[iyonix-support] Re: iPod
- From: Kade Hansson <kade.hansson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:00:00 +1100
Chris F wrote:
I would want to play music with it and use it to store pictures so I
would be looking at a 30g one I suppose. Presently I use a Median
Pocket PC and transfer to it is easy with the SD card loaded from a
card reader attached to the USB port. Well as long as the files are
slashed and tagged.
That's the biggest difference with the iPod compared with other players-
it's not enough to just copy the files to get the iPod to be able to
actually play them. The XML file which contains the music catalogue
needs to be updated in tandem. I think it's the same deal with photos,
if you actually want to look at them on the iPod, but don't quote me on
that. My sister has a nano, and we use iTunes on a Mac to do all the
photo and song syncing.
Unfortunately, the nano is 4GB, so RISC OS won't touch it. The best I
managed was to give her the ability to charge it through the Iyonix USB
ports. You'd definitely be out of luck with a 30GB model. Sorry. You'd
be in the same boat with any other music player of this size, however:
the 2GB limit applies to all USB SCSI devices which need to be read by
foreign systems (i.e. that use FAT format.) See the earlier thread on
the topic of "2nd harddrive problems" for the gory details.
I have just been watching Click on BBC news 24 and the subject was the
way apple encodes its itunes. I was thinking that maybe this means
that only music files with this added secret code can be either loaded
or played or both.
With Linux, you can definitely upload vanilla MP3s to a FAT-formatted
(Windows PC default) iPod and update the XML file: everything will play,
no problems. The software to use is called "gnupod." (There is a GUI
package for GNOME called gtkpod.) The BBC may be talking about the
iTunes Music Store, which uses DRM-laced (encrypted) MPEG 4 AAC files.
These are definitely not required to use the iPod.
Linux may be your best option if you don't have access to a Windows PC.
Linux is of course available for Iyonix, though I have not tried gnupod
or gtkpod with it, as my sister's Iyonix does not have a Linux
partition, and I myself don't have an iPod. I'd recommend the 2.6
kernel, if you can get it: it has read write support for HFS+ volumes,
which gives you a bit more flexibility (i.e. an alternative formatting
option.)
Archer
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