http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/ Engadget Comments for iPods blocked from synching with Linux http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
and honestly, if I'm annoyed, then mommas gonna hack even more.

stevo, you don't want to declare war on the open source community. you're in over your head kiddo.]]>Sep 15th 2007 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 16th 2007 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 16th 2007 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 16th 2007 1:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 16th 2007 5:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
On the positive side: organizing your music and videos on your computer, iPod, and getting nice album covers.

On the negative side: slowing down your system and running little applications in the background even when iTunes is closed and you don't have any iPod-type connected, messing with your music library and sometimes erasing some of your content without any notification, and lot of other horrible things.

I enjoy using my iPods, but never use iTunes for other than adding content into my library and/or updating my iPods. That's it. Other than that, I stay away from iTunes and make sure that there aren't any "services" running in the background for no reason at all.

And unfortunately, Apple is not alone here. Yahoo Music's player is just as bad. They're cpu hogs and like to run in the background. Why??? Don't tell me to expedite the loading process. Please. I don't mind giving an application the extra time to get started. But, when I have you closed, you better be "closed."]]>Sep 15th 2007 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
Seriously iTunes sucks as a digital media organizer - maybe tops at selling music but not much else.]]>Sep 15th 2007 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Also, i have used linux, mac and windows OS. There are cool things about all of them and i'll never solely rely on one. So don't think i m a apple/windows fanboy. despite the fact tht iTunes is resource intensive, its really cool.]]>Sep 15th 2007 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 16th 2007 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 16th 2007 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
As for my opinion, I always thought Steve Jobs was that way. Contrary to popular belief, Steve doesn't care if you have a tattoo of his face on your butt.]]>Sep 15th 2007 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 16th 2007 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
There was never any official support for iPods/iTunes on Linux. Now that Apple has changed to a hashed database format for iTunes people are complaining about not being able to use the players with an OS that was never officially supported. It's more work for the F/OSS community, but really, why is anyone surprised that a vendor with a proprietary file format has opted to change that format without notice? We don't know why they made that change and we might never know why. But to say that Apple is suddenly locking out Linux users is a misrepresentation of the facts. The iPod was never supported on Linux to begin with.]]>Sep 15th 2007 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/]]>Sep 15th 2007 10:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
Speed/Performance? Future software enhancements to be disclosed at a later date?

Seriously, who cares? I'm a UNIX "graybeard" from way back (over 20 years experience) and what bugs me about the F/OSS community is this strange notion they all seem to have that they're entitled to anything and everything they demand from every company in business. Well, they aren't. iTunes and iPods are Apple products. Apple is entitled to do whatever they want with them, at their discretion. Done deal. Worrying about it and imagining grand conspiracies behind every action is just a waste of time...life's too short.

]]>Sep 15th 2007 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
(PD: I own to macs, one PC, and my iphone is my 5th ipod... been the first a G1 mechanical whell ipod)]]>Sep 15th 2007 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
It seems rather odd to me, as if they are trying to fix music piracy, but I doubt that it's a useful measuer.]]>Sep 15th 2007 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
I take it back.]]>Sep 15th 2007 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
I'm going to get flamed for this but.. get over it! Don't use some unsupported OS with your iPod then complain that it doesn't work! Apple can do what they want, and you shouldn't buy an iPod product if it won't work with your computer!]]>Sep 15th 2007 8:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 9:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
So, with no proof whatsoever, you are saying that Apple only did this to block it from syncing. Alright then...]]>Sep 15th 2007 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
What proof do you have that they DIDNT do it on purpose?

]]>Sep 15th 2007 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
hehe boughten]]>Sep 15th 2007 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
That's like buying the newest version of some software and expecting it to work because the previous versions did. Really irresponsible of these "freetards"]]>Sep 15th 2007 11:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/ Don't use some unsupported OS with your iPod then complain
> that it doesn't work! Apple can do what they want, and you
> shouldn't buy an iPod product if it won't work with your
> computer!

It's true that Apple can decide to screw you at any time, and to control your hardware and software.

And this story on engadget is a one more reminder of the ways of proprietary companies - not complaining.

I concur, noone should buy a product from Apple or any other proprieary vendor.]]>Sep 16th 2007 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/Sep 15th 2007 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
what's everyone up in arms about? Apple doesn't support the use of iPods or iTunes on linux, for whatever reason.

They can do whatever the hell they like with their software. If you're using software that's unsupported, get the devs of that software to fix it. It's not apple's problem, and frankly they've done absolutely nothing wrong.]]>Sep 15th 2007 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
This is effectively adding DRM into the iPod and locking users into using a program that, though good at organizing music, is restrictive and bloated.]]>Sep 15th 2007 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/15/ipods-blocked-from-synching-with-linux/
So why the hell are you using another program!?!

iTunes is perfectly capable of managing your music library and, in fact, does it better than any third-party software.

Aside from performing better, iTunes also actually has a better user interface!

So quit your whining!!]]>Sep 21st 2007 4:31PM