Recommendation -- iPod?

[Fred Roller]

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 09:01 +0000, Mark C. Miller wrote:
> My current MP3 player has gone to the great tech yard in the sky.  I'm 
> thinking of joining the rest of the world [apparently] and getting an 
> iPod.
> 
> I'm running Ubuntu 9.04.  My concern is whether, or how well, the two 
> functions of charging the device and managing the music work on Ubuntu.  
> It seems charging should be no problem -- a USB port is a USB port -- but 
> transferring songs from the hard to disk to the iPod, building and 
> managing playlists are important.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advise you have for me.
> 
> mcm
> 
> -- 
> Mark C. Miller
> 
> 

A friend of mine switched to Ipod and uses Ubuntu as well.  He found and
uses Songbird:
	http://getsongbird.com/

It's open source and given how ... particular, he is about his software
I am pretty sure it will work fine.  I did download and install it to
check it out.  The installation is easy, untar and run from the
directory.  Good hunting.
-- 
Fred R.
www.fwrgallery.com

"Life is like Linux - simple; if you are fighting it, you are doing
something wrong."