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Actually, I suppose it's an iTunes annoyance. I'm sure quicktime is the bee's knees on the fruity computers, but it's always sucked rocks on Windows. I've yet to find any commercial product that gets a Windows PC more bent than the resource hogging, alien cobbled crap known as quicktime. Sadly, iTunes uses quicktime, so it's also fruit feces.
One solution offered itself up a few months ago. Winamp, the venerable but still viable music player for Windows has an iPod plugin. I don't intend to download iTunes. They're rife with DRM and I hate that, but that's another rant. More download sources are popping up, and they use DRM-free mp3s, some even use ogg. iTunes has left the PC.
If you just use winamp as your primary music manager, you're probably fine. I used it for months without any problems. Then I discovered another toy, GNUpod.
GNUpod is a collection of perl scrips that lets me move stuff to my iPod without mucking about with a GUI that won't show me the files I want, anyway. It's not real user friendly, but if you like Linux and the command line, it's a dream come true.
Here's a brief example of my perly happiness: find /mnt/tunes -ctime -3 -name *.mp3 -exec gnupod_addsong.pl -m /mnt/ipod {} \; If that's Greek to you, fear not; it's actually geek.
Alas, winamp doesn't like the state that GNUpod leaves the iPod in. The iPod itself has no problems and happily plays away. However, winamp has corrupted the TunesDB file twice now, leaving me without tunes for the long drive home.
So, now I know and I offer the warning. Winamp and GNUpod are not friends!
I'm also strongly considering writing a GUI for GNUpod that will hook into external players. I've needed a decent ID3v2 cataloger for a bit, and they all have quirks I don't like. I think it's time to write something I like for my toys. I've been meaning to learn Mono and GTK...
One solution offered itself up a few months ago. Winamp, the venerable but still viable music player for Windows has an iPod plugin. I don't intend to download iTunes. They're rife with DRM and I hate that, but that's another rant. More download sources are popping up, and they use DRM-free mp3s, some even use ogg. iTunes has left the PC.
If you just use winamp as your primary music manager, you're probably fine. I used it for months without any problems. Then I discovered another toy, GNUpod.
GNUpod is a collection of perl scrips that lets me move stuff to my iPod without mucking about with a GUI that won't show me the files I want, anyway. It's not real user friendly, but if you like Linux and the command line, it's a dream come true.
Here's a brief example of my perly happiness: find /mnt/tunes -ctime -3 -name *.mp3 -exec gnupod_addsong.pl -m /mnt/ipod {} \; If that's Greek to you, fear not; it's actually geek.
Alas, winamp doesn't like the state that GNUpod leaves the iPod in. The iPod itself has no problems and happily plays away. However, winamp has corrupted the TunesDB file twice now, leaving me without tunes for the long drive home.
So, now I know and I offer the warning. Winamp and GNUpod are not friends!
I'm also strongly considering writing a GUI for GNUpod that will hook into external players. I've needed a decent ID3v2 cataloger for a bit, and they all have quirks I don't like. I think it's time to write something I like for my toys. I've been meaning to learn Mono and GTK...