An Ipod System for Linux - Summary

21 October 2006

At the moment, there is no iTunes-alike for Linux. There is no all-in-one program that will allow you to do everything that iTunes does. Therefore I attempted to develop a system that I could train a non-technical person to use.

  1. `Why iPods are fantastic, two reasons why iPods are crap and how to

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    mess with an old iPod.`_

  2. We have an iPod, and Linux. So what now?

  3. Using Sound Juicer to squeeze out that music.

  4. Using gtkpod to manage your song library.

  5. Mounting the Ipod.

  6. Unmounting the iPod.

  7. The end-user instructions.

1 Daniel says...

My KDE system on Gentoo does a good job automatically mounting my HFS+ iPod under my user account (only because I'm in plugdev). Also as an alternative, Amarok does a great job handling all my library management (including podcasts) and transfers, regardless of where I choose to mount it. The only thing I think it doesn't do is the video transfer, which only just got implemented in libgpod. Then again, I don't know why I'd want to watch video on such a small screen anyway.

This is a great guide though. I just broke down and replaced my dying iRiver H10 with an iPod and this was very useful in setting my system up. Thanks!

Posted at 1:48 p.m. on November 6, 2006


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