[ltp] In search of the perfect laptop combination

[Andrew Crawford]

FWIW ...

Tex9 started an opensource project named xtunes.  Apparently, it was an 
excellent player and music organization application for xwindows.  The 
Sourceforge project for it, xtunes.sourceforge.net is still there but, is 
just a pointer to the (defunct) Tex9 site.  Tex9 created a plug-in for 
xtunes that supported the iPod and were selling the plug-in.

Apple was unhappy with Tex9 using the xtunes name, since they felt it was 
too similar to iTunes.  Apple also felt that the xtunes interface had a 
look and feel too similar to iTunes.  Apple's lawyers sent the folks at 
Tex9 a letter on the matter.  Tex9 changed the name of the project to Sumi 
and the name of the plug-in to SumiPod, modified the interface, and 
indicated that this seemed to be okay with Apple.  Tex9 made one more 
release, after several months, including starting a new project on 
sourceforge (sumi.sourceforge.net.)

When I first looked, the Tex9 site was still up and had a link to 
Sourceforge to download Sumi.  However, the Sourceforge project had no 
downloads available and nothing in CVS.  Email to the support address on 
the Tex9 site bounced.  Mail to the sales address went through but, I never 
received any response.

I posted several inquiries to places like iPodlounge but, either no one had 
any idea what ultimately happened or they didn't care.

Based on skimming iPod forums, it sounds like most people using iPods under 
Linux are currently using ephPod under Wine.

I hope this isn't too off-topic.

Andrew Crawford
Andrew@Evermore.com

At 10:13 PM 7/17/2003 -0400, Andrew Biggadike wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 13:31, Ken Firestone wrote:
> > What software are you using to connect to the iPod?
>
>I am using a program called the ipod command line utility.  It once was
>available on www.tex9.com, but that domain seems to no longer exist.  I
>haven't tried the others mentioned - though I probably will now -
>because it works perfectly and I like the command line interface.
>
>I'm not sure what the status of that company or this project is, but I'd
>be happy to send you a copy if I got the okay from the author. (I think
>I actually paid $10 for it b/c at the time it was the only program I
>could find.)
>
>Like Steve, I use EphPod when I'm running Windows; however, the amount
>of time I'm in Windows is much less now-a-days.  I was always a bit
>weary of trying to use it with Wine.
>
>Andrew