[Tfug] iPods

[Bexley Hall]

Hi Jeff,

--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Jeff Breadner <jeff at breadner.ca> wrote:

> I'm jumping into this conversation late (I didn't read any
> of the earlier posts), but this caught my eye. 
> There is a tool called gtkpod that will let you load your
> iPod from Linux.  You have to hack it a little (edit a
> text file on the iPod, and put in a string captured from
> some other utility) but it will let you upload songs, it has
> functionality to upload photos but I rarely get this to work
> on my 3G Nano. Uploading video works fine.  There's
> other versions of gtkpod that have built-in support for the
> AAC codec I think.

Yes, but gtkpod means you need to have a UN*X box to run on
and it (gtkpod) is pretty bulky -- not the sort of thing you
would want to install *on* your iPod.  That's the goal of
this exercise:  to be able to tinker with your iPod without
having to have iTunes -- or, gtkpod -- available (i.e.,
imagine using a "foreign" computer where you don't have
any control over what is on the computer)