ipod Shuffle with Linux -
As a sort of Christmas present, the company that I work for gave all employees a 512MB ipod shuffle. I though that this was all pretty cool, until I realised that unlike normal mp3 players, you can't put songs on the ipod without iTunes, apple's proprietry software. Not a problem for Windows users, but as a Linux man, I was less than impressed.
After some googling I found that gtkPod is an application for Linux which allows you to manage ipods of all generations, including ipod, ipod nano, ipod video, and ipod shuffle.
A quick
Now my only gripe with my sexy ipod is that it doesn't play Ogg Vorbis. But I found a good script to convert .ogg to .mp3 . More on that later...
-Jonesy
As a sort of Christmas present, the company that I work for gave all employees a 512MB ipod shuffle. I though that this was all pretty cool, until I realised that unlike normal mp3 players, you can't put songs on the ipod without iTunes, apple's proprietry software. Not a problem for Windows users, but as a Linux man, I was less than impressed.
After some googling I found that gtkPod is an application for Linux which allows you to manage ipods of all generations, including ipod, ipod nano, ipod video, and ipod shuffle.
A quick
apt-get install gtkpod
later, and I was away, the program was almost as intuitive as iTunes. I had a few problems with the version bundled with ubuntu, but after compiling the latest version from source, it worked like a dream.Now my only gripe with my sexy ipod is that it doesn't play Ogg Vorbis. But I found a good script to convert .ogg to .mp3 . More on that later...
-Jonesy