<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Matthew Nuzum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org">newz@bearfruit.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>It appears to be easier to make an ipod work with other software than<br>
to make another mp3 player work with itunes.<br></blockquote><div><br>I have an iPod Video (30GB, 5th generation), but I run rockbox as an alternative firmware. This has the advantages of playing more formats (ogg, flac) and presenting as a simple USB mass storage device rather than using the proprietary iPod DB format. Also, rockbox is open source, so I can (and do) modify it in minor ways to better suit my needs. Rockbox recently added support for running Lua scripts on the device, which is something I mean to play with. <a href="http://rockbox.org">http://rockbox.org</a><br>
<br>Although I have never needed it, rockbox is typically installed in a dual boot configuration, such that you can run the original firmware by holding a button (menu?) when the bootloader runs.<br><br>I dislike iTunes, instead preferring Amarok 1.4 (the 2.x series that ships with KDE4 is IMHO not ready for prime time.) For *buntu people, you can get a Jaunty package of amarok1.4 from this guy's PPA (<a href="https://edge.launchpad.net/~bogdanb/+archive/amarok14/">https://edge.launchpad.net/~bogdanb/+archive/amarok14/</a>).<br>
</div></div><br>- Nathan<br><br>