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Re: [PLUG] moving from iTunes to Amarok
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On 2007-01-03 19:05, Art Alexion wrote:
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> 4. I'm not sure of this last one, but I have heard that the software in the
> iPod itself converts mp3 to m4a/aac on the fly, and avoiding this conversion
> by loading m4a/aac files saves battery life.
Wow, there doesn't seem any good reason for that...
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> My advice is to keep it as m4a and not convert at all.
Or try gtkpod, assuming you had a ipod as a reason to use iTunes. It
can sync music between your computer and ipod device, and it seems like
it plays music locally. I used it to put mp3s on a new ipod shuffle and
it worked great, but I don't have playback setup yet on the new SUSE
10.2 install.
--
Kevin
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