Question: 1. What ubuntu applications provide support? (guides, how to's, status)
2. Also, specifically, details on support for syncing music to iPhone's and iPod's with the latest OS version:

	* Can you sync music to apple devices using >iOS4? (iPhone & iPod)
	* What applications allow you to do this and how? (guides, how to's, status)

### What has already been established is:

* Apple does not support Linux and has no plans to.
* [libimobiledevice](http://www.libimobiledevice.org) provides some support, however it currently **does not** support music/video synchronization with devices `>iOS4`. Go to [libimobiledevice](http://www.libimobiledevice.org) and scroll to the section titled "**[Status](http://www.libimobiledevice.org/#status)**" to see if your device version is supported.

Answer: 
Just going to add that it's libgpod that currently can't handle DBVersion > 4. The most recent release goes back to July, as does the most recent commit ( <http://gtkpod.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=gtkpod/libgpod;a=summary> )
I don't know what the status is but my guess is that it's currently on hold and not being worked on.

They however implemented the following in version 0.8.2 so who knows when someone out there will provide a solution to this.

> 
> iPhone 4/iPod Touch 4/iPad/Nano 6g are still unsupported in this
>  release. However, libgpod now has a mechanism to dynamically load a
>  module named $libdir/libgpod/libhashab.so. This will be useful to
>  easily enable support for these devices if someone comes up with a way
>  to compute the music database checksum.
> 
> 
> 

You can read the full release note here : <http://old.nabble.com/libgpod-0.8.2-td32125543.html>

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**Update:** User Israr Khan seems to be working on this right now, you can get a quick idea of the status on his twitter: <http://twitter.com/#!/isrark>
Everyone appears in agreement that any kind of Linux integration with iTunes is shaky at best. For me at least though the *real* problem is "how do I copy music from Linux onto an iDevice and play it"; iTunes is not a requirement. Here is my solution to that much more tractable problem.

1. Install [foobar2000](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foobar2000/id1072807669) on your iDevice (I love fb2k on the desktop - enough to run it in [Wine](https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1749), just discovered the app version, hope it's anywhere near as good)
2. Start foobar2000, gear icon in upper right for Tools, [FTP Server](https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Foobar2000_Mobile:FTP_Server)
	1. Allow write access = on
	2. Server running = on
3. Connect to the IP address listed using the FTP client of your choice and upload music to `foobar2000 Music Folder` (I suspect I'll use [rclone](https://rclone.org/ftp/) to handle syncing eventually)

After exiting the FTP server foobar2000 will see your music and you are off to the races. And if you don't like foobar2000 as a player I suspect other 3rd party apps could also play from the file system.