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This article shows how you can use an iPod on a Linux desktop with Songbird 0.3. It covers how you can upload MP3 files from your desktop to your iPod, download MP3 files from your iPod to your desktop, and how you can delete files on the iPod. Normally, Apple's iTunes software is needed to manage an iPod, but iTunes is not available for Linux. Fortunately, there are Linux alternatives such as Songbird that can handle the task.
This article shows how you can use an iPod on a Linux desktop with Songbird 0.3. It covers how you can upload MP3 files from your desktop to your iPod, download MP3 files from your iPod to your desktop, and how you can delete files on the iPod. Normally, Apple's iTunes software is needed to manage an iPod, but iTunes is not available for Linux. Fortunately, there are Linux alternatives such as Songbird that can handle the task.
For me, amarok is much nicer than itunes for managing the ipod. Itunes does have the convenient access to itms, but since amarok is much more convenient in every other respect, I can live without itms, because I either rip my own CDs, or buy mp3s from amazon.com or other linux-friendly vendors.
I mention amarok because I'm a kde guy - if you're a gnome guy, you'd probably want to use banshee; I don't have a lot of experience with banshee but it seems to be gnome's answer to kde's amarok.
This doesn't solve the proprietary problem, but I installed iTunes on my daughter's Dell Linux laptop for her. It took a couple of tries to get it working correctly, and it's not the newest version, but it works.
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Which app do you think I should use? I also use part of my iPod as a secondary data backup drive. Can I continue to do that with any of these apps?