[Tfug] iPods

[Stott, Will]

In the end, you will fall to the dark side...

Give in, and save your self the pain.

Will


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From: tfug-bounces at tfug.org <tfug-bounces at tfug.org>
To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Sun Aug 30 14:43:18 2009
Subject: [Tfug] iPods

Hi,

I've been using an iPod shuffle (?) for my daily walks.
It's nice and tiny.  No display to deal with (I'm
*walking*, not "picking out musical selections!).
Lightweight so I can just set it on my shoulder under 
my shirt (in case I don't have a shirt pocket).

*And*, its easy to manage:  copy files onto it
as a disk drive, etc.  I think it holds about 5 or
10 albums (depending on bit rate) which is fine
as an album (start to finish) tends to take just about
as much time as one of my walks (30 - 40 minutes).
As such, I can listen to everything on the device
in about a week (two walks per day) without feeling
like I am listening to the same music over and over 
again...

I've now got an old iPod "mini" that I'm considering
using (though it is considerably larger and heavier so
it might not fit the bill... I guess the new nano's
are probably a better choice).

But, I despise iTunes (== evil).  And, the mini is
so much larger than the shuffle (capacity wise) that I
will need a more sophisticated way of managing the music
on it.

So, I was going to hack together a little application
to reside *on* the iPod that I can "run from DOS" to
massage my music collection.  A mini-iTunes, so to
speak (though in a few dozen KB instead of a few dozen
MB!).

(whew)  With all that as background, does anyone know if
the larger iPods (larger than the shuffle, that is) can
be made to look like a dumb disk ("mass storage device")?
Or, is this something that just works with the shuffle's?


      

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