[ltp] hooking up an ipod

[Brian Nelson]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:08:29PM -0400, Rei Shinozuka wrote:
> i have a ibm t23 (with firewire) running fc2.  
> i have a mini ipod.
> 
> can they make music together?
> 
> i googled linux and ipod and there's a bunch of information but several
> competing methods, some of which involve using HFS+ on linux, or reformatting
> the disk in the ipod to FAT and so on, some of which looks pretty old,
> and others which warn you that the ipod gets stuck and how to reformat it
> when it does.  scary.

If you have a windows box, you can have the Apple's software do the
conversion to FAT, which is probably less scary.

> has there emerged by now--the summer of 2004--a consensus on the best
> way to make the linux machine one's host for the ipod?

Consensus?  Nah...  gnupod works OK for me.  There's also gtkpod but I
haven't tried that yet.

> i do have 2 osx machines in the house, but one is my wife's and one
> is my kids and they won't give me a login.

Heh...

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