Phill Coxon wrote:
I recently joined Quest Healthclub in Ferrymead to improve my fitness
again.
All of the carido equipment - treadmills, biks etc - have screens with
an ipod av input so I can plug an ipod in and watch videos. I've tested
this with my wife's ipod and it works great.
The problem is that I don't want to use itunes and the latest ipod
classics are not compatible with the RockBox open source junkbox
(rockbox.org).
Is there anyone on the list using a late model ipod with linux?
Can you confirm whether the latest ipods will work with amarok or what
other software you recommend to transfer music / video to the ipod
without having to resort to itunes on Windows?
Recommendations for great alternative portable mp4 video players are
very welcome. The one catch is that they need to have an ipod
compatible socket that I can use to plug into at the gym...
Thanks!
I'd suggest telling Apple to get stuffed, and take your business
elsewhere. If enough people took that attitude, instead of
subscribing to Apple's dictatorship, then perhaps they would no longer
have so much control over this particular market.
As for alternative media players, I have looked for a nice, Linux
friendly one, and I found a few that sounded as if they would be easy
to use with Linux. But I can't remember what any of them were.
-Aidan
