You can also add Album Art and if your mp3 already have Art it usually adds it automatically. It can cope with Apple formats but I now use mp3 for music & audiobooks. I can sync music, audiobooks, photos, podcasts & my gmail calendar. I have an 80GM black 6th generation video classic iPod which I can now manage with Floola. įloola was the application which finally allowed me to say goodbye to Windows/iTunes and go completely over to Ubuntu. This allows it to be identified by linux programs and should now allow your music player to find it. My iPod had one entry already of ModelNumStr: xB147 so I added a new line as follows Īnd re-saved it to the iPod. Replacing /media/MY_IPOD with the path and name of your iPod. $ sudo gedit /media/MY_IPOD/iPod_Control/Device/SysInfo The 16 digit number is the iPod’s FirewireID, now type or copy and paste the following into a Terminal after the prompt This should give you a result similar to this type or copy and paste the following into a Terminal after the prompt your iPod needs a SysInfo file adding to it so that it is identified by your system, I found this option to created worked first time. Now connect your iPod using the USB cable provided and it should auto mount, you now need to navigate to /media to determine the mount point of your iPod [mine show up as /media/MY_IPOD.