switching from win to ubuntu

[Chris McDonough]

FWIW, you may want to consider a Rio Karma instead of an iPod if you're
mostly going to be using it with Linux.  The Windows program is pretty
nice and there's apparently a Java application that can run under Linux
to do synchronization.

It doesn't play AAC files, though.  This isn't a big deal for me, as I
have msotly mp3s and oggs.  OTOH, it does do "gapless" playback (think
about listening to the last half of Abbey Road and hearing pauses
between each song, that's what it *doesn't* do).  The iPod apparently
doesn't have this.

Of course you miss out on iTunes, but there's always allofmp3.com! ;-)

- C


On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 20:54, Aroon Pahwa wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:53:23 -0400, Brett K
> <ubuntu-users at valx.mailshell.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 October 2004 at 11:38-0400, speel one wrote:
> > 
> > > 2.i plan on getting an ipod soon and with itunes it keeps
> > > everything organised and what not and i wanna know if there
> > > is somthing like that on linux
> > 
> > I'm on OS X and have been using iTunes and an iPod for years.
> > Ubuntu installs Rhythmbox by default. It is _very_ much like
> > iTunes in its interface design and music organization (so much
> > so that I fear it will have a problem once Apple's iTunes
> > interface patent goes through).
> > 
> > I share my iTunes Music Library through an NFS share so I can
> > listen to it on my Ubuntu machine. But, to my knowledge, you
> > can't sync an iPod with Rhythmbox. I suppose you could just
> > mount it as a hard drive and copy all your music back and
> > forth. If you buy music from the iTunes Music Store, you won't
> > be able to play it in Rhythmbox (unless you re-encode it or
> > break the DRM on it).
> > 
> > Since, in my opinion, Apple has the best digital music solution
> > right now between iTunes, iPod, and the iTunes Music Store. I
> > would like to see them make it Linux compatible so it is at
> > least an option.
> > 
> > I'm sure there are many who disagree with Apple's music
> > policies, but I'm just giving the state of affairs--don't shoot
> > the messenger. :-)
> > 
> > Brett
> > 
> 
> heres a few links about using an ipod with linux:
> 
> http://neuron.com/~jason/ipod.html
> http://people.csail.mit.edu/people/adonovan/hacks/ipod.html
> 
> search for "ipod linux" at google and you get a bunch of useful
> results.  also, you can always lurk around the ipodlounge.com forums
> and im sure you'll find other linux users.
> 
> aroon pahwa
> viperstyx at gmail.com