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On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 18:54:59 +0000 (GMT) Gordon Henderson wrote: > > So my wife is becoming increasingly frustrated by the day that > Banshee is basically a stinking PoS when trying to sync up her iPod. > (Genuine Apple iPod) This is the one thing that will make her go out > & buy a Win7 license!!! > > She is looking for a new mp3 player which might help, however I fear > the issue is with the version of Banshee shipped with Debian stable > (squeeze). It's quite old and there are several newer versions... > > So I'm wondering what the options are for upgrading just Banshee - It > looks like a fairly huge package with many dependencies, so I don't > fancy compiling from scratch and there aren't any newer .deb's that I > can find (I've tried googling for backports but not finding any) > > Upgrading Debian (to Sid which has Banshee 2.2) might not be an > option either as moving from Gnome isn't an option (although I > daresay new Debians will still support it anyway) > > So - anyone want to give me any options? > > Even if there's a better application to manage podcasts and music on > an iPod - it doesn't have to (and don't want to) actually play music > or videos, just get them to/from the disk/net & iPod... > > Cheers, > > Gordon I've tended to use Clementine - a well kept fork of Amarok 1.4 (ie Amarok before they broke it). It should be in the Debian Stable repositories. Also, you do not need to upgrade the entire system just to install a few packages from Testing. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq