Ipod

[Ylan Segal]

Byron Poland wrote:
> You will be out of luck with any itunes music store purchased music
> for the most part.  there are tools in linux (pymusiqe and
> sharpmusique) that let you purchase music for the itunes store, but
> does not add the fairplay drm to the downloads.... however if you have
> an itunes account that has ever been used with itunes 4.8 (or maybe
> its 4.7) it won't work...
> 
> However If you've never used the later versions of itunes with your
> purchased music you may be use some of the fairtunes or justetunes
> tools to remove the drm, and the files will be playable under linux.

Removing the protection from the files is something I can work with. I
am not that concerned about the ability to continue buying music from
iTunes, but its nice to now it exists.

> 
> People will correct me If I'm off on any of the above...
> 
> I use banshee or gtkpod for syncing, and they work fine... no album
> art support for putting artwork on ipods though.

Art support is not important to me either. My iPod is the black and
white kind anyway.

Thanks for the comments,

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Ylan

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