> Yeah, I tried that originally and saw a wealth of options, googling > some of them indicated that most of these solutions are geared toward > music and album management, so I figured I'd fish for strong opinions, > since those tend to be functional solutions. ;-) I played around with > it last night, even reformatted the iPod so that I'd have a clean > slate to work with. Some of these programs don't have an intuitive > way to manage the podcasts, others download and sync with the iPod, but > list each episode in the music section under it's own artist, album, > and song title, others will download podcasts but can't see my iPod. > I ultimately ended up re-syncing with the windows computer for the > time being. Thankfully it's Friday though so I'll have plenty of time > tonight to fool around with getting this to work the way I want.
If some programs have trouble syncing withe iPod I wouldn't be surprised, because iTunes for Windows formats the iPod with the NTFS filesystem, which I have always found is a little quirky to mount with read-write access. Using the NTFS support in the Linux kernel (i.e. the 'ntfs' module), you can make an entry in /etc/fstab with the 'user' option to allow mounting as a normal user; only I haven't been able to actually *access* the NTFS filesystem as a normal user once it's mounted using that method. :-/ Using the ntfs-3g package it's possible to mount NTFS read-write such that it's usable as a normal user, but by default it's not possible to *mount* an NTFS partition as a normal user, though it is possible to set up. For an explanation, see: http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged Instead of setting the ntfs-3g binary SUID and changing permissions on the block device, I've been mounting + unmounting the NTFS volume as root and then accessing it as a normal user. So I see NTFS as the stumbling block concerning easy iPod support. P.S.: Sorry for screwing up thread following by having to post directly rather than reply, but I currently don't have a choice. My ISP suddenly dropped their entire C block of IP addresses, and so I'm currently not able to get mailing list posts directly until DNS catches up. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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