[wellylug] Ipod with Linux

[David Antliff]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Andrew Stephen wrote:
> I was looking for a hard-drive based music player that would function
> properly with GNU/Linux with minimum fuss.  I considered iPod,
> Creative and iRiver players at first.  A bit of google searching
> revealed that all of these (I'm less sure about iRiver than the
> others) required special drivers or software in order to load music
> onto them from Linux.  They all operated as portable drives without
> too much effort.

The iRiver H-series doesn't *need* special software to load stuff onto it. 
Special (and opensource) software is needed to construct the database for 
a certain mode of operation. I don't use that mode and it's definitely not 
essential.

After mastering UDEV, whipping up some nifty rsync scripts and learning 
about fat32 mount options I was able to construct a pretty nifty system.

/dev/iriver1    /mnt/iriver     vfat  user,noauto,shortname=win95  0 0

If anyone is interested in further info on the excellent H-series, please 
email me off-list.

-- 
David.