iPod

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 02:32, Alan Jackson wrote:
> I just saw the story about the $99 iPod from Apple and started to
> get that old itch... 8-)
> 
> I saw that there is a Sourceforge project for accessing the iPod from
> Linux, but no SxS. Experiences anyone?

I do it all the time. Both via USB2 and firewire. The application I
prefer is gtkPod. It does as advertised. The iPod is just a hard disk.
The reason you need software is that you do not just copy songs on to
it. It uses a database describing them. With up to 40gb of disk space,
this is not unreasonable. gtkPod manages reading the current database
and adding/removing your songs. The iPod itself does not make this
database. On Apple/Windows, you use iTunes. BTW, at some point in the
near future the CodeWeavers support for iTunes on Linux may be complete.
Until that time, I suggest gtkPod.

Note that you can get them with either a MAC file system or 'good' old
FAT. The FAT format works best. The MAC FS (hpfs, IIRC) is not so very
useful.

The $99 beastie must be some other iPod. I read that Apple were going to
announce something this week. Perhaps it is that. Or do you have some
more info on this?

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