Ubuntu gtkpod hosed my iPod
The first really sucky experience I’ve had since moving toward Ubuntu as my primary workplace is that the iPod handling is pretty badly broken. I installed gtkpod in the hope that I could manage the podcasts on my iPod without having to boot into Windows. Everything looked ok, but when I got into the car earlier today I found that the music I was looking for wasn’t there. In fact, nothing was there. The iPod was just 4GB of emptiness. Not happy.
The whole gtkpod user experience was pretty bad. Apple’s iTunes is much clearer and it just works. Even if I did something wrong in terms of dragging, dropping, saving, etc via gtkpod there is just no way that all the stuff on the iPod that I hadn’t touched (music that was there for months) was erased. When I rebooted into Windows it asked me what my iPod was called, which is an indication of how comprehensively the thing had been wiped.
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Ubuntugtkpod hosed my iPod”