Comments on: New iPod on Linux

By: beuno

beuno — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:18:13 +0000

Peter, if you would like to develop a bit more on how to do it specifically for the ipod I’d love to update the post with it.

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kbglob - tecnologia para geeks, no para tu mamá » iPod nano en Ubuntu — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:17:32 +0000

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By: Weeber

Weeber — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:42:41 +0000

“From what’s available on the market over here in Argentina, and what I’ve seen around the forums on Linux-compatibility, it seemed like the best choice.”

I’m sure that in Argentina you can find SanDisk MP3/MP4 players at a better price and their compatibility with linux is the best (a plain USB memory), you dont need a program to manage them, you just drag ‘n drop your music. So linux-compatibility is not the reason to buy an iPod nano (even though is very compatible with linux but not the best), I prefer to say that its design is

By: edgar

edgar — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:47:59 +0000

Great, i use hipo[1] for manage my ipod nano and it works just great, and of course i use rhythmbox
1- http://www.gnome.org/projects/hipo/

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:05:45 +0000

You don’t need to use windows to create FAT32 filesystems.

Package: dosfstools
Description: Utilities to create and check MS-DOS FAT filesystems
Inside of this package there are two utilities (mkdosfs alias
mkfs.dos, and dosfsck alias fsck.msdos) to create and to check MS-DOS
FAT filesystems on either hard disks or floppies under Linux. This
version uses the enhanced boot sector/superblock format of DOS 3.3
as well as provides a default dummy boot sector code.

By: Pascal de Bruijn

Pascal de Bruijn — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:09:00 +0000

I’m using the iPod with FAT so it’ll still work when connected to Windows machines (how ever rarely that happens). You don’t need Windows to format FAT, it can be done using mkfs.vfat.

I can highly recommend trying Banshee. The nice thing about Banshee is that it transcodes my .flac collection transparantly into MP3s without me having to pull open a terminal and transcode manually. This saves me a lot of effort.