I sold my soul the other weekend. I have been without a decent music player for a while and I seen the price of an iPod drop. I checked out the state of iPod Linux and thought that I might be able to get by. I have tried iTunes before when I won the iPod shuffle and wasn’t very happy with it. I was using a winamp plugin to put music on it.
The 80gb iPod video presents a different problem. How do I get games and video content onto the damn thing.
So I installed iTunes again. Put some music the old way. Turned off music sync.
Downloaded Happy Tree Friends videos and they look great.
I’ve got some linux pod casts happening and I thought all was great.
I looked through the menu items and found “Add folder to library”. I was intrigued. Looked it up in help and found that it stored a ‘pointer’ to the actual folder. Fantastic I thought. So I added my music collection.
Wrong.
Stupid thing goes and touches all of my files and makes some modifications to the headers.
I know have to change the files back so that my backup routine isn’t out of sync and work harder at getting linux on the thing.
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1. pimaster | December 11th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Or I could have taken logical approach and tried it on a smaller scale.
In my defence, I did try to get it running under VMWare, but I think I had some troubles with passing the USB connection through.
2. Gatesy | December 13th, 2006 at 12:30 am
I never liked the iTunes way much, either - especially the "keep my library organised" option; unless you’re starting from scratch, that’s a killer
3. Xavier | December 22nd, 2006 at 11:47 am
Have you tried RockBox? Not sure if they’ve got it running on the newest of new versions, but it was stable on the 5th gens.
4. pimaster | December 22nd, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Thanks for the tip. From the web site "Nano 2nd gen and 80GB Video 5.5th gen are not supported" so I’ll keep an eye on it.
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