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<title><![CDATA[GET FREE - Free your IPODS (on Linux)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rock 'n Snap</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve bought an IPod, eventually as some might say, after fighting at least 4 or 5 years aga]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I've bought an IPod, eventually as some might say, after fighting at least 4 or 5 years against it. I came to the conclusion to buy one because simply all of my friends have one, and surely they can't all be blatantly wrong. Some of them are even hardcore nerds. My only condition was to find a mp3 player that has a good Linux support, good in terms of not having to search 1 week or more to finally get this bastard working. And to be fair, the Ipod was the one, and after almost one week of using it - you can't beat it. The IPod works out of the box, as the mac people would say, on Linux. Brilliant.<br />
Here's a quick tutorial on how you get it working on Linux - I'm using Kubuntu Hardy Heron.</p>
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<p>List of installed packages:</p>
<ul>
<li>ipod *tool for retrieving information from iPods</li>
<li>ipodslave *kio-slave for iPods</li>
<li>libgpod3-nogtk *a library to read and write songs and artwork to an iPod</li>
<li>libipod0 *ipod library</li>
<li>libipoddevice0 *library for retrieving information from iPods</li>
<li>podsleuth *Tool to discover detailed information about Apple iPodsdon't know if they're all necessary, but this is what I have installed!</li>
</ul>
<p>Here are some extra applications, that you might find useful:</p>
<ul>
<li>gpixpod *Organize photos on your iPod, freely! (pretty unnecessary, it didn't work for me!)</li>
<li>hipo *iPod Management Tool (pretty unnecessary as well, as it just manages music.....I'm not using it anymore because Amarok is so much better)</li>
</ul>
<p>Once you've installed the above mentioned packages and libraries, you're pretty much good to go.</p>
<p>I'll now show how you can mount and access your iPod pretty easily.<br />
Just mount your connected iPod in your file manager (I'm using Krusader but Dolphin or any other file manager will do as well). Once it's mounted you can access your iPod via ipod:\ (where you immediately see the folders and mp3s just like any mounted usb drive/stack). Whereas when you just access /media/ipod you only see the file structure from the ipod e.g. Calendar, Contacts, Playlists.....basically cryptic info that you don't wanna see anyway.</p>
<p>So now, if you want to shuffle music onto your iPod you could do it by copying them directly over the ipod:/ slave or by using your music player like Amarok or Rhythmbox. I'm using Amarok, and it works like that:</p>
<p>1. Start Amarok and connect and mount your iPod to your computer.<br />
2. In Amarok go to Settings --&#62; Configure Amarok --&#62; Media Device (the last one)<br />
3. Click on "Autodetect Devices", if it's not autodetected add it manually  (if added manually choose the iPod plugin from the dropdown menu and select /media/ipod (or whatever your iPod is called) as your mount point.<br />
4. On the lefthand side menu in Amarok, select Devices, and click on "Connect" in the top bar.<br />
5. Now go to "Files" (also in the lefthand side menu) and select the tunes or albums you want to transfer to your iPod. By right clicking them you can select "Transfer to Media Device". Once this is done, you have to go back to "Devices" and right click the queue, easier if you press ctrl+a, and right click to "transfer" them.<br />
6. Now you're done. There's nothing else to do, if you've finished transfering the songs, you need to click "disconnect" to unmount the device.</p>
<p>You might ask yourself how you can transfer Photos and Videos to your iPod?! Well, let me know once you've found it out, because I still haven't found a way to transfer pictures or videos. The aforementioned gpixpod didn't really work for me, it said the pictures were transfers, but I'm yet to find them on my iPod, which basically means they are not there. God only knows where they are now ;)<br />
Digikam or Gwenview Users, apparently there is a way to transfer pictures by using the kipi plugin "transfer to iPod", I tried it but it didn't work for me. Any ideas?!</p>
<p>As for videos, you'd need to convert your videos first into mp4 videos, which is a bit of a pain in the arse on Linux, you can use ffmpeg [1] or mplayer, but they just don't look any good. So basically once you've converted them into mp4, you might be able to transfer them via Amarok. But that's just an assumption.<br />
Please let me know, if you've got it working!</p>
<p>Contacts, Events in your Calendar....well, this as well didn't work with my PIM Suite, I tried it with Kontact/Kmail, but I haven't found a way to synchronize the iPod with it. Is there a way?! Again please let me know!</p>
<p>That's it basically, iTunes might be a load of crap, but in the end you will have to use it at some point, e.g when you want to upgrade the Firmware, or if you want to reset the iPod or just basically add events or notes to your iPod (syncing with Outlook) or as mentioned before just want to add some videos or picture, you pretty much rely on iTunes (be it either on Windows or Mac).</p>
<p>Any comments are welcome! Please let me know!</p>
<p>[1] FFMPEG FAQ: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/faq.html#SEC25</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Kubuntu 8.04: primeiras impressões]]></title>
<link>http://blpsilva.wordpress.com/?p=164</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>blpsilva</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Atenção, este blog foi migrado para: http://brunopereira.org
Neste fim de semana eu atualizei o Li]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Atenção, este blog foi migrado para: <a href="http://brunopereira.org" target="_self">http://brunopereira.org</a></strong></p>
<p>Neste fim de semana eu atualizei o Linux do meu desktop em casa, instalando o <a href="http://kubuntu.org/announcements/8.04-release.php" target="_blank">Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)</a>. Inicialmente eu instalei a versão com o <a href="http://www.kde.org" target="_blank">KDE 4</a>, pois já é a <a href="http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0.3.php" target="_blank">versão 4.0.3</a>, e imaginei que já poderia usar tranqüilamente.</p>
<p>De mais chato, encontrei apenas um problema para instalar extensões do <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox" target="_blank">Firefox</a>. Nenhuma extensão estava sendo instalada com sucesso, devido a um problema com o Extension Manager do Firefox. Pelo que pude ver, o problema é específico do pacote do Firefox que veio com o Kubuntu, pois ele estava configurado para utilizar um diretório de extensões incorreto. Eu consegui resolver o problema baixando o Firefox do site oficial e instalando-o por fora do gerenciador de pacotes.</p>
<p>O que me incomodou mais não foi nem isso, foram questões referentes ao KDE 4 em si. Pelo que pude ler depois, o pessoal do KDE não está recomendando ainda esta versão 4.0.x para os usuários em massa. Eles estão recomendando esperar pela versão 4.1.</p>
<p>O motivo por trás disso eu pude constatar. Diversas funcionalidades básicas de configuração que existem no KDE 3 simplesmente não foram implementadas no KDE 4 ainda. Por exemplo, eu não conseguia diminuir a fonte do relógio, e quando eu reduzi a altura da barra de tarefas do KDE, o relógio simplesmente ficou cortado no meio. Eu também não consegui criar atalhos na barra de "Quick Launch", o que me incomodou bastante.</p>
<p>Um último detalhe que eu me lembro é que tanto o <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070405-afirst-look-at-dolphin-the-kde-4-file-manager.html" target="_blank">Dolphin</a> como o <a href="http://www.konqueror.org/" target="_blank">Konqueror</a> estavam com problemas para guardar as preferências de gerenciamento de arquivos. Eu gosto de deixar o modo de visualização de arquivos e pastas como "Lista Detalhada" e sempre ordeno a lista por tipo de arquivo. Por algum motivo que eu não cheguei a descobrir, eles não estavam salvando corretamente esta minha escolha e sempre que eu abria uma nova pasta, a exibição voltava para o formato "Ícones", com alguma ordenação qualquer.</p>
<p>Depois de pouco mais de uma hora me irritando com estas limitações do KDE 4, resolvi instalar a versão do Kubuntu com o KDE 3 (3.5.9 especificamente). Esta versão já é bem melhor, totalmente estável e personalizável. Não tive absolutamente problema algum e tudo funcionou corretamente e de forma fácil, como já me acostumei em relação ao Kubuntu.</p>
<p>Eu recentemente usei em casa o <a href="http://www.mepis.org" target="_blank">Mepis</a> e o <a href="http://www.pclinuxos.com/" target="_blank">PcLinuxOS</a>, mas a verdade é que a melhor distribuição com KDE é o Kubuntu. No meu notebook eu ainda estou com o Mepis, e gosto bastante da distro. Não pretendo trocar não. Entretanto, a distribuição que mais recomendo é mesmo o Kubuntu e esta versão 8.04 está rodando redondinha aqui em casa.</p>
<p>Quanto ao KDE 4, embora ele seja bastante promissor, ele ainda não está adequado para a maioria dos usuários. Eu gosto bem mais do KDE do que do <a href="http://www.gnome.org" target="_blank">Gnome</a>, e estou certo de que em breve o KDE 4 será a melhor opção disponível. Nos próximos meses, entretanto, recomendo a confiabilidade do KDE 3.5.x.</p>
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