iPod Nano

[Matt Price]

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, which lots of peoplerecommend
heartily.

matt


> Chris
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Matt Price
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