[ubuntu-uk] Software Media Player Recommendations (iPod sync)
Morning all, I used to use amarok for my media player when it was back in the 1.4 series. I liked that I could right click all collection and select sync to device, and it would. Try as I might, I cannot get amarok 2 to work this simply. In fact, at the moment, any context menus disappear as soon as you move the mouse (I'll look at filing a bug later today). So, what I am after is recommendations as to what media players other use, primarily as a conduit to syncing to ipods (mine is an old 30GB Video, nothing new!) So far I have tried: Rhythmbox - had to copy and paste files from my collection to the ipod Banshee - no 'devices' section, and locked up when I tried to exit Exaile - same as rhythmbox gtkpod - couldn't work out how to configure Amarok 2 - device visable, but (when tested previously) could only manually select 'transfer to device' (rather than sync) from context menu. Now, context menus won't let me select anything, and interface fits into gnome even less than before. If I am doing it wrong with any of the above players, please let me know! Podcatching ability would be nice, but not essential, as I also have an iphone which will download them over the air (and currently is being used for this). Thanks in advance, Steve Garton sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software Media Player Recommendations (iPod sync)
2009/4/22 Stephen Garton sheepeating...@sheepeatingtaz.co.uk: If I am doing it wrong with any of the above players, please let me know! Podcatching ability would be nice, but not essential, as I also have an iphone which will download them over the air (and currently is being used for this). My wife has the same ipod as you, and I use banshee to sync it. It pretty much just works. What version of banshee are you using? The more recent versions are more stable and reliable. One nice feature that banshee has which I dont think the others do is that it transcodes audio to a format the ipod understands. For example I have Ogg audio files in my collection, and dragging them to the ipod icon causes them to be converted to mp3 as they are copied. Keeping the original Ogg version on my disk. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software Media Player Recommendations (iPod sync)
On 22 Apr 2009, at 07:17, Stephen Garton sheepeating...@sheepeatingtaz.co.uk wrote: Morning all, I used to use amarok for my media player when it was back in the 1.4 series. I liked that I could right click all collection and select sync to device, and it would. Try as I might, I cannot get amarok 2 to work this simply. In fact, at the moment, any context menus disappear as soon as you move the mouse (I'll look at filing a bug later today). So, what I am after is recommendations as to what media players other use, primarily as a conduit to syncing to ipods (mine is an old 30GB Video, nothing new!) So far I have tried: Rhythmbox - had to copy and paste files from my collection to the ipod Banshee - no 'devices' section, and locked up when I tried to exit Exaile - same as rhythmbox gtkpod - couldn't work out how to configure Amarok 2 - device visable, but (when tested previously) could only manually select 'transfer to device' (rather than sync) from context menu. Now, context menus won't let me select anything, and interface fits into gnome even less than before. If I am doing it wrong with any of the above players, please let me know! Podcatching ability would be nice, but not essential, as I also have an iphone which will download them over the air (and currently is being used for this). Thanks in advance, Steve Garton sheepeatingtaz.co.uk You could try Songbird. I use it to sync my iPod, and I think it has a stable release now. It also integrated nicely with The Hype Machine and others, so you can stream and download free (legal?) music. Thanks Harry Rickards-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software Media Player Recommendations (iPod sync)
On 22/04/09 07:27, Alan Pope wrote: 2009/4/22 Stephen Gartonsheepeating...@sheepeatingtaz.co.uk: If I am doing it wrong with any of the above players, please let me know! Podcatching ability would be nice, but not essential, as I also have an iphone which will download them over the air (and currently is being used for this). My wife has the same ipod as you, and I use banshee to sync it. It pretty much just works. What version of banshee are you using? The more recent versions are more stable and reliable. One nice feature that banshee has which I dont think the others do is that it transcodes audio to a format the ipod understands. For example I have Ogg audio files in my collection, and dragging them to the ipod icon causes them to be converted to mp3 as they are copied. Keeping the original Ogg version on my disk. Cheers, Al. Cheers Al, I'll take a look when I get home. I Probably have done something daft like not activated a plugin! Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
