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If you are using the awesome program Winamp for organizing your music then you might be at a dead end if you try to snychronize your iPhone with Winamp. Well, Winamp has a tool for snychronization, but it was coded for the old iPod versions and not the future ones. But keep your tail up!

Winamp’s tool for synchronazation is called ml_ipod. It’s just a normal plugin downloadable from CHIP and equal. Click here to get to the download site!

And now Winamp should detect your iPod and ask for your type. I think ITouch and equal were recently added. Then you can see your music on the iPod. Don’t be shocked, if there is nothing inside and you might have 10 gigs on it. Winamp doesn’t detect your music which was put on it via iTunes.

Now complete the following list step by step and you will be able to synchonize your iTouch/iPhone via Winamp

1. Before starting, remove all the songs from your iPod using iTunes.
2. Start Winamp and syncronize your songs to your iPod with ml_ipod as usual.
3. When you’re done, start up iPhoneBrowser (or SSH/Mobile Terminal) and navigate to /User/Media/iTunes_Control/iTunes. Then delete the iTunesCDB file (NOT the iTunesDB file).
4. Start up iTunes and allow it to find your iPod. If you look in the music
   section, you should see all the files syncronized using ml_ipod.
5. Close iTunes.
6. You must carry out steps 3-6 whenever adding/removing songs with ml_ipod.

An example brwoser is WinSCP.

If you’ve started WinSCP start a new session with

IP: 192.168.2.100:22

User: root

Password: alpine

If you have more questions, don’t hesitate to ask here.

Have a nice day!