IPOD Shuffle in Ubuntu
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:03 am
I went out and bought a IPOD Shuffle last night (the 1giger 
) and was not sure what to expect upon plugging it into the USB port on my laptop for the first time. I had seen some post about gtkpod that was spouse to work with the shuffle in Linux so I decided to give it a try.
But first after pulling the shuffle out of the box I just plugged it straight into one of the USB ports in the back of my laptop. To my surprise Ubuntu automaticly detected it and mounted it up. I said cool! No need to mount it my self or anything. Clicking on the "Computer" icon I noticed that there was a new icon there called ipod double clicking on it took my right into the IPOD Shuffle. Once viewing the IPOD Shuffle I noticed there was no file system. After playing about for a bit I had transferred some pictures and files to it just to check it out. It works just like a USB flash drive!
Now I decided to compile gtkpod... After I fired it up I started to browse around all the menus in gtkpod and I noticed a option to create the IPOD file system. So I choose that and then looked back into my shuffle and there was some newly created folders. using gtkpod I was able to transfer over some TLLTS podcasts and some mp3's... After a few seconds the transfer was complete so I unplugged it and hit play.... AND IT WORKED!
I was very happy with the shuffle and the fact that I had it working in Linux with no trouble at all!
Just though I would share.
) and was not sure what to expect upon plugging it into the USB port on my laptop for the first time. I had seen some post about gtkpod that was spouse to work with the shuffle in Linux so I decided to give it a try. But first after pulling the shuffle out of the box I just plugged it straight into one of the USB ports in the back of my laptop. To my surprise Ubuntu automaticly detected it and mounted it up. I said cool! No need to mount it my self or anything. Clicking on the "Computer" icon I noticed that there was a new icon there called ipod double clicking on it took my right into the IPOD Shuffle. Once viewing the IPOD Shuffle I noticed there was no file system. After playing about for a bit I had transferred some pictures and files to it just to check it out. It works just like a USB flash drive!
Now I decided to compile gtkpod... After I fired it up I started to browse around all the menus in gtkpod and I noticed a option to create the IPOD file system. So I choose that and then looked back into my shuffle and there was some newly created folders. using gtkpod I was able to transfer over some TLLTS podcasts and some mp3's... After a few seconds the transfer was complete so I unplugged it and hit play.... AND IT WORKED!
I was very happy with the shuffle and the fact that I had it working in Linux with no trouble at all!
Just though I would share.
and they say linux has bad hardware support 