpod.
(Reading database … 139598 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gpixpod (from gpixpod_0.5.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gpixpod:
gpixpod depends on python-support (>= 0.2); however:
Version of python-support on system is 0.1.1ubuntu1.
dpkg: error processing gpixpod (–install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
gpixpod
August 19th, 2006 at 23:48
Hi, i use your application in my Kubuntu, but i need something similar for Windows (i hate iTunes, i use mediamonkey in Windows).
It’s possible to compile your application to run in WinXP?
Thanks
August 20th, 2006 at 08:45
Hi phlegm,
I have update my .deb package for edgy trying to get into it in universe.
For the moment, you could install some dependencies (python-support) getting them from edgy.
I will release a generic .deb shortly, suitable for Debian and Dapper, too
August 20th, 2006 at 08:47
Hi Pascal,
for the moment there is a ready-to-install .exe file for version 0.4.0 available both on SF and Download.com.
I didn’t get the time yet to update to the last version. Probably I will with the next 0.5.2 release
August 20th, 2006 at 15:37
Thanks, i’ve found it.
August 22nd, 2006 at 22:49
Hey!
Thanks for the good work. The .deb you have won’t install in Debian Sid. The python policy has changed, so now it should depend on python-gtk2 and python-glade2 instead of python2.4-gtk2, etc
I changed and installed gpixpod, but I couldn’t add any pictures:
gpixpod
Using default preferences
Thumbnails cache checksum failed. Extracting from *.ithumb files.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/gpixpod/gpixpod.py”, line 756, in AddPhotoChooser
self.AddPhoto(None, None, True)
File “/usr/lib/gpixpod/gpixpod.py”, line 875, in AddPhoto
syncf = open(syncfile)
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/home/cmoffat/.gpixpod/sync’
any ideas?
August 23rd, 2006 at 11:52
OK Carlos it’s a bug. For the moment try adding a picture with the command line tool, this will create the /home/cmoffat/.gpixpod/sync file and then you could use the GUI normally.
I release 0.5.2 ASAP fixing it
Thanks for reporting the .deb package problems too. I will release 2 debs starting from 0.5.2, one for Ubuntu edgy and one for Debian Sid.
August 23rd, 2006 at 16:33
Hi, Flavio, and thanks for this release. It has fixed my “iPod None” problem by letting me manually choose the model. I prefer the CLI tool, but there are a few other problems with the GUI:
- The dialog for creating new albums or new symlinks (are those symlinks or what) doesn’t respond to “OK” nor “Cancel”. The console doesn’t show anything when pressing the buttons, either.
- Suppose I have 5 pics in an album and delete picture #1. Then, clicking picture #4 (previously #5) shows the icon for the *old* 4th picture.
- Are you thinking on implementing album renaming capabilities?
Again, thank you for this wonderful tool.
August 23rd, 2006 at 18:56
Hi redondos,
yup you are right actually there is a bug with the dialog for creating albums and symlinks when you launch gpixpod from the extracted directory without first installing it. A workaround is to make sure that the gpixpod icon is stored at the location /usr/share/gpixpod/GPixPod_icon.png. Of course this will be fixed with the upcoming 0.5.2 release.
Renaming albums is possible by double-clicking them!!! This could be considered an usability bug, and I should fix it as well.
October 20th, 2006 at 23:33
Is there any documentation on how to use this at all? Maybe I’m just really stupid but hwen I run it, i have no idea how to get pictures over to the ipod.
In the firstplace, gpixpod at the bottom says “please connect the ipod” even though it is connected.
if i click on the Open buttun underneath the file/edit/etc menu line, it just gives me a file browser, it seems to want some kind of ipod database. i click on ipod and go thru all its folder but gpixpod doesn’t find anything it likes
So i am stumped, and i could not find even themost basic tutorial. i need something that says: This is what you do the very first itme you run gpix pod”
if it helps I have a 80G video ipod, with music and movies installed on it. it has never been connected to anything but linux, and i have not used anything other than gtkpod to set t hings up on it.
Any hints or pointers, etc would be gratefully accepted. ifeel stupid beyond words that i cannot even play around with this and figure it out. i must be missing somethign obvious…
October 20th, 2006 at 23:48
OK, so file->new, now it asks me to create the ipod folder mountpoint? what is that? where should it be? right now it’s in /usr/lib/gpixpod, with a “po” directory listed
should i use that? something else? ???
October 20th, 2006 at 23:50
then it says i have an ipod none, will never be supported?? but this is not true, i know pictures can be put on this.
agh!