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iPhone + Amarok

08 Oct 2007 Arnold Daniels  

48 Responses to “iPhone + Amarok”

1. on 09 Oct 2007 at 20:22 1 nagybal

   Suse 10.2 64x

   The following step gets me an error massage:
   # adduser my-username fuse
   -bash: adduser: command not found

   if I try:
   # useradd my-username fuse
   useradd: Too many arguments.

2. on 10 Oct 2007 at 11:45 2 Arnold Daniels

   useradd is not the same as add user. The command adds the user to a specific group.

   If that script is not in the Suse distro, you need to add the user through ‘Users and Groups’ administration screen or just edit /etc/group and add the user to group ‘fuse’ manually.

3. on 10 Oct 2007 at 13:17 3 nagybal

   I see. I can do that, but not manually…

   There is only one problem I don’t have a group called fuse. I can make one… but why is this step important?

   Its might important, because if I just skip this step, amarok crashes if I try to connect.

4. on 10 Oct 2007 at 15:16 4 Arnold Daniels

   I don’t know anything about Suse, so I can’t help you that specifically. Do you have sshfs and fuse-utils (fusermount) installed?

   As a non-root user, you can only use sshfs and fusermount is you are added to the fuse group. You should not use sudo for sshfs and fusermount.

   If the step ‘Mount your iPhone and prepare it for Amarok’ works, all should be well and Amarok should not crash.

5. on 10 Oct 2007 at 19:37 5 Alfredo

   Just a couple of comments:
   1.-Just a couple of comments:

   -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
   1.-Just after:
   sshfs root@192.168.1.132:/var/root/Media /media/iphone/

   don’t you think there should be a:
   cd /media/iphone

   just before:

   ln -s iTunes_Control /media/iphone/iPod_Control

   To avoid confusions?
   -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
   2.-

   Upload your songs and enjoy
   No go to the ‘Devices’ tab and press ‘Connect’. After uploading songs you need to restart your iPhone.

   You miss a “w” just after the “No” this can confuse some users
   -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

   This i know these are dumb issues, but I think is all this post need to be perfect..

   Keep up the good work.

6. on 10 Oct 2007 at 21:01 6 Arnold Daniels

   Alfredo, it’s not necessary to change the directory, since a full path for the new symlink is provided. Cd-ing to /media/iphone might even give some trouble when unmounting.

   Thanks for the comments.

7. on 11 Oct 2007 at 15:46 7 Ivan Fernandez

   It worked (more or less) in ubuntu feisty. Had to add -o allow_others and -o umask=000 for it to be read/writeable for the user running amarok and it also had a bad side effect on the covers of the albums: destroyed them all….

   Now my cover flow is sad and grey

8. on 13 Oct 2007 at 20:29 8 Charles

   hey thanks for the tutorial. but do you know of any way to force the iphone to not go to sleep, besides having it plugged into power?

9. on 14 Oct 2007 at 00:01 9 Teresa

   Awesome….. you have just made my life sooo much easier. Now that I can use Amarok to sync music, I can finally reload the Windows system I was using ONLY for iTunes. Thanks for the help!

10. on 15 Oct 2007 at 12:36 10 Arnold Daniels

    You can disable auto-lock and with that sleep using in:
    Settings -> General -> Auto-Lock => Never

11. on 23 Oct 2007 at 05:31 11 JamiroWRX

    Hi, i got this problem :S

    jamiro@jamiro-laptop:~$ sshfs jamiro@192.168.0.114:/var/root/Media
    read: Connection reset by peer

    i’ve looked but i can’t find this error, i even tried to connect by:

    jamiro@jamiro-laptop:~$ ssh root@iphone
    ssh: connect to host iphone port 22: Connection refused

    can you please help me. it’s very frustrating start to think about installing windows :S

12. on 23 Oct 2007 at 05:33 12 JamiroWRX

    about the root@iphone i’ve edited the host and added the ip to iphone, just in case you where wondering where did i got that.
    sorry.

13. on 23 Oct 2007 at 10:57 13 Arnold Daniels

    JamiroWRX, first of all make sure you have the IP correct by using ping. Second make sure you have openSSH installed and running on your iPhone.

    Notice that OpenSSH doesn’t come on the iPhone standard. You need to install it. To install 3rth party software you first need to hack your phone. Please read the first part of the article.

14. on 24 Oct 2007 at 22:08 14 JamiroWRX

    thnxs dude, but i’ve other trouble
    when i try to install BSD subsystem the phone show me the follow message
    “Error package download failed!”
    can u help me again please

15. on 30 Oct 2007 at 10:59 15 r00mka

    iPhone hint – you don’t need to reboot you iPhone.
    Just close music player from ssh console and then run it again, here is a command:

    kill `ps -A|grep MobileMusicPlayer|grep -v grep|awk '{print $1}'`

16. on 03 Nov 2007 at 03:52 16 johnny

    Holding the home button for about 5 seconds seems to kill the current application as well.

17. on 03 Nov 2007 at 14:28 17 Nic

    Does album art transfer work using Amarok?

18. on 03 Nov 2007 at 14:53 18 Arnold Daniels

    Hi Nic,
    Short anwser: No.

19. on 04 Nov 2007 at 13:55 19 Thomas

    Hi Arnold,

    thanks a lot, it works fine here except security password policy.
    I have uploaded my dsa pubkey on iphone to avoid this.

    for interrested ppl :

    1- generate your key-pair (it not already done) on your desk :

    tm@Naboo:~$ ssh-keygen -t dsa
    Generating public/private dsa key pair.
    Enter file in which to save the key (/home/tm/.ssh/id_dsa):
    Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): [HERE NO PASS ]
    Enter same passphrase again: [ HERE NO PASS]
    Your identification has been saved in /home/tm/.ssh/id_dsa.
    Your public key has been saved in /home/tm/.ssh/id_dsa.pub.
    The key fingerprint is:
    79:3c:bc:17:ff:41:d3:2d:19:c6:70:e3:15:0d:ae:91 tm@Naboo

    2- upload you pubkey on iphone
    tm@Naboo:~$ scp .ssh/id_dsa.pub root@192.168.0.100:
    root@192.168.0.100’s password:
    id_dsa.pub 100% 598 0.6KB/s 00:00

    3- setup authorization
    tm@Naboo:~$ ssh root@192.168.0.100
    # cd .ssh
    # mv ../id_dsa.pub authorized_keys

    then now it works fine

    regards
    thomas

20. on 12 Nov 2007 at 19:57 20 Vishal

    Hi Arnold,

    I have followed the process exactly and the songs were transferred correctly on my phone. But i cannot see them even after reboot also my ipod application is not working (i cant even navigate to other links like playlists,artists etc inside the ipod application).

    my iphone is 1.1.1

    pls help..!!!!
    im stuck..!!

21. on 12 Nov 2007 at 22:33 21 Arnold Daniels

    Hi Vishal,

    I’m running 1.0.3 myself, so it might not work on later versions. I haven’t tried and am not planning to update my iPhone.

    Try to delete the whole iTunes_Control directory and connect it to iTunes to let it create a new one. That use Amarok to just copy 2 or 3 song to the iPone and see if it will work.

    As johnny suggested, instead of rebooting just hold the button down for 5 seconds when the iPod app is started. This kills the app and next time it will re-read the iTunesDB file.

    If somebody has some info to help Vishal, please leave a comment.

22. on 17 Nov 2007 at 01:33 22 Drew

    I was having problems, ran amarok as root. Works great.

23. on 17 Nov 2007 at 01:41 23 Drew

    Correction, it seems to have not updated the DB after transferring music. Only bought albums stay. Have tried restart. Any ideas?

24. on 22 Nov 2007 at 20:32 24 Slim

    I see that album art does not transfer, which I have definitely verified. However I have not seen anyone say that all of your other songs with album art will get messed up. That happened to me, the album art is completely random now. Can anyone else confirm this?

25. on 26 Nov 2007 at 04:33 25 snyke

    Over at the ubuntu forum they have put down a simple script that uses rsync to sync out the metadata and then only mounts the Musik folder. Apparently this fixes artwork for gtkpod. But when I try to use this script with amarok it says it can’t find a device at /media/iPod which is probably because only /media/iPod/iTunes_control/Music is mounted. Any idea how to fix this?

26. on 26 Nov 2007 at 13:00 26 Arnold Daniels

    I believe Snyke means this thread:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=588246&highlight=rsync+itunes_control

    Snyke have you tried this?
    http://www.nabble.com/iPhone-thumbnails-t4386424.html
    It should prevent the album art from being messed up, but I haven’t tried it myself.

27. on 27 Nov 2007 at 02:26 27 snyke

    Thanks Arnold that is exactly the thread I was talking about, sorry for not posting the link but it’s kinda hard to copy links on an iPod
    Anyway my artwork is not actually messed up, I’d just like to be able to sync the covers using amarok which doesn’t like mounting the rsynced version of the iPod-folder anymore as it isn’t a device mounted directly.

28. on 03 Dec 2007 at 21:23 28 magarto

    Thanks a lot!!!
    I have written this post into spanish: check here

    Thanks again

29. on 07 Dec 2007 at 10:56 29 Arnold Daniels

    This application might be interresting: http://movenplay.gforge.inria.fr/

    Among other things it allows you to sync your calender and contacts with thunderbird (or so it claims). I have yet to try it out.

30. on 09 Dec 2007 at 19:22 30 nagybal

    Hi Faces!

    So i have still have problems with the mounting with Amarok… and the problem is that the sshfs command requires a password by my case! I know this… its ‘dottie’ on the 1.0.3 phones and ‘alpine’ on the 1.1.1 phones. So how can i solve this?

    I have seen a post here (#19) but I get stucked again… i dont have a .ssh directory at all. I am sure! I tried to change its permissions:

    # cd .ssh
    cd: no such file or directory: .ssh
    # chmod 755 ~/.ssh
    chmod: /var/root/.ssh: No such file or directory

    Any ideas?

31. on 10 Dec 2007 at 01:01 31 edding

    @nagybal

    Passwordless Login:

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices/iPhone

32. on 17 Dec 2007 at 03:29 32 Saul

    Hi there!

    Just to complement the tutorial, Amarok will show the “…Should I try to initialize your iPod? if you have no songs in your iPhone.

    A quick workaround is to transfer a song from iTunes and you are done. Please notify me if you can actually let Amarok initilize the iPhone.

33. on 03 Jan 2008 at 15:36 33 Pierre-Antoine Champin

    I tries to let Amarok initialize it, and it worked fine. Apparently, iTunes creates a Ringones directory that Amarok does not create, but I added it manually and it works fine.

    I have a problem though: exiting the music player in the iPhone does not actually stop the application, and the modifications done by Amarok are not taken into account. I have to ssh to the iPhone and kill MobileMusicPlayer to see my changes…

34. on 15 Jan 2008 at 12:13 34 Zubin Ghai

    actually, artwork DOES work in amarok 1.4.8 (and 1.4.6) if you are using the latest libgpod3. Make sure you have selected the iphone from the Ipod drop-down list in the Devices tab, and then use the ‘update artwork’ option. I have confirmed that this works myself.

35. on 15 Feb 2008 at 13:41 35 nagybal

    I just updated my firmware to 1.1.3 (and its great by the way) but it seems to have problems with this sshfs+Amarok (iphone-mount) method…

    I have ithe iphone jalibroken by a new method… no anySim or such… just few clicks and its done:
    http://www.ziphone.org/

    Its connected to the Amarok… but it appears to be empty… the music is not there witch I just copied on the phone (useing Windows version of iTunes)

    Whats the mater?

    ps: Is isn’t it possible slowly to sync with USB?

36. on 16 Feb 2008 at 06:56 36 Core-TX

    I confirm that is no longer working on 1.1.3

37. on 16 Feb 2008 at 13:02 37 Arnold Daniels

    You can try to downgrade back to 1.1.1.

    http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=YakjwxB3nQU&feature=related

    Good luck.

38. on 25 Feb 2008 at 23:14 38 Dream_Team

    I’m on 1.1.3 and I confirm that it’s working.
    Even if I’m using the ipod-touch-mount script (well I’m gonna switch to this one, it will produce less errors …), the fix is the same.

    From now, everything that starts with /var/root must be remplaced by /var/mobile, that’s where iTunes_Control is located on new firmwares. And I think it’s better like this, much more secure since there is no more root-for-everyone, Apple is getting ready for the sdk.

39. on 16 Mar 2008 at 19:38 39 arnold stern

    okay

40. on 03 Apr 2008 at 17:10 40 sicak resimler

    You can disable auto-lock and with that sleep using in:
    Settings -> General -> Auto-Lock => Never

41. on 22 Jun 2008 at 22:58 41 Rakan Rabayah

    Hey Arnold i have one quick question. Now that the iPhone 3G is out do you think this method will work or is this only for jailbroken iPhone’s?

    And I’m a Macbook user using Linux ubuntu, do you think if this doesn’t work i should go back to OS X?

42. on 24 Jun 2008 at 09:22 42 Arnold Daniels

    Rakan: It only works with jailbroken iphone’s, since you need to have SSH installed on the phone.

43. on 30 Jul 2008 at 19:23 43 Martin B.

    If your iPhone is V1.1.3 or 1.1.4 then replace /var/root/Media with /var/mobile/Media.

44. on 06 Aug 2008 at 19:27 44 Marco

    Hi

    Great job !!!
    I used it as a starter point to hack my brand new iphone 3G . The caveat in this one ( firmware 2.0.0 ) is that the iTunes stuff is in /private/var/mobile/Media.

    Once discovered that the rest was easy … or so i thought : they changed the encryption schema so now we have to wait for an update in Amarok …

    Regards,

    Marco

45. on 26 Aug 2008 at 21:28 45 nick

    i use the alpine password to mount and then the root@ip address password screen comes up again then i plug in the the alpine password. ok it should b mounted. amaroks response is always no mounted ipod found. little help?

46. on 27 Aug 2008 at 04:30 46 nick

    and yes the screen is not black or blank. and yes i turned off the auto-lock.

47. on 16 Apr 2009 at 12:21 47 buck

    Hi,
    I have Amarok running my iphone (2G, 2.2) but it can’t *remove* music! This is about to become a problem. Do you know a solution for this? Any help you could give would be very much appreciated!

48. on 16 Jul 2009 at 05:49 48 daniel a

    I want to make sure everyone is aware of this!!!!!!!! I am running iphone 2g with 3.0 OS on it. I performed the steps and it ruined at least one app from working. That app is Air Sharing. I went and looked in the /var/root/Media folder and now all there is now is a broken symlink called iPod_Control. I am thinking that’s where the Public folder was for air sharing. Can anyone please post the output of ls -la /var/root/Media/ for me so I can see what it looks like on phone that hasn’t been monkeyed with? Dang, I would hate to have to reset everything and re-jailbreak it. Anyone help please and yes, I have tried reinstalling Air Sharing but it still just looks like it’s starting but then I just get thrown back to the springboard.

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