iPod Nano

Chris Aitken chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org
Sun Nov 4 00:38:23 UTC 2007


Matt Price wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 09:10 -0400, Chris Aitken wrote:
>   
>> For Christmas, my daughter is ready for something a little more 
>> sophisticated than Bratz. I have my eye on the iPod Nano. My only 
>> "experiences" with .mp3 files are ripping (from CDs, not Internet) .ogg 
>> files and burning them to CDs, and a year or so ago installing limewire 
>> only to have it fail on boot. I want to know if any of you have had luck 
>> downloading .mp3 files from the Internet and getting them onto an iPod. 
>> I don't want to buy this thing only to have it go the way 
>> Starcraft-on-linux did for me (i.e unsuccessful even with several 
>> talented people helping me).  This is a little more important because 
>> I'll be dropping a couple hundred bucks on it /before/ I know it works. 
>> I have a P733 with USB port.
>>
>>     
> amarok manages my ipod unproblematically -- not a nano, but i believe
> that most of the ipods handle the same way.  if the ipod software gives
> you trouble, there's always Rockbox, 
[root at p733 chris]# yum install rockbox
livna                     100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    
00:00    
fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    
00:00    
primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 3.8 MB    
02:45    
updates                   100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    
00:00    
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package rockbox available.
Nothing to do

> which lots of peoplerecommend
> heartily.
>
> matt
>
>
>   
>> Chris

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