On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 08:35 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > Hello All, > > I got an iPod mini for my birthday. After installing iTunes software > on Windows and loading/playing some songs, I rebooted into FC4 and was > surprised to find an iPod icon on my gnome desktop. FC4 seems to treat > the iPod as just another USB hard drive. From the icon I was able to > drill down through several layers of folders to files that seem to > contain songs in Apple's m4a format although, of course, the iPod's > database structure wasn't quite as transparent. But in Windows it takes > real labor to see any structure at all! > I was expecting to have to do a lot to get this far towards using my > iPod with FC4 rather than with Windows. But people "out there" seem to > have already been working on this. Sometimes the scope of Linux as a > collaborative project is amazing. > My question: is there an iPod software interface like iTunes that works > well on FC4, or at least a package that can play (or convert) m4a files? ---- depending upon the repositories you are using, the following will work. iPod yum install gtkpod m4a yum install xmms-aac Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
