@Sebastien Bacher i implore you to change your mind on this. Please
hear me out.
Can we not only emulate, but can we blow right past Apple? Mark
Shuttleworth, July 22 2008.
The answer is definitely yes! if we take care of these vital user
experience details.
Bear in mind that Rythmbox = iTunes for the new customer to Ubuntu
coming over from the Mac or Windows world. It has to compete head to
head and at least roughly stack up or it creates an enormous hole for
the Ubuntu customer who then can not achieve this functionality without
keeping a Mac or Windows machine around. Contemporary versions of iTunes
itself will not play on Linux even with Wine so Rhythmbox *has* to play
this role. Millions of customers have iPods or other media players that
they have become accustomed to syncing with iTunes on Mac or Windows so
their expectations have been firmly set. Even before it is important to
be 'Social from the start' it is much more important to be able to
This fix has actually been done since *summer of 2009* and released
since 2, July 2010 in the 0.13.0 Albatross release of Rythmbox and
there is plenty of time and its such a breathtakingly basic feature of
the leading GNU/Linux distro's default modern media player to be missing
from an LTS that it is compelling to incorporate into the 10.0.4.2
LiveCD and even earlier than that via updates for 10.04 and 10.04.1.
Would we really want LTS users to be stuck without such a fundamental
capacity until April 2013??? Absolutely not.
Lucid is a very special release, not just because it is an LTS, but
because of the truly revolutionary breakthrough it represents in ease of
use for Ubuntu. Tremendous numbers of new Ubuntu customers are being
exposed to Ubuntu and Linux through this release. In order to fully
back up Mark Shuttleworth's vision of GNU/Linux that is as easy to use
as the Mac, we must take care to fill in the basic functions of a modern
OS and like it or not, support for basic synchronization of media
players as iTunes has spoiled millions of customers with is very much
one of those features. Even though it is challenging to move from
0.12.8 to 0.13.0, it is very important in order to do so to move toward
the Ubuntu vision of Mark Shuttleworth.
The developer, Jonathan Matthew announced the fix release in the 0.13.0 and
later versions:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310774
Jonathan Matthew [rhythmbox developer] 2010-03-29
I've just merged code based on Paul Bellamy's GSoC 2009 project into master.
iPod sync now works.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #310774
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310774
** Summary changed:
- Rhythmbox missing the normal synchronization feature in Lucid
+ Rhythmbox missing the basic, normal syncing feature in Lucid
** Changed in: rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
** Changed in: ayatana-ubuntu
Status: New = Confirmed
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Rhythmbox missing the basic, normal syncing feature in Lucid
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