Hey Linux community. I have an ipod and I’m trying to put music on it. Itunes simply will not run and it won’t recognise stuff I put on it through files. Is there any thing I can try/use? Information: Linux type: Linux Mint Cinnamon Ipod type: 1.1.2 PC, Ipod Nano, 7th Gen
Never had an iPod, so I can’t really help you, but have you tried the arch wiki? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IPod
Thanks for your help. Sadly it doesn’t help much for Linux Mint.
Other than the way you installed the packages there’s nothing intrinsically arch on that wiki. I recommend you read the page and see if it helps before assuming it doesn’t because you’re using a different distro, arch wiki is great even if you don’t use arch.
Hey mate, I did read through it and it was of no use to me. Thanks for your help.
Ah, sorry, your reply was 8 min after I sent the link which seemed awfully short to test the different approaches listed there, I assumed you hadn’t read it and just discarded for being a different distro. Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.
Man I love this place. So much less “Fuck you, ur dumb bc xyz” than reddit. Y’all are awesome.
All good.
What is the problem? I used rhythmbox for that ~15 years ago and it worked.
Doesn’t recognise my Ipod at all.
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Unfortunately Apple seems to be actively working to make sure that the only way an iPod can be loaded with music is by using iTunes which is only supported on Mac or Windows.
You have a few of options on how to move forward:
1: Make a Windows virtual machine, install iTunes onto it and pass the iPod though to the VM.
2: Install Rockbox (if able) onto the device to enable it to act as a USB mass storage device allowing drag n drop loading of music.
3: Sell the iPod and get one of the many different digital audio players available on the market as most are OS agnostic (they show up as a USB mass storage device) and most use MicroSD cards to store the music meaning you can move the card to a new player as you upgrade later (so you are not locked to one vendor).
Thanks for the the tjps but they all don’t look likely they would run.
- VM hates me and refuses to run.
- Sadly not possible.
- I want to use an ipod.
Did you adjust the resources given to the VM?
I know with Oracle Virtualbox it defaults to like 1 processor core and 500mb of ram for a VM.
I use VLC to download music to my ifruit. It’s access via a (browser) ip address and upload/download from there.
That’s once you enable sharing in the VLC app on your iPod, iPad or iphone
