Re: o/t ipod

[shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 8:24 AM, shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 26, 2010 7:57 AM, "Ted Wager" <ted@trufflesdad.plus.com> wrote:
>>
>> My son has bought me an ipodtouch for Xmas..Anyone tell me how I can
>> transfer the music files on his ipod to mine ?..I only have Linux on my
>> machines but can get access to a Winbox at a neighbours...
>>
>>
>
> IIRC, there is no real good answer for linux. I think rythmbox has some
> capabilities (that can be enabled or configured). You could also jailbreak
> it and just scp stuff over (though you might need to hack around with plist
> xml files). Itunes on windows is an option (though I'm not sure how to
> handle account security or drm issues here). Also, if you go that route,
> you're not really going to be able to keep your music synced up. If your
> computer can handle it, you might research into running itunes inside of a
> windows virtual box session.
>

fyi, i was wrong - there is a 'real good answer for linux'. i just had
a friend with an iphone plug into a straight ubuntu 10.10 computer
with rythmbox and it asked if i wanted to open it with rythmbox and we
uploaded a song. i think the device had to rebuild the song library
after because it took a minute to load up the player, but nothing was
lost and it was really only a minute or so for 15 gigs of music.