Tyrion wrote:
DJA wrote:
My sister just got an iPod. She dual-boots Linux and W2K. Since she
did absolutely no research before buying her Shiny, she has now
discovered that iTunes supports only Mac, XP, and Vista. Go figure. ;)
So she can't even download music onto it!
Is there any practical support for using iTunes, or even an iPod in
Linux? Right now she just wants to be able to put music onto the the
little beast. I don't think sharing is even on her radar at the moment.
She's running FC5 or FC6 (I can't remember - maybe it's time to move
her to F8), and I've never really paid attention to what music apps
ship with Fedora.
I've had binary luck with my girlfriend's Ipod Video. Some applications
work wonderfully well with it, like rythmbox and gtkpod. Others would
crash or even crash the ipod (you should look up the reset sequence for
the particular Ipod before-hand, you may need it) but none caused any
data corruption or anything. A lot of things are hit and miss, I like
using one program for this and another for that because the features are
more developed in one program than they are in another.
I found several Linux apps that claim to be useful in one sense or
another with an iPod. Thanks for pointing out some others.
You will want to have a computer somewhere that she can run actual
Itunes on because that is the only way I know of to update the Ipod.
Just beware of buying music from Itunes, it has DRM from hell.
Tyrion
This addresses the most important question, without an answer to which,
any others would be moot: is it possible to load music onto an iPod
using a (hopefully native) Linux app?
As I originally mentioned, she does not have access to a suitable
version of Windows to use the official iTunes software (it is only
supported in XP, Vista and OS X), although being able to load DRM-free
music from other sources is acceptable, if not preferable.
At the moment I am disinclined to recommend or support any service which
encumbers legally-purchased music with DRM - unless that DRM is
practically removable. Even for family (She Who Must be Obeyed aside).
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