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Follow my advice above. to rule out something you might be doing wrong with visudo, kill hald with sudo, "sudo killall hald" then plugin your ipod then fire up songbird, make sure you have the ipod extension installed in songbird! – peter.cybersource, on November 12, 2009 14:35

Make sure you have the ipod extension installed in songbird – peter.cybersource, on November 12, 2009 14:33

I was going to repost, you need to kill hald. So with visudo, add nopasswd for /usr/bin/killall then in the songbird executable add "sudo killall hald" above the first things that aren't comments in that file, this way when you start songbird, it will restart hald (spawn). I tried this, works like a charm. What's pissed me off is the cover art barely works, which is why i moved away from rhythmbox in the first place. But songbird wins out cause of all the other cool things in it! – peter.cybersource, on November 06, 2009 21:50

If you don't want to logout and back in again, you could just reload the hald service, "sudo hald reload". For now, I'm going to add the hald service to sudo with no password, then create a script to first reload the hald service then fire up songbird. – peter.cybersource, on November 05, 2009 22:02