iPod

[James McDonald]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 02:32, Alan Jackson wrote:
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>>I just saw the story about the $99 iPod from Apple and started to
>>get that old itch... 8-)
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>>I saw that there is a Sourceforge project for accessing the iPod from
>>Linux, but no SxS. Experiences anyone?
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>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.
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>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.
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I was given a mini ipod by my brother. Anyone successfully using one 
with linux on list?