ipod madness

[John L Fjellstad]

Francisco Borges <f.borges at rug.nl> writes:

> Two pieces of advice:
>
> 1. Consider installing gtkpod: it does not look as good as amarok, but
>    it's totally dedicated to "ipod with linux". Amarok is supposed to
>    use their libgpod library but for some reason the amarok in ubuntu
>    does not depend on it.

>From what I've read, the changeover happens with Amarok 1.4.  The
current one in Ubuntu is 1.3.9.  I agree with you that gtkpod is
probably a better Ipod solution for now.  I always get corrupted ipod
database when using Amarok, but never had problems with gtkpod.

There is also ipodslave, which is new, and Amarok automatically uses if
installed, but I haven't really tested that.

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John L. Fjellstad
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