Free ipod software for linux

YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. YamiPod can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation.
Take a look at the feature list to find out what it can do and feel free to suggest anything that might be missing.
Main features:
- stand alone program, no installation required
- iPod is automatically recognized
- mp3 and AAC files can be copied to/from iPod
- read/write access to mp3 id3 and AAC infos
- lyrics support (with internet auto search)
- playlist support (On-The-Go included)
- playlists import (PLS,M3U)
- playlists export (PLS,M3U)
- full unicode support
- auto-download new versions
- advanced song import/export settings
- 2 restore features
- built in music player
- iPod informations
- 2 search features
- remove duplicated tracks
- find lost music files
- easy ratings edit
- PC to iPod synchronization
- create and edit notes
- automatically update song playcounts
- News RSS and podcasts to iPod upload
- Growl support (Apple only)
- export song lists to HTML or plain text files
- multiple iPods support
- Audioscrobbler support
Enhancements:
- [FIX] iTunes length at the end error
- [FIX] application quitted after unexpectedly in some situations

ipod-sharp is a library for interacting with Apple iPod devices, specifically the song database.

ipod-sharp relies on libipoddevice.

ipod-sharp is a library that allows manipulation of the iTunesDB used in Apple iPod devices. Currently it supports adding/removing songs and manipulating playlists.

Installation:

The simplest way to compile this package is:

1. `cd to the directory containing the packages source code and type `./configure to configure the package for your system. If youre using `csh on an old version of System V, you might need to type `sh ./configure instead to prevent `csh from trying to execute `configure itself.

Running `configure takes awhile. While running, it prints some messages telling which features it is checking for.

2. Type `make to compile the package.

3. Optionally, type `make check to run any self-tests that come with the package.

4. Type `make install to install the programs and any data files and documentation.

5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing `make clean. To also remove the files that `configure created (so you can compile the package for a different kind of computer), type `make distclean. There is also a `make maintainer-clean target, but that is intended mainly for the packages developers. If you use it, you may have to get all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came with the distribution.

libipoddevice is a device-specific layer for the Apple iPod. It provides iPod-specific HAL event notification to applications, and along with objects representing an iPod, which gives the application access to properties and features of an iPod.
libipoddevice also provides a debugging program, ipod to view iPod device properties, listen for iPod HAL events, and safely eject iPods (iPods must be unmounted, then ejected).
In order for libipoddevice to detect an iPod, the iPod must be first mounted, and HAL must detect the mounted iPod volume. Best results come from a setup where gnome-volume-manager detects the presence of an iPod, and calls pmount-hal to mount the iPod. However, libipoddevice also has submount support, and should work with a submount/gnome-volume-manager setup as well.
libipoddevice does not provide any feature-specific iPod support, like reading/writing the iTunes Song Database (iTunesDB). This functionality is met by ipod-sharp, a Mono library that provides bindings to libipoddevice and feature-specific support.
Building libipoddevice
libipoddevice requires HAL 0.5.2 or later, which requires a fairly new D-Bus, hotplug, and udev. Any system running GNOME 2.11/2.12 should meet these requirements however (SuSE 10, Ubuntu Breezy, Foresight Linux, Fedora Core 4). Also required are development packages for glib/gobject.
After obtaining sources from a tarball or CVS, extract/change into the root libipoddevice source directory, and, if from CVS:
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
OR, if from tarball:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr
Then,
$ make && sudo make install
configure should automatically detect if you have pmount enabled. However, you can specify custom unmount/eject commands by passing --with-unmount-command="/path/to/unmount %d and --with-eject-command="/path/to/eject %d. Also, %d can be used for a device node, %m for a mount point, and %h for a HAL Volume ID.
If you are using submount, you can pass --enable-submount to configure if it is not automatically detected.
Enhancements:
- src/ipod-device.c (ipod_device_eject_hal): Propagate any errors to parent function, which will be sent to consumer application for display
- (ipod_device_eject): Handle the error_out parameter and propagate as a GError to caller
- src/ipod-device.h: Added ERROR_EJECT

Mac::iPod::GNUpod is a Perl module to add and remove songs from your iPod; read and write databases in iTunes and GNUpod format.

ABSTRACT

This is the module to do anything with your iPod, with methods for initializing your iPod, adding and removing songs, and reading and writing databases in the iTunes and GNUpod formats. This module was originally based on the GNUpod script package, written and distributed by Adrian Ulrich, (pab at blinkenlights.ch), http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupod/. However, a lot of development has occurred since then, making the module more flexible and more appropriate for CPAN. This module and the GNUpod scripts remain completely interoperable--they write the same file format and work in much the same way.

SYNOPSIS

use Mac::iPod::GNUpod;

my $ipod = Mac::iPod::GNUpod->new(mountpoint => /mnt/ipod);

# Read existing databases
$ipod->read_gnupod;
$ipod->read_itunes;

# Add songs
my $id = $ipod->add_song(~/music/The Foo Brothers - All Barred Up.mp3);

# Get paths to songs
my $path = $ipod->get_path($id);

# Find the id numbers of existing songs
my @yuck = $ipod->search(artist => Yoko Ono);

# Remove songs based on id
$ipod->rm_song(@yuck);

# Write databases
$ipod->write_gnupod;
$ipod->write_itunes;

Mac::iPod::GNUpod is a module designed to let you read the database(s) on your iPod and add and remove songs from it using Perl. It is based on the GNUpod script package written by Adrian Ulrich, which is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupod/. You do NOT need to install the GNUpod scripts in order to use Mac::iPod::GNUpod module. The GNUpod scripts use a plaintext XML database alongside the binary iTunes database used internally by the iPod. This package is capable of reading and writing both the GNUpod database format and the iTunes database format, and can peacefully coexist with both.

The iPod Music Liberator allows you to copy music from your iPod to any computer, filling in a missing feature of iTunes. You see, iTunes only allows for a one way transfer of music from your computer to your iPod.
But what if you want to move music to another authorized computer? What if you want to make a backup of your music? What if your computer crashes and you lose all of the music on your computer? What if you buy a new computer and need to move your music? What if ... ? Use the iPod Music Liberator for all of your iPod music copying needs.
Main features:
Organized Copying
- Simply copying music from your iPod to your computer is not enough. The iPod Music Liberator allows you to automatically organize your music into folders labeled by artist and album. The iPod Music Liberator also allows you to place all of your music into one folder. Combined with the powerful searching capabilities detailed below, you can organize your music into folders any way you like.
Intelligent Copying
- Dont waste your time copying songs that are already on your computer. iPod Music Liberators intelligent copying feature allows you to copy only the updated songs from your iPod to your computer. This is crucial for people that do regular backups or want to keep syncronized music collections.
Powerful Searching
- Maybe you only want to copy songs from a specific artist, album, or genre. iPod Music Liberators powerful searching capabilities allows you to search "on-the-fly." This means your search is refined with every key you type just like in iTunes.
- Dont let the searching power end there. You can also simply click on any table header to get an alphabetical or reverse alphabetical listing.
Simple User Interface
- Dont let complex user interfaces get in the way of your productivity. The iPod Music Liberator has a simple user interface to allow easy navigation.
Quick Song Listing
- Why wait for a program to find the songs on your iPod when you could be copying songs? The iPod Music Liberator uses the iPods own internal database to quickly list your songs.
Music Player
- Dont have iTunes installed to play music directly from your iPod? Let the iPod Music Liberator do it for you. Whether youre refreshing your memory about which song you want to copy or playing music for friends, the iPod Music Liberator can directly play your music from your iPod.

kuickPod is a konqueror service menu for gnuPod.

kuickpod adds a service menu entry to konqueor, whenever you right-click on an mp3 file. Chosse "Add to iPod" for simply adding the file(s), or "Add to iPod and umount" for adding the file(s) and afterwards unmount the iPod.

Deleting files from iPod is not supported, yet.

As kuickPod is based on gnuPod, make sure youve this installed, and your iPod is initialized by gnuPod.