[Peripherals] iPod on an XO?

Michael Burns maburns at gmail.com
Wed Jan 2 16:44:49 EST 2008


At present, there is no easily installed iTunes-like activity that can
manage your music and properly sync your iPod. Banshee and Amarok are two
programs that run on Linux that can do this, but they have not been ported
to OLPC yet.

On Jan 2, 2008 1:41 PM, Ian Daniher <it.daniher at gmail.com> wrote:

> Patrik,
> I have successfully used my Ipod as a portable hard drive for use with the
> xo. Currently Linux applications lack support for the latest version of
> Ipod. It however may be feasible, in the future, to port a standard linux
> media program to the XO. Based on the limited space of the xo, a portable
> hard drive would be necessary.
> --Ian
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2008 4:23 PM, patrik <peripherals at lists.laptop.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > So Grandpa wants to give Daughter his iPod - is there much hope of
> > managing this on her XO?  If so, would it be useful/necessary to use an
> > external USB drive to store the audio files?
> >
> > A complicating factor would be my ignorance of Linux terminology. I'm a
> > long-time Mac user, which I'm guessing will be of little help here.  [Crying
> > or Very sad]
> >
> > TIA!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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