If you don't want to go the full music software route with amarok, I would recommend gtkpod <http://www.gtkpod.org/about.html>. I've used it on my xubuntu laptop for 2 years with my 2nd generation nano and haven't had any problems.
aaron.jor...@gmail.com http://aaron.jorb.in Twitter: @aaronjorbin 971-231-3499 On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Rogan Creswick <cresw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Russell Senior <seni...@aracnet.com> wrote: >> >> What linux software do people like and why? >> > > I highly recommend Amarok. It "just works" and it integrates with > some music suggestion web services. It's also very well polished, and > it's consistently been more stable than the other offerings I've found > (such as rhythmbox, or some one-off apps that just shove music onto an > ipod). > > In all respects, it's worked very well for me. You can even control > it remotely from a command line, if you want (so you can script it > trivially--say if you want to use cron as an alarm clock). > > --Rogan > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug