dear all, have always heard that ipods work beautifully with ubuntu and with amarok. so here's this fresh-mint sealed classic 80gb ipod on my desk, nah! not mine. i wouldn't buy that overpriced undersized pineapple.
i connect the ipod, and rhythmbox wants to take over. i quit it, and open the ipod icon on my desktop. transfer a sample file *.mp3 to the root folder of ipod, disconnect, and find this cutesy musical hard-disk doesn't even know of its existence, so i'm metaphorically listenin' to the sound of silence. my friend tells me it is imperative to download and install iTunes 7. blah blah. comment ignored. some quick googling, and i discover after quitting rhythmbox, launching amarok, open settings>media device. take the drop-down menu, and request amar singh to handle the pretentious-sounding 'apple ipod media device'. jay leno, interview how many ipod folks on the street know the apple ipod is an apple ipod media device. :-) a click on 'auto-detect' shows up the smartsy apple hard-disk. i click 'accept', and then in the task-bar, dutifully click 'connect'. this is where things get very very interesting. amarok politely informs me: it has found no iTunesDB, so should amarok initialize the ipod? this is dodgy. would roger walters alter his lyrics to sing 'another brick in the pod' ? i panic, unplug the ipod, pack it back in its velvet black box and shrink-wrap peel, and scamper with my touch-typing to this mailing list. what gives? anybody, jimi hendrix wants to know are you experienced? have you ever connected a spankin' new pod straight out of the box to the linux thing and got it singin' the blue-screen of death metal? heck! why am i thinkin' of ankur rohtagi? am i? niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
