Fedora amazes yet again

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 08:35 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> 	I got an iPod mini for my birthday.  After installing iTunes software
> on Windows and loading/playing some songs, I rebooted into FC4 and was
> surprised to find an iPod icon on my gnome desktop.  FC4 seems to treat
> the iPod as just another USB hard drive.  From the icon I was able to
> drill down through several layers of folders to files that seem to
> contain songs in Apple's m4a format although, of course, the iPod's
> database structure wasn't quite as transparent.  But in Windows it takes
> real labor to see any structure at all!
> 	I was expecting to have to do a lot to get this far towards using my
> iPod with FC4 rather than with Windows.  But people "out there" seem to
> have already been working on this.  Sometimes the scope of Linux as a
> collaborative project is amazing.
> 	My question: is there an iPod software interface like iTunes that works
> well on FC4, or at least a package that can play (or convert) m4a files?
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depending upon the repositories you are using, the following will work.

iPod
yum install gtkpod

m4a
yum install xmms-aac

Craig


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