Nathan: Here's Fry's list of mp3 players sorted by price. Some of them are very inexpensive ($20-60) and simple (basically USB flash drives with firmware + a battery case). If you want to try one, it's pretty simple. If you have a plain USB flash drive, you can also tell Amarok to treat that at as a generic music player to test out its media management. I don't know if you've kept up with the later versions of Amarok, but in 1.4.5, I think it was, they added integrated support for Magnatune within Amarok, and I think Jamendo support is in there as well now. Amarok 2 will have (if 1.4.x doesn't) a whole framework for integrating music stores. On 8/7/07, Nathan Aubrey wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 August 2007 06:13:12 pm you wrote: > > Nathan Aubrey wrote: > > > Do any of you use iTunes? How do you deal with it on linux or what do > you > > > do? > > > > iTunes, the music sales download service and it's client software, does > > not run directly on Linux. I have seen claims that it runs under wine. > > I don't use it. I don't buy DRM music. > > > > (I buy CDs or download from services like http://magnatune.com) > > > > iTunes, the music file organizer part of the iTunes client software, is > > easily replaced by many "as good" or better choices on your Linux OS. I > > much prefer Amarok (http://amarok.kde.org/). I use it with my iPod > > Nano, my kids use it with their Creative USB stick players and my wife > > uses it with her Creative Vision:M player. > > > > Aside: Yes I own an iPod. It was a gift nearly two years ago. It has > > never had an iTunes song on it, only MP3s from my ripped CDs or from > > non-DRM download sources. One of these days I'm going to put > > http://www.rockbox.org firmware on it and have some real fun! > > > > Alan > > A friend of mine has two laptops and a desktop and I installed Ubuntu on > one > laptop and archlinux with KDE on the other laptop. He likes KDE so much he > bought a new desktop to replace his windows XP box and then asked me about > iTunes... He buys music through it, but I've showed him some other sites > to > buy music from and I love Amarok, so I showed him how to use that. > > But I don't have any kind of mp3 player, so I'm a little in the dark on > that > side. I would like to buy one someday, but I keep having kids.... so money > isn't always around for my toys... ha ha > > nathan > > -- > > > > 01001010 01100101 01110011 01110101 01110011 > 01010011 01100001 01110110 01100101 01110011 > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Amarok: Rediscover your music. -- http://amarok.kde.org Sabayon Linux: Cutting Gentoo's edge. -- http://www.sabayonlinux.org