iPod Nano

[JoeHill]

Chris Aitken wrote: 

> 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

Rockbox runs on the device itself, it replaces the firmware from Apple. In any
case, it's not compatible with the latest Classics/Nanos.

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