[KLUG Members] iPod & Linux.

[adam at morrison-ind.com]

> The first thing I did was plug my Nano into a USB2 port on my SuSE 10.0
> desktop.  Immediately it started a program named "banshee".  It knew it
> was an iPod and ask me to name my Nano.
> I then imported some mp3 files into my local banshee music area.  Next I
> pressed the button to sync with the iPod, which it did, and the iPod now
> plays the mp3 files perfectly!  Very slick!  Thought I'd share ...  :-)

Nice.

I don't know anything about iPods.  Do they only play MP3s?  I've encoded most
of my stuff in ogg so I don't have to putter around trying to get MP3s 
to play (I don't buy MP3s I just rip what I buy on media).  And I've 
been too lazy to
get around to buying a player yet.

> I've heard from someone else that this did NOT work under SuSE 9.3, and
> earlier versions.  I also saw there are some updates to banshee for SuSE
> 10.0 in the last couple days which is supposed to fix a occasional crash
> in the GUI (which I've seen) and support the latest version of iTunes.
> Sweet!!!  :-)

Very cool.