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ipod nano

13 Oct 2005

Amanda got an iPod Nano for her birthday, since she has some mindnumbingly boring parts of her job. It was ostensibly a birthday present from me, except that she paid for it. We have .. creative .. finances.

Anyways, it is awesome. I am jealous. Getting it working in Linux was no sweat. gtkpod seems to work fine, although I did have to run iTunes in windows first to “prime” the itunes database on it – I got some error from gtkpod trying to create the directories. But after that it works fine. The ipod itself is just automounted via autofs, and the ipod itself is just driven by usb-storage.

Apple has ingratiated itself with me for making the ipod just be USB mass storage. I once bought a 64M Rio mp3 player, and the process for getting music on/off it in Linux was so laborious as to be pointless.

Comments

scott — October 14, 2005 at 14:32 · reply

Don’t you read banner ads? The internet is giving those things away for free! FREE!

cwage — October 14, 2005 at 15:21 · reply

“I signed up for freeipods.com and all I got was this lousy blockbusteronline subscription.”

Amanda — October 14, 2005 at 16:07 · reply

Hi Scott! Please remember not to blow off my birthday party tomorrow. Thanks!

a-frame — October 23, 2005 at 04:59 · reply

Ok, ok, so I may be the computer-dumbest guy who reads about your quietlife, but I have to ask, why is this a good thing to do? And by ‘this’, I mean run your ipod nano with linux? This is not the indignant tone of the technologically hesitant, i.e., ‘why would you do *THAT*?’, but the actual foggy-minded question, ‘um, why would you do that?” do you save space for more songs, or are you just avoiding windows crashes? or is it just cuz why not?

cwage — October 23, 2005 at 05:02 · reply

No no.. it’s not linux on the actual ipod.. But our PC at home runs Linux, so it was just a matter of getting the ipod to work with my ghetto PC running Linux.. which as it turns out luckily was pretty easy.

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