On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 18:25 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 17:08 -0800, Dean S. Messing wrote: > > I am thinking about buying a 160 GB iPod for my daughter for her > > approaching golden birthday (she's turning 18). > > > > I know _zero_ about iPods (or any other external device toys). > > > > My daughter is a budding classical concert pianist getting ready to go > > off to Music Conservatory. She wants to use the iPod for studying the > > various pieces of music she's working on. > > > > We have a large classical music library. Until now, I've ripped the > > individual pieces she's working on from the CDs onto our home > > computer. Then she uses Xmms to listen. With Xmms she can move back > > in a piece by small amounts, &c, for musical and stylistic analysis. > > > > I now want to get her an iPod and be able to _easily_ put this music > > onto it via Linux (we have only Linux machines.) > > > > Are there tools in Fedora 6 or 7 that allow this? As I say, I'm a > > genuine n00b here. What are the linux/iPod limitations, if any? If > > you are using a 160 GB iPod with Fedora, I'd like to hear about it. > ---- > There are a number of programs that can interact with an iPod BUT Apple > doesn't supply firmware updates for any OS other than Windows or > Macintosh. > > The 160 Gb is very new model (6 weeks or so), I have an 80 and can use > it with Linux. > > gtkpod, amarok both work with an iPod and I'm sure that there is other > software that can work with an iPod too. > > The bigger issue is that I very much prefer the 'AAC' format over the > mp3 format and that's been a two step process on Linux - rip first to > 'wav' and then convert to 'm4a' > > Apple's iTunes software handles that a bit more elegantly than anything > that I've been able to accomplish with Linux. > > Also, I have a lot of CD's (600+) including boxed sets and I still have > only filled my iPod with under 30 Gb of music so 160 Gb seems extreme > unless...you were going to do something like this (which seems ideal for > any musician)... > > http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/belkin-makes-ipod-into-recording-studio-226614.php > Amarok works very well with iPods. I use it with a 30GB video iPod and an iPod Touch. Try to get a Windows-compatible iPod. If you get a Mac-formatted iPod, you need a friend with a Mac to turn off the HFS+ journal or Amarok won't be able to read or write the playlists or sync it to the Amarok collections. You will probably also need the amarok-extras-nonfree RPM from livna to get MP4 and AAC playbacks from the iPod. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - Warning: You are logged into reality as the root user... - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
