Re: [Hampshire] [OT]ish ipod software

When I had an ipod, I used songbird on Linux; it works well.

2010/1/12 Pierre Cazenave <pwcazenave@???>

> On 10/01/2010 20:22, Rob Malpass wrote:
> > Hi all
> > Do any of us have ipods? If so, has anyone found any decent music
> > library software for them?
> > I migrated from a 20Gb IRiver to an 80Gb Apple ipod last year and in
> > that time my 8500 40 odd Gb library has caused me no end of problems
> > with itunes running under windows. This gives me 2 options:
> > 1) The baby and the bathwater - get a new mp3 player and say farewell to
> > apple and M$. In theory (cash permitting) I have no problem with this
> but...
> > 2) I quite like the ipod itself (touch wood) I've had very little
> > trouble with it. It's the software that's the problem. For example, you
> > would think "import library" would be a pretty simple thing. In my case,
> > for no apparent reason, it stops at 3300 songs.
> > So if anyone knows of any better software - open source, bleeding edge,
> > Linux or Windows - I'm not too worried - I just want it to do what
> > itunes is supposed to do (which might be a pipe dream as I suspect the
> > ipod is close source under the bonnet) - I'd love to hear from you.
> > Cheers
> > Rob
> >
>
> I found Songbird [0] and its iPod plugin [1] seem to work pretty well on
> XP with my 2nd Gen Nano. I'm not sure what the status of Songbird is on
> Linux, or if the plugin would work, but given Songbird sort of "just
> Firefox" with the ability to play music, then I don't see any reason it
> wouldn't work on Linux. There is a Linux download for 32 or 64 bit
> versions, so presumably it's OK...
>
> Pierre
>
> [0] http://getsongbird.com/
> [1] http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/12
>
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