gtkpod - iPod recommendations requested

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Jens Cedlind wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> We are a 2 ipod family. Be aware that unless you are quite an expert 
>> with linux it is hard to set up the ipod immediately after purchase 
>> unless you use a windoz machine. My new 30G purchase recently would 
>> not even *run* at all on xp itunes unless I used the very latest itunes!
> 
> Odd, got a new iPod few weeks ago (G5, Video (not "G5.5")) and simply 
> set it up in Amarok, clicked the connect button, and Amarok said it 
> needed to be initialized and asked if I wanted to do so. Piece of cake.

Thanks, useful to know. I had read that the initialisation needed to 
be done a specific way, and had seen some very detailed write up about 
using only linux initially. Maybe yours was pre initialised in some way(?)

The ipod No1 in the family is windows, mine is No2 and will be linux 
but I would like to gain more knowledge of the consequences of 
occasionally using windows. For example the family (no1) itunes 
databse is large and I back it up over NFS between machines from its 
vfat partition. konquerer and nautilus seem to have differing abilty 
to handle the character set in this process, and I see some 
unrecognised characters. This might complicate serious use of the 
backup files in the event.

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ac