[Wolves] kicking the windoze habit

Kevanf1 kevanf1 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 10 11:36:35 GMT 2007


On 09/02/07, Zeth Green <theology at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sound Juicer does enough for me, I explained how I use it in my Ipod guide:
>
> http://commandline.org.uk/2006/an-ipod-system-for-linux-summary/
>
> On 09/02/07, Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The next time you buy a portable audio player,
> > consider one which also plays ogg files, which are the
> > default format on most Linux distributions.
>
> I got my ipod free, but apart from the small size, ipods are pretty
> crap. Not only do they not play many formats, the fact that you cannot
> just mount it as USB and dump a file on it is ridiculous.
>
> > On Windows or the Mac, use VLC to play ogg files.
>
> Realplayer also plays oggs. If I want to play a lot of music then I
> use mplayer. I also have Audacious which Gentoo sneakily swapped in
> for XMMS.
>

You can actually replace the firmware (well, actually it just goes
alongside Apple's software) and have your iPod play ogg files as well
as many other things.

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