2009/9/14 Sean Gibbins <sean@???>
> Hi All,
>
> Last night a friend, having upgraded to the latest and greatest, gave me
> his 'old' iPods, which my twins snatched from me the moment I stepped
> through the door!
>
> Since we're almost entirely an Ubuntu shop here, I was wondering what
> the best options are for using them with the same? I know for a fact
> that my daughter Ellen wants to use her Ubuntu laptop rather than the
> shared Windows machine we have here, since she is likely to be going off
> to Uni next year, as indeed is her brother Sam.
>
> A quick google before I wrote this didn't turn up anything that was
> instantly inspiring, so I am wondering what folks here use, and what
> limitations there are, if any?
>
> The iPods in question are a 32GB 'Touch' and a 120GB 'Classic'.
>
> Sean
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Songbird (
http://getsongbird.com/) is quite a nice little tool for keeping
your iPod in sync under Linux, Windows and OSX. The only catch being that
if the iPod is formatted as HFSPlus (i.e. formatted on a Mac) you need to
re-format it to HFS.
ta
john
