With Tony Vroon's help we got my iPod Nano 2nd Gen workinf under Ubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06) using GTKPOD:
sudo apt-get install gtkpod then when its installed, just type gtkpod at the commandline or alt+f2 (run). Regards Richard On 24/11/2007, Phil Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Richard Forth wrote: > > |I havent tried it actually, I thought you needed itunes... I will try > > that and report back > > http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173 > http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61131 > > may help. > > The Apple design philosophy is to take purchased music from a CD or the > iTunes Store into iTunes and then put that music (or some of it) onto > the iPod by a sync process. It is designed as a one way process with one > iPod only connecting to one computer. > > If you take a blank iTunes installation and show it a full iPod it will > want to erase the iPod in order to sync with its own (empty) collection. > > The iPod is basically a disk or flash drive with a media player, you can > enable the disk mode (or set it to manually manage) then the iPod > appears as a drive to your OS - like a USB memory stick. > > The music folders are usually hidden in Windows until you turn on the > "show hidden or system files" option in Windows Explorer. > > If your music collection will fit on your iPod you could drag and drop > the whole lot onto it providing your OS recognises it as a drive and can > handle the file system. > > > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > -- ***** Richard Forth "I used to be indecisive, but now, I''m not so sure!" *****
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