Amarok 256-songs limit for iPod
I decided to give my iPod a try under Linux (Fedora Core 4, x86_64). For a long time now, I’ve been using Amarok for playing music. Conveniently, it already has a function for transfering files to an iPod under the “Media Device” tab. However, there was a problem.
I added one song, after which the iTunes database file (iTunesDB) was corrupted, showing only a few songs. Note that only the database file was corrupted; the files were still there, but they were orphan in that they could not be accessed by the iPod software. Although I was unable to restore the iTunesDB, a lot of testing showed that, no matter how many or which songs I tried to transfer or delete, it was always only the 256 first songs that were visible.
This 256 songs limit was very confusing. After some research, I found that it was caused by the old Amarok version that I was using (Amarok 1.3.9). Upgrading to the latest stable release (Amarok 1.4.5) should fix the problem, although I’m currently too lazy and will have to settle with 256 files.
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