Well, I was an apple fan without owning any of their products. And then Sumana gifted me a shiny new generation iPod nano. And after long time, I booted my laptop in Windows to run iTunes. Downloaded a few songs, which worked fine, but soon realized this method is not scalable because everytime I want to put new songs, I must boot in windows. And there are songs in my Linux partition which Windows can't even see. I heard rhythmbox would do it for me, so I fired up. It did let me download songs, but when I disconnected, the iPod refused to play any. The disk usage would still show 5GB in use, but music menu will show `0 Songs'. I was on Fiesty and realized that rhythmbox would be too old to support new iPods. Anyways, I went back to windows but there was no way to `fix' the problem so had to format the iPod, losing all songs I downloaded to it. Later I upgraded to Gutsy Gibbon, and was hopeful that now I should be able to use with Linux. By now, I already have 900 songs, and `The Matrix' in there. Unfortunately, rhythmbox isn't ready still, and again it bricked the iPod. This time, before formatting, I tried hard to restore the iTunesDB, but no success. I had to format it again.When I am impressed by the iPod, my respect to Apple came down a lot. Those bastards are trying to keep 3rd party (read open source) softwares at bay to download music in the iPod by writing proprietary cryptographic hashes in the DB; thus making it unusable on platforms in which they don't offer iTunes. And as with any poorly designed secure system, it has already been reverse engineered. Though it didn't work for me yet.
Such things doesn't prevent piracy. They just pisses hackers off. And I am not drooling for an iPhone anymore.
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I'm a Linux user too. I also have a MacOSX system. I ripped all my CDs (450) to a file server and had > 30GB. I looked for an MP3 player that could hold all of it with room for expansion. Basically, the 80GB iPod was the cheapest choice. Plus it has the most accessories.
I formatted it FAT32 for Windows & tried Windows iTunes via VMware. I tried using my Mac but I only have USB 1.1 on it & it's too slow.
I tried GTKpod which works nicely, but didn't handle adding new MP3s/podcasts from my file server to the iPod.
I finally tried amarok. It works great. I run it on a Linux box that access my server. Any changes I make to the files get synced (not copied!) to the iPod.
I haven't tried rhythmbox but I don't need to now.
Oh - I listen to my music 99% via the iPod and almost never on the computer. Sometimes I do listen via my TiVo....
Welcome to the club :)
When i bought iPod video about 1.5 years back, I uploaded a bunch of songs to it (approx 5 gig).
After that, I kicked iTunes (it is such a bloatware!)
Since the songs I like are 'old' ones I hardly even consider the possibility of updating the db (and have not done it since).
I primarily use the iPod to just play the songs, and use it as a portable 30 gig harddisk :-)
I get the best of both worlds !
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Hello again,
just wanted to leave a note to tell you that I will be blogging from West Africa from now on..
Birdwatching here is fantastic, by the way..
Oh yes, the iPod..
I agree with almost everything you are saying, yet it is a great thingi to take along a lot of audio books to the middle of nowhere
The USP of Apple prods is the sleek designs.
Rest all is overpriced,overestimated,overhyped
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It's not just this shame, even CD/DVD burned on MAC OSX are not readable on Windows Machine,Although We can read the optical drive written on any Operating System on Mac Boxes, but still i don't write that i was fan of Apple although today i am big fan of Apple.
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