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Sorry if I am too late. I once tried to connect a friend´s ipod to rhythmbox on Debian Lenny. The behavior was really buggy. I managed to download only some of the songs to the computer. And after unmounting, the ipod was showing as empty. Even though when remounted to the computer, rhythmbox was showing all music library. I didn´t manage to restore the ipod to its original state but then I was told that with some windows software, the ipod recovered, showing the music library, and without any data loss. I would be careful... On 29/12/2010 9:00 a.m., shawn wilson wrote: 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. |