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  • Have an iPod? Use Windows? Get Songbird

    Following up on my last article about using your iPod with Ubuntu, I decided to take a crack at what open source tools are available for those iPod owners who use Windows. As it turns out, there isn’t much. While a download of Amarok for Windows is available, good luck getting it to recognize or sync with your iPod.

    But what I did find was the latest version of Songbird, and that might just be all you need. Songbird is built on the Mozilla platform and has an extensive list of community-contributed addons. The last time I checked out Songbird, it was probably still 2007, and while interesting, it didn’t strike me as particularly useful. That is, until I started using Windows. What seems rather mundane and just one of many options on Linux becomes a rock star on Windows.

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  • Using Your iPod with (K)ubuntu 9.10

    After a rocky beginning, I’ve been able to do many neat things with my Black iPod Classic with 120 GB, but it hasn’t been without its trials and tribulations. In this post, I’ll write about the tools I use to sync music, add photos, and transcode videos to the correct format. Being a Kubuntu user, note that my bias is towards KDE tools. If you use others, please list them in the comments. As with many things on Linux, there’s more than one way to do it. (Apologies to Larry Wall)Those who know me well are familiar with my unhealthy dislike for all things Apple. Perhaps it’s the way they attach DRM to everything they touch. Or maybe it’s the cult of Steve. Or maybe it’s because they make shiny, overpriced goods that they push to the gullible. Naturally, when my wife looked for something to give me on my birthday, she purchased an iPod. To her credit, she told me what she was thinking before the purchase, and I made a mad dash to Google to see about alternative, friendlier devices. In all honesty, I couldn’t find a better device for the money, and so an iPod it was.Read the whole post:

    in reference to: Using Your iPod with (K)ubuntu 9.10 (view on Google Sidewiki)