Rhythymbox is great for importing and exporting music to the iPod. The only situation I encountered with using Rhythymbox as an iPod management tool is that it has a few problems with album art. To get album art to the ‘pod we must play a song from the album. The problem that I have is that if Rhythymbox is play music it somehow screws up alot of the album art, what I mean is, the album art I am trying to import on the iPod is wrongly associated to other albums. I have had this problem in Ubuntu 7.10, 8.04 and the newest 8.10.
I have been trying gtkpod and gtkpod-acc to see if it now works and when I turn it on everything is fine but the second I click on the iPod directory, to manage it, The gtkpod GUI freezes and my CPU goes to 100% usage and after a little while it starts overheating. Last night I let this go on for about 15 minutes and I killed the process fearing damage to my laptop.
I have told you a few posts back that I have the 64bit version of Ubuntu 8.10 on “kramer” my laptop. So I decided to try gtkpod on my Wind netbook, which runs the i386 version of Ubuntu 8.10. Gtkpod works fine on this installation. I guess I will have to file a bug report stating that the gtkpod 64bit package is broken.
I can now manage my iPod using “blizard” with the correct album art. I can also import video to the ‘pod again, since RhythymBox does not support video.
Try Songbird? Rumor has it that its album art support is superb.
Comment by Derek Buranen — December 5, 2008 @ 5:14 pm
I tried it about a year ago. I haven’t tried the newly released 1.0 version. I’ll probably try it out in the next fewdays.
Comment by spurius — December 5, 2008 @ 6:23 pm
I too am using 64bit debian lenny, gtkpod does the same thing to me when I click the iPod directory. It does finally load up but is a real frustration.
Comment by jwolf — December 15, 2008 @ 3:45 am
I prefer Songbird…a great program…
Comment by GrowthHormoneAntiAging — January 13, 2009 @ 4:31 pm
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nice observation.
Comment by VibeByEniva — January 20, 2009 @ 3:26 pm
yes!
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