I’m listening to my new iPod Shuffle. :) I ordered it a few days ago and it came today. I just finished filling it with songs and I’ve since been treated to Tom Petty, Placebo, Deftones, and now The Crystal Method; a nice mix. Ooh, and here’s Mary Jane’s Last Dance by Tom Petty. I’m quite tickled by it, especially its tiny size. I hooked it up to Todd’s Powerbook initially to get it formatted correctly, then I was able to hook it up to my Ubuntu box, install gtkpod, and use Amarok to put the music I wanted on it. It was very easy: Ubuntu recognized it and mounted it automatically. I just had to tell Amarok that it had been mounted at /media/ipod and I was good to go. Adding music to it via Amarok was as simple as dragging selected songs from my playlist into the iPod display in the sidebar. I could remove them by right-clicking them.
Three till Seven
Programming, espresso, and grumbling.
Wow, that thing is tiny!
I just use gtkpod for transferring music between my iPod and computer (because you know I hate Amarok!). Nice thing about not having to use the iTunes player is that you can actually download music from your iPod back to your computer :D Sucks to be a Windows or Mac user!
I’m jelouse that you got your Shuffle to work in Ubuntu. I got a Gen 1 Shuffle over the summer from my bank and for some reason Ubuntu only seems to think that it’s a flash drive……
Is there something screwy going on with your comments? When you have one, it says “no comments”, but when you have 2, it says “1 comment”.
Could you explain the steps needed to mount the Shuffle on the Linux box? I’m having trouble getting mine to mount on my Debian box (running 2.6.18). It’s occasionally recognized but then a USB disconnect kicks it off.
Mark: I’m using Ubuntu, and all I did was plug the Shuffle in. Ubuntu recognized it and I saw a little iPod icon show up on the Desktop. You might look into automounting.
I also use gtkpod, but whenever i play a file, I simply made gtkpod execute (not amarok), Never had any success in getting amarok to play m4a (the iTunes formatted song) files for that matter. Any hints on that? :P What extra condecs did ya install?
I mean I make VLC execute
I don’t know about getting M4A files to play in Linux because I never use them. I stick to formats like MP3 (everything plays it) and OGG (Linux apps at least play it, and it’s of better quality than MP3). I followed the iPod tutorial on the Ubuntu Forums.