[Discuss] MP3 Players

[Steven Kurylo]

> As far as I know, you can not simply copy MP3s to an iPod and have them play. You
> need some software that can copy the files to the iPod in the manner the
> iPod expects.

I've used several Ipods with amarok.  I just drag my music to the ipod
and hit sync.  It does build a index on the ipod (there are various
command line tools to do it as well).

I often copy my music off my ipod with a simple find /ipod -name *mp3
-exec cp {} ./

The music is not "hidden" in any way.  What it does do is give all the
mp3's a fixed length file name and limits the amount of files per
directory.  I've even connected my ipod to a friends windows computer
and copied the music to from the ipod.

Once I used a friend's itunes and filled my ipod with mp3s.  I took it
home and copied the music to my computer without issues.  There are
various programs to rename the mp3 based on the ID3 tag.

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Steven Kurylo