I bit the bullet today and switched to Ubuntu... It is a little slower than I thought it would be (but hey - it's on my old P4) - Just latching onto Amarok now :)
D. On Jan 26, 2:04 pm, RobMongoose <[email protected]> wrote: > Songbird is interesting and shows potential, but in my experience it's > still a little too unstable for everyday use. > > Using an iPod with Linux used to be a nightmare - there was always a > very good chance that you'd end up corrupting the silly Apple database > on the iPod and end up having to do a restore, but the various app > developers seem to have cracked that one so now most decent Linux > media players will support it properly. Tbh, I really wish the effort > to port Amarok to windows hadn't fizzled out as I think it's a far > superior player to anything currently available. Persevere. It'll be > worth it :) > > RM > > On Jan 25, 6:06 pm, NumPy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Jan 24, 6:34 pm, DaveDog <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The other option of course is to issue the ultimatium... either XP > > > goes or I do... > > > > Seriously - I'll give Amarok a try. > > > > D. > > > > On Jan 25, 11:37 am, NumPy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Jan 24, 4:23 pm, Christopher Stamper <[email protected]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:12 PM, DaveDog <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > I really really want to start using Ubuntu at home - trouble is my > > > > > > wife and kids all have iPods and want to keep using iTunes - what > > > > > > can > > > > > > I do? > > > > > > They say that an older version of iTunes (7?) works with Wine. That's > > > > > not > > > > > been my experience, but... > > > > > > You could use a different app to sync music (amarok, etc). But if > > > > > you're > > > > > using a ipod touch or iphone, it would't suffice. > > > > > Indeed Chris is right here. The application does NOT work well at all > > > > from 'clean' install in WINE. However <a href="http:// > > > > frankscorner.org/ > > > > index.php?p=itunes6"> This </a> gentleman found a work around. > > > > > > Maybe someone else can suggest some itunes replacement applications... > > > > > Sadly there are no dropins, for replacing it. However Amarok DOES play > > > > well with them, and most other music players. Your solution my be to > > > > just educate on a new Application man... > > > > > HTH > > > > > ~Billy > > > Actually Dave I take that back! After a bit of looking there IS an > > application that will import from iTunes, and even resembles it, > > SongBird is its name built by the Mozilla > > group.http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2009/01/review-songbird-sleek-simp... > > > ~Billy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
