Ipod support in Gutsy.

[Junin Toiro]

> You may be interested in taking a look at Banshee (http://banshee-project.org/Main_Page
> ), it's a GTK music management application similar to iTunes. More
> importantly, it supports iPod interoperability. Alternatively, Exaile (http://www.exaile.org/
> ) is another GTK application that may facilitate your requirements.
>

I've just tried both and here are my results: Since my iPod is a 6th gen
video Banshee is unable to read it and wants to rebuild the database. I
still want to be able to use iTunes as a fallback if I can't get video and
the like working so for now I can't test it any further because from
previous experience when you let it do that iTunes spits chips and you have
to restore the iPod.

Exaile on the other hand does pick it up but provides no functionality I can
see (with the ipod plugin enabled) that Rhythmbox doesn't out of the box so
I don't see much reason to switch seeing as I prefer Rhythmbox in this case.
(Banshee on the other hand I would switch for so guess I'll just have to
wait till it's updated for the new iPods).

All of the above seem to provide audio sync and podcasts but no video,
picture, contact or calender support.

What model iPod do you have? You could even take a look at an
> alternative firmware to replace the default Apple firmware comletely.
> There's an open source project known as Rockbox (http://
> www.rockbox.org/) which strives to provide an alternative firmware for
> various digital music players. I personally use it on my iPod Nano and
> find it fanastic (It's not without its flaws). The biggest advantage
> is that it doesn't require any one single application to copy and play
> music. Furthermore, it supports Ogg Vorbis and FLAC.


6th gen black 30g iPod. I've heard great things about rockbox but after
checking out the site it appears my iPod is too new so I guess I'm waiting
to try out that too.

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Sam Jackson / Nandemonai / Junin Toiro
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