fermulator's dashboard

I had the same problem with the XP version, itunes was not an open application but in my processes there was an itunes.exe running. as soon as I killed that it mounted immediately. Hope this can help

I just installed Ubuntu 8.10 and songbird RC3 (fresh install, no copying songbirds setting, no nothing), and I have this problem too with my Ipod Classic. this time It took somewhere near 3min and 49 sek. for songbird to mount (usually takes TIMES longer).

I look at the error console(while doing nothing else then mounting the ipod), and it came up with this error shortly after i plugged my ipod to the pc:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE) [nsISupports.QueryInterface]" nsresult: "0x80004002 (NS_NOINTERFACE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://songbird/content/bindings/playlist.xml :: destroy :: line 631" data: no]

I have no idea if it had anything to do with the Ipod loading thing, but i figured it wouldn't do any harm to show it

well if you look at your system stats while its "mounting" you'll see its writing a lot of data to the ipod-songbird db and using a decent amount of processing power to do so. i'm using ubuntu intrepid ibex w/ 180gb ipod classic. from when you mount, sync, and disconnect the ipod, there should be very minimal writing to the hard disk that songbird should do imo.

no way in hell i'd delete the .songbird directory. absolutely piss poor advice. rename it instead.

you're welcome, it's always a pleasure to propose methods that are more annoying than the bug itself :D

Btw, for me it depends : sometimes canceling the mounting works fairly quickly, sometimes it doesn't work at all (or mayby I don't have your patience :p)

yeah fixing the album art problem would also be key. although i agree with xime that fixing the mount problem would be a great priority.
thanks though for your method of remounting. however canceling the mounting operation seems to take 10 or so minutes by itself. :(

I have to add one more complaint to this long list...
Songbird *takes forever* to mount my 5.5th gen Ipod Classic (80 Gb), until I cancel the mounting operation, then it "only" takes a few minutes to become usable in Songbird : in the Ipod Device Support window, the device is then mentionned as "idle", but it is accessible in reading or writing files

(Ah, another bug is that managing my ipod with songbird mess all my album art up, but it's not really the subject of this thread :p)

Thanks for the addon, but it would be really great if these annoyances could be gotten rid of, because Sondbird is by far the best music librairy manager on linux !

It's too bad... the 'Get touring info for your area' add-on is really cool. And the player is sleek 'looking'. I hope that as SB is developed further, the speediness improves. I've read that it's "better than it used to be" compared to pre-v.70 releases - which is really surprising since I can barely imagine the app being useable in any way if it was even "slower".

I'll check back in on it in a few more revisions... it's still waaaay to clunky and slow to be useable for me at this point. And not just with the iPod. The upshot is that after reading some posts about this issue, I was reminded about MediaMonkey. That app has come a long way, and after installing it on 'top' of SB, it shows NO SIGNS of any of the slowness to mount problems I see in SB... so I doubt the issue has much of anything to do with anything being messed jup on my iPod... and clearing the SB profile based on Boris suggestion (thanks for that) didn't help at all.

"not quite there yet..."

Confirmed on Ubuntu 8.04, ipod 80gb video, and songbird 0.7. Both songbird and the ipod have fresh databases.

I'll confirm I've experienced this too in Ubuntu...

I'd also like to confirm the LONG time to mount an ipod device in songbird.

* ipod 80GB Classic

Takes 20-30 minutes to mount.