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Submitted by BlackJackal on Sun, 05/11/2008 - 10:08am.

Does anyone know if there is any other way to enable IPOD device support since this

http://addons.songbirdnest.com/extensions/detail/12

No longer works

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jkoshi Says: Mon, 05/12/2008 - 11:35am

We took out iPod support in 0.5 as we made some changes to the device API, but it's back in 0.6. So there are 2 things you can do depending on your tolerance for early software:

1. Download a 0.6 nightly build.
2. Wait for the 0.6 final release (about 3 weeks).

(You'll still need the add-on).

tmiller Says: Tue, 05/13/2008 - 7:54pm

So how do I install matching (0.6 compatible) plugins?

Tom Miller

jkoshi Says: Wed, 05/14/2008 - 10:10am

Since you're rocking the nightly, go to the Nightly Builds page and scroll to the bottom. You'll find links to 0.6pre add-ons for the iPod, MTP, more. You can also go to the add-ons site and there are a few add-ons that already work with 0.6pre.

tmiller Says: Thu, 05/15/2008 - 7:07pm

Plugged my ipod in and it immediately closed songbird and the standard media player opened. I closed that and now Songbird won't open at all.

Tom Miller

jkoshi Says: Fri, 05/16/2008 - 12:08pm

Are you using a nightly and a nightly add-on? I was having the exact same thing happen to me with the MTP add-on. Try older versions of the nightly add-on as sometimes it gets broken during development.

If you continue to have problems, please go ahead and file a bug.

tmiller Says: Fri, 05/16/2008 - 5:31pm

So the two would match. At least it isn't dieing now. It sees my ipod, it sees a CD but won't play anything off the ipod or CD.

Tom Miller

jkoshi Says: Mon, 05/19/2008 - 9:03am

It's neat that it sees a CD! We aren't officially supporting CDs yet. As far as playing from the iPod, that I thought was working. Please go ahead and file a bug with as many details as you can provide.