[ubuntu-uk] Software Media Player Recommendations (iPod sync)

[Harry Rickards]

On 22 Apr 2009, at 07:17, Stephen Garton <sheepeatingtaz at 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
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