A person was considering getting me an iPod Touch for Christmas.  My
uncle has one, so I played with it a bit yesterday.  I like the screen
and responsiveness.  How's its usability with Linux?  Can I transfer
movies, images, programs, and music to it?  I'm not concerned about
contacts or URLs.

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Hactar wrote:

> How's its usability with Linux?
you can use foola, Amarok, gtkpod for your iPod.
Works fine for me
regards,

Gerhard

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Gerhard Maerker wrote:
> Hactar wrote:
>> How's its usability with Linux?
> 
> you can use foola, Amarok, gtkpod for your iPod.
> Works fine for me

I use GTKpod for a Shuffle I got as a gift.  When I was researching if I 
could use it with Linux, I discovered that some Apple devices are 
formatted as VFAT and some are formatted as Apple File System (or 
whatever it's called).  If you get one that's formatted as Apple, then 
you have to reinitialize it on a Windows system with iTunes to format it 
as VFAT, with all the directories, etc., that it needs.  I don't know if 
that caution would apply to the Touch or not.

Otherwise an iPod just looks like a USB flash drive to whatever software 
you use to manage it on Linux.  The Shuffle looks like a USB floppy 
rather than a USB HD, though.  That threw me for a while.  YMMV

In article <FtPal.13034$yr3.4309@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com>,
Allen Kistler  <ackistler@oohay.moc> wrote:
> Gerhard Maerker wrote:
> > Hactar wrote:
> >> How's its usability with Linux?
> > 
> > you can use foola, Amarok, gtkpod for your iPod.
> > Works fine for me
> 
> I use GTKpod for a Shuffle I got as a gift.  When I was researching if I 
> could use it with Linux, I discovered that some Apple devices are 
> formatted as VFAT and some are formatted as Apple File System (or 
> whatever it's called).  If you get one that's formatted as Apple, then 
> you have to reinitialize it on a Windows system with iTunes to format it 
> as VFAT, with all the directories, etc., that it needs.  I don't know if 
> that caution would apply to the Touch or not.
> 
> Otherwise an iPod just looks like a USB flash drive to whatever software 
> you use to manage it on Linux.  The Shuffle looks like a USB floppy 
> rather than a USB HD, though.  That threw me for a while.  YMMV

Noted, thanks.  With subdirectories for MP3s, movies, pictures, etc.?

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Hactar wrote:
> In article <FtPal.13034$yr3.4309@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com>,
> Allen Kistler  <ackistler@oohay.moc> wrote:
>> Gerhard Maerker wrote:
>>> Hactar wrote:
>>>> How's its usability with Linux?
>>> you can use foola, Amarok, gtkpod for your iPod.
>>> Works fine for me
>> I use GTKpod for a Shuffle I got as a gift.  When I was researching if I 
>> could use it with Linux, I discovered that some Apple devices are 
>> formatted as VFAT and some are formatted as Apple File System (or 
>> whatever it's called).  If you get one that's formatted as Apple, then 
>> you have to reinitialize it on a Windows system with iTunes to format it 
>> as VFAT, with all the directories, etc., that it needs.  I don't know if 
>> that caution would apply to the Touch or not.
>>
>> Otherwise an iPod just looks like a USB flash drive to whatever software 
>> you use to manage it on Linux.  The Shuffle looks like a USB floppy 
>> rather than a USB HD, though.  That threw me for a while.  YMMV
> 
> Noted, thanks.  With subdirectories for MP3s, movies, pictures, etc.?

Here's what's on my Shuffle.

../iPod_Control
../iPod_Control/iTunes
../iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesControl
../iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB
../iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB.ext
../iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesPlaylists
../iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesPrefs
../iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesPState
../iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesSD
../iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesStats
../iPod_Control/Music

iTunesDB.ext is a text file.
iTunesPlaylists is unknown.  (The Shuffle doesn't support playlists.)
The rest are binary files.

Music is a directory that has subdirectories named Fnn (displayed as fnn 
by ls), where nn is 00, 01, 02, etc., which contain my mp3s.  (The 
Shuffle only does music.)

HTH

Gerhard Maerker wrote:
> Hactar wrote:
> 
>> How's its usability with Linux?
> you can use foola, Amarok, gtkpod for your iPod.
> Works fine for me

Are you talking from experience? With an iPod Touch, as the OP asked?

In article <nqRal.1954$FM6.657@flpi143.ffdc.sbc.com>,
Allen Kistler  <ackistler@oohay.moc> wrote:
> Hactar wrote:
> > In article <FtPal.13034$yr3.4309@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com>,
> > Allen Kistler  <ackistler@oohay.moc> wrote:
> >> Gerhard Maerker wrote:
> >>> Hactar wrote:
> >>>> How's its usability with Linux?
> >>> you can use foola, Amarok, gtkpod for your iPod.
> >>> Works fine for me
> >> I use GTKpod for a Shuffle I got as a gift.  When I was researching if I 
> >> could use it with Linux, I discovered that some Apple devices are 
> >> formatted as VFAT and some are formatted as Apple File System (or 
> >> whatever it's called).  If you get one that's formatted as Apple, then 
> >> you have to reinitialize it on a Windows system with iTunes to format it 
> >> as VFAT, with all the directories, etc., that it needs.  I don't know if 
> >> that caution would apply to the Touch or not.
> >>
> >> Otherwise an iPod just looks like a USB flash drive to whatever software 
> >> you use to manage it on Linux.  The Shuffle looks like a USB floppy 
> >> rather than a USB HD, though.  That threw me for a while.  YMMV
> > 
> > Noted, thanks.  With subdirectories for MP3s, movies, pictures, etc.?
> 
> Here's what's on my Shuffle.
> 
> ./iPod_Control
> ./iPod_Control/iTunes
> ./iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesControl
> ./iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB
> ./iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesDB.ext
> ./iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesPlaylists
> ./iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesPrefs
> ./iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesPState
> ./iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesSD
> ./iPod_Control/iTunes/iTunesStats
> ./iPod_Control/Music
> 
> iTunesDB.ext is a text file.
> iTunesPlaylists is unknown.  (The Shuffle doesn't support playlists.)
> The rest are binary files.
> 
> Music is a directory that has subdirectories named Fnn (displayed as fnn 
> by ls), where nn is 00, 01, 02, etc., which contain my mp3s.  (The 
> Shuffle only does music.)

Do iPods have removable storage?  If you buy a 2 GiB iPod Foo, then
replace the card with an 8 GiB card, is what you get identical to what's
sold as an "8 GiB iPod Foo"?

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