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Re: [LUG] Upgrading - or not ... (Debian)

 

On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Simon Waters wrote:

On 05/01/12 19:59, Gordon Henderson wrote:

Needed: A program to keep track of podcasts from the BBC and elsewhere,
and download them as required.

Rhythmbox will do that.

A program that syncs the local images with mp3 player. (bonus if it
undestands apples whacky filesystem/database)

rsync will sync.

Linux understands wacky file systems.

Does rebuild_db still understand the database structure?

You've got me here. I know zilch about how iPods store stuff and frankly, I don't care. I have been told they you can't simply drag & drop files to them becuse they have some whacky internal database, but if you can...

I'm wondering if all these issues might just "go away" when she buys a new generic mp3 player...

How hard can it be...

Is someone involved in the process making it deliberately harder than it
needs to be? :)

It simply doesn't work from an end-users point of view. At least not with Debaian Stable, but as it's all I've ever really used, then that's what she has. Maybe time to branch out...

Gordon

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