David Latham

My iPod Nano 8gb. ( not the fancy new one with the video ) works perfectly well inside fedora so long as you bear in mind the following basic points: The thing doesn't play ogg files so if you have any of those on your system, they can not be synced. Depending on the application you use, you end up with podcasts being saved under music. Sometimes you get images sometimes you don't. Albums with Various Artists do not appear under compilations. Instead your Artists menu shows a long list of artists most of which only have one track. Applications that ship with fedora and support the iPod: gtk-pod ( manage your ipod ) gpodder ( download podcasts etc - these actually go into the podcasts menu on the device. ) Amarok Rythmbox Other music applications I have played with that support the iPod: Songbird 2 I should not here that once again, I have found that Amarok 1.4 is still the best player out there. I had to install it using the F11 binaries ( just search for them on google ) and...

I have had my iPod 8gb Nano ( Video ) for about 4 months now and I have been having heaps of fun with it. I know it's not cool like an iPod Touch or iPhone but it is still plenty powerful. I have tried using it with Linux and although it is supported in Amarok ( I am still on Amarok 1.4 due to lack of Fedora packages for the new version which actually has replay-gain for Xine included ) I have found that the support for pod casts is a little limited. For example: I like to download all the pod casts in a feed at once so that I can catch up to the current feed. So I stick with iTunes. This means sticking with a windows pc or if you are lucky to own one, a mac. Initially I spent heaps of time building the perfect play list on my iTunes and moving that over to the iPod. This was fun but only for a short while. The main problem being that no matter how many weeks of music you have on your iPod, you still end up with the feeling that you have heard it all before. I was struck by t...