When I first started playing with my iPod, i was sorely disappointed that there was no good tool to upload my photos to the iPod. Sure, there is GPixPod, but surely this is one of the worst peices of software ever. Never worked for me at all.
Yesterday I decided to have another look around, and discovered that libgpod have implemented some access to the iPod photo database. I thought this was exciting, so I started to play around with it.
I played around with it so much, that I developed a KIPI plugin to upload images to my iPod. Works quite nicely, but currently there is no UI to manage images based on the iPod. User interface designs and ideas are most welcome and I would love to hear from you.
Here is a screenshot of the iPod export plugin in action:
I hope that this tool is useful for some of you out there! Beware that it is currently not possible to remove images/albums from the ipod (or do any other ipod located manipulation).
I also hope to be able to make this into a standalone application soon, it shouldn’t take too much work.
Update
You can find a standalone release here: http://www.sebruiz.net/tripod/
Why a stand alone application? Would perhaps a KIO slave be better, allowing any KDE application to work (more or less transparently)? Or perhaps a plugin of some sort to one of the several picture management applications KDE already has?
Just a suggestion – I don’t have an ipod, nor do I take a lot of pictures, so this isn’t useful to me whatever you decide.
I’m not sure if you read my post, but it is currently a KIPI plugin. That means it works with digikam, showfoto, gwenview and more.
I’d like to make it a stand alone app so that kipi isn’t a dependency!
I swear that my girlfriend’s iPod works just fine on Kubuntu and shows up as a standard USB mass storage device. No plugins or special software required. Although I have a feeling that this is something that had to be turning on in the iPod itself.
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Simon
Sure, but you can’t upload music/videos/photos without writing the entries to the iPod database first. You can’t do that with drag ‘n’ drop.
well not the music, but the full resolution pictures you can ( it dosent create smaller thumbnails like itunes )
but either way, great work, hope to see more soon
Awesome! I hope this makes into the next release of Kipi plugins.
Is there a link for this?
Whilst I haven’t made a proper release yet, you can download the source from svn:
svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/libs/kipi-plugins/ipodexport
I would love a stand-alone app. Look forward to testing it as it develops.
Ahhh, a standalone cmd line app to run any kipi plugin from command line would be great, like:
kipi ipodexport imagefile [...]
because this way kipi-plugins (plus some desktop files) could be also sort of kimg-ng.of kimg-ng. No need for
just another specialized gui app *hide*
I hope this was your plan Seb
Achim
allee — if you are looking for a standalone cmd line app to upload your pictures to the iPod, the test program supplied with libgpod (tests/test-photos) should be for you: upload pictures, create albums, remove pictures/albums. It came out of a collaboration with Seb when we tried to transform the photo backend of libgpod into something that applications can use easily. As this phase has now been finished, I also expect that Seb will continue working on his plugin
Cheers,
JCS.
Indeed! My thesis is due tomorrow, so after that I will have a little bit of time to make a release!
Il would be great if you can add option to syncronise the complete photo database of digikam, like itune do with “my picture”.
OK…I am trying to make a movie on my ipod nano by using microsoft paint and draw each picture. I was supprised that it acctually worked, but the only thing is the photos arn’t in the order I wanted them to be in and yes i turned shuffle photos off. I sorted the photos by date modified and they look good in the folder but there way different than the ipod. CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME IVE TRIED EVERYTHING!
why don’t you make a video, and then upload it to your ipod.
man, this is awesome, just too bad my Ipod is not suported (Ipod classic 160G)
anyhow, maybe later, and it is great!!!!!!!!!
Thanx to you linux rocks even more