| Art Alexion on 1 Jun 2006 14:38:13 -0000 |
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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. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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