Art Alexion on 1 Jun 2006 14:38:13 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] linux compatible MP3 players?


On Wednesday 31 May 2006 19:31, Stephen Gran wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 07:20:04PM -0400, W. Chris Shank said:
> > I'm considering getting an MP3 player. Is the iPod Linux compatible at
> > all? Is there another MP3 player that is Linux compatible? I guess by
> > compatible, I mean that I can create playlists and upload them and
> > songs to it. I suspect I'm the only one who doesn't have one of these
> > yet - so I hope others here can tell me about their experiences.
>
> The iPod is certainly linux compatible - gtkpod does a very nice job as
> an interface.  Many ogf the other mp3 players can jsut be mouonted as
> usb mass storage, and you can copy file on or off as you need to.

I have a shuffle which has but 9 hours storage (512 MB).  I have used gtkpod 
and amarok.  Both work fine.  Amarok has a nice drag and drop interface and 
its a great player, but for the limited-space shuffle it never warns you 
about running out of space before error-ing out during a transfer.

gtkpod is a better transfer program, but inferior at music playing and 
management.  

I would not recommend using both with the same iPod as it seems to mess up 
indexes and stuff on the device.  Right now, I am using iTunes over samba 
because it manages the shuffle better than the Linux offerings.  iTunes is 
weaker than AmaroK, though in that it doesn't automatically update the 
Library when you add tunes to defined directories like Amarok does.  (iTunes 
likes to think of itself as your only source for music so it assumes that you 
will use it to download and rip rather than just getting the files elsewhere 
and using iTunes as a device manager only.)  I'd like to create an iTunes 
vmware thing so that I don't have to leave the Linux computer.
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