iPod Nano

[Chris Gow]

On Tuesday 23 October 2007 12:10:57 JoeHill 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, 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.

I've used amarok to transfer mp4 files. IIRC, amarok uses gtkpod as it's ipod 
library, so it should work.

-- chris
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