ipod - rhythmbox (was: Re: OT: somafm.com)

shrek-m at gmx.de shrek-m at gmx.de
Fri Apr 8 23:04:07 UTC 2005


seth vidal wrote:

>okay, if you two want to talk about streaming music - take it offlist.
>

thanks.
i was playing with apple-iTunes (-> somafm.com) and in the next few days 
i get a iPod-mini.


my question:
under rhythmbox - ubuntu-live-cd i saw a iPod-icon in the side-pane but 
not under fc3/fc4t1
fc4t1 - rhythmbox-0.8.8-2

http://rhythmbox.org/news.html
<snip>
Rhythmbox 0.7.2
Fri, 02 Apr 2004 18:13:12 -0500
[...] Nicer iPod icon [Jakub Steiner]
</snip>


are the iPods not supported out of the box in fc3/fc4t1 rhythmbox ?
http://www.apple.com/ipodmini/specs.html
connectivity:
usb2.0, firwire400
audio support:
AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Music Store), MP3 (16 
to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, 
WAV, AIFF

rhythmbox:
plays only  flac, ogg/vorbis (mp3 - not in fedora out of the box)



which packages are necessary for the iPod support ?
are these packages in "extras" ?

google:  something like gstreamer-plugins-mp3, libid3tag, Gtkpod, ... 
are necesassary

-- 
shrek-m




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