Todd Zullinger wrote:
Bob Goodwin wrote:
Bear in mind that I have never used one of the devices and am not
familiar with their operation, they are mainly an annoyance since
it's hard to communicate with a kid with those things in his ears.
I sometimes use that feature to my advantage. I'd often rather have
music in my ears than listen to various people that want my attention.
It's mainly an interesting thing to examine and experiment with ...
And I would like to demonstrate that I can manipulate it without
Windows!
Definitely a nice thing. My ipod would be worthless if it required
windows. In fact, I feel bad for the folks stuck using itunes or
windows to manage their ipods. I have much greater control over the
device from linux than they do from windows.
The next logical step would be to transfer the iPod files from my
Linux computers to their XP box. Yet another project appears ...
As an idea for that, you could setup a music share (probably via SMB,
if you have a bunch of Windows systems) on your network so they could
browse and listen to the music located on your computer from any of
the other computers on the network.
You could also share the music via the DAAP protocol, which allows
other DAAP clients (like iTunes) to see your music and play it. There
are tools in Fedora to do DAAP easily either via a daemon or using a
number of music programs (banshee and rhythmbox both can do this IIRC,
as I'm sure a number of others can).
This opens a new field of interest for me! I installed Samba on this
box this afternoon. Next I need to do whatever is necessary to the
Windows XP box I will target. Windows is always a science project for
me but I will muddle through somehow. I have an Reilly's/Samba which
seems clear enough.
Since the twins came in from school I obtained an old iPod, it looks
like someone stepped on the display but other than that it appears to
function once I put some juice in the battery. The battery is one I
installed in it a year ago so that much is mine anyway! Now I have an
iPod to play with, a quantum step forward.
I will wait 'til tomorrow to mess with their computer. We have two XP
computers and a Mac PowerPro or some such plus a PowerBook G4 on our lan
in addition to my Linux boxes. They would all benefit from music files
available from one point.
Thanks.
BobG
