iTunes alternative for Ubuntu?
Has anyone found a good one? I've tried a bunch... they either don't do podcasts or correctly handle SHA1's on the iPod Classic.
I'm using iTunes on Windows...which takes 100% CPU. I'd really like to find an Ubuntu-native alternative that's efficient.
Edit: Video support would be nice, but not a show-stopper.
ITunes lets you export your subscriptions as OPML, which makes it easier to recreate those podcast subscriptions.
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dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
How about SongBird? I have not used it personally, but have heard good things and buzz.
winkler1Songbird looked great, but the podcast stuff flat out didn't work.
other folks having problems - http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/topics/how_to_use_podcast_on_songbird
Farhad2000iTunes and it's integration with other OS systems is one of the primary factors I avoided buying iPods as MP3 players.
But try these http://www.simplehelp.net/2007/07/08/10-alternatives-to-itunes-for-managing-your-ipod
imstellar28 says...rhythmbox can do everything itunes can do, can't it?
srdI use amarok with the ipod. Don't know about podcasts, I'm not really into that. It has a Last.FM stream player with feedback though. Oh, this amarok 1.4. Amarok 2.0 was a complete rewrite and still can't do everything 1.4 could due to different internals.
Be aware that you'll have to manually set the device ID on the ipod classic for it to work under linux though. Took me a day to figure that out.
rougyI don't know about podcasts, but Amarok does a pretty good job with radio streams.
I was able to use FireFox to listen to a couple of webcasts and a remote *.mp3 with the "Podcast Alley Player."
Was forced to download some GStream packages and got some video with one setup.
And the Totem Movie Player worked for the *.mp3, too.
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