<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br><br>On 22 Apr 2009, at 07:17, Stephen Garton <<a href="mailto:sheepeatingtaz@sheepeatingtaz.co.uk">sheepeatingtaz@sheepeatingtaz.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Morning all,<br><br>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).<br> <br>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!)<br><br>So far I have tried:<br><br>Rhythmbox - had to copy and paste files from my collection to the ipod<br> Banshee - no 'devices' section, and locked up when I tried to exit<br>Exaile - same as rhythmbox<br>gtkpod - couldn't work out how to configure<br>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.<br> <br>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).<br> <br>Thanks in advance,<br><br clear="all">Steve Garton<br><a href="http://sheepeatingtaz.co.uk">sheepeatingtaz.co.uk</a></div></blockquote><br><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Harry Rickards</div></body></html>