IPod management tools?

Fingel · 2009-03-02 15:46:34

Whats the most lightweight iPod management program that works? Command line or gui, doesnt matter.

kolbycrouch · 2009-03-02 16:03:22

gtkpod is by far the best, imo i tried songbird and banshee with my 5.5g video with no success, btw what ipod do you have, you may run into problems with touches or iphones

Fingel · 2009-03-02 18:22:13

Im using the ipod classic,

skottish · 2009-03-02 21:21:46

Fingel wrote:

Im using the ipod classic,

libgpod, the back end for a lot of these programs including gtkpod, supports the I-Pod Classic.

gtkpod is a very good program that I've used for a long time. It's always worked as expected.

simongmzlj · 2009-03-03 23:47:45

Try gnupod. Its a set of perl scripts for command line ipod managment. There are also some fuse modules that let you mount you ipod in a sane drag-and-drop way right in the filesystem, but those are very young projects.

kolbycrouch wrote:

gtkpod is by far the best

gtkpod is cumbersome and performs poorly with large collections. It started getting very slugish when id sync to my 60 gig ipod.
EDIT: sadly, though, it probably is among the best tools available.

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firecat53 · 2009-03-04 00:19:21

Well, I know you said lightweight......however......Amarok for a largish collection is the one manager that seems to reliably function for me. It will also transfer movies (as long as they are .mp4. No .mov or photos). I run it (only when necessary) w/ no issues on Openbox.

Scott

bwh1969 · 2009-03-05 02:57:50

I agree about amarok. It isn't lightweight, but it is dependable and works well for my 12 GB of m4a music files.

sfriberg · 2009-03-05 19:36:30

I would recommend Floola, works great with my Nano 4G.

sand_man · 2009-03-05 22:28:07

I used gtkpod normally. I also use songbird at work (on WinXP) but it is sooo slow and bloated. If it was a bit lighter I would use it at home too. Last I checked, it kept segfaulting at home anyway...

Phreakazoid · 2009-03-07 17:05:07

simongmzlj wrote:

Try gnupod. Its a set of perl scripts for command line ipod managment. There are also some fuse modules that let you mount you ipod in a sane drag-and-drop way right in the filesystem, but those are very young projects.
kolbycrouch wrote:
gtkpod is by far the best
gtkpod is cumbersome and performs poorly with large collections. It started getting very slugish when id sync to my 60 gig ipod.
EDIT: sadly, though, it probably is among the best tools available.

I have noticed myself that it can take 5 minutes or more to load up my ipod library (I have a 160GB iPod Classic).

Is it the library libgpod that is slow or the program gtkpod with large collections?

virusso80 · 2009-03-23 17:29:26

hi all,
I just bought the new ipod shuffle 4G, but i'm not able to make amarok working? I cheched and libgpod are already installed! When i do on amarok->settings->configure amarok, i can't see anything referred to the ipod! What should i do?

I just tried gtkpod, but my model is not there and if i select shuffle 3rd generation, it says that he cant find any ipod folder structure.

What to do?

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