Are people still having issues with iPods and Linux?
October 12, 2007 2 Comments
I ask this because, much to my surprise, this three year old post about the iPod working out of the box in Fedora gets a surprising number of views on a daily basis. All the requests are the result of web searches, which makes me wonder if people really are still having problems. There’s not a distribution I’ve tried in the last couple years where whatever mp3 player I plugged into it didn’t work out of the box immediately. Curious…
–jeremy
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I suspect it’s because they are trying to play Apple’s proprietary format. If they convert all their tracks and albums to mp3 format they won’t have the problems.
That could indeed be it – cheers.
–jeremy