The bug is described in the GNOME Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=434237 In summary ipod-sharp breaks newer ipods because it doesn't write the podcast information in the proper way which leads to the ipod claiming not to have any podcasts on it. The gnome bugzilla features a patch by the developer but there has not been a release with it, yet. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 193801 [details] Bumped ipod-sharp-0.8.2-r1 ebuild based on the old one The attached ebuild patches ipod-sharp-0.8.2 with the patch from GNOME Bugzilla
Created attachment 193803 [details, diff] Patch for ipod-sharp-0.8.2 The patch from gnome bugzilla (fix_ipod_podcast_playlist.patch)
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