After a day of trying to figure out how to get this sync going I found out a few things:
For some reason there has been a lot of trouble syncing iPods with Rhythmbox in Ubuntu 14.04, lots of people apparently have this problem including me.
The most paramount problem that I had today was that every time I would click on my iPod in Rhythmbox under Devices, Rhythmbox would shut down. It took me a while to figure out …