iPod Nano

[JoeHill]

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, which lots of peoplerecommend
> heartily.

Actually, I've been meaning to ask about this as well. I know that the iPods
work great under Linux, but what about an iPod Video? Do the apps for managing
an iPod also handle transferring mp4 files? I don't see anything in either
gtkpod or yamipod for that.

-- 
JoeHill
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