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Syncing Music Players In Linux?
Daengbo writes "I recently sold my old laptop to a friend, and she asked me to keep Ubuntu on it rather than installing Windows for her. To help her with the transition, I wrote two intro lessons for her, but we've hit a stumbling block. The iRivier Clix (4GB) she's been using syncs with Windows Media Player. My research shows that the model has both an MTP for the sync and a UMS mode which acts as a mass storage device. Rhythmbox's 'Scan Removable Media' doesn't pick up anything from the USB mass storage device, and although Syncropated claims to support these types of devices, it doesn't find any supported devices. Unless you use an iPod, this appears to be a real weak point in the Linux desktop. Do you sync your mass storage devices and music players? What do you use?"
Oh boo hoo, the world will end because you can't sync your mp3 player...or at least your particular model. If this is a real weak point in the Linux Desktop, then we've come a long way. Instead of whining to the community, write an app or complain to the makers of iRiver that they are not supporting their customer base by refusing to write a quick and dirty, yet shiny and neat-o, application to sync your player under Linux. Beeya!
Reading through his blogs, he either doesn't have good proofreading skills, or the blogs were made in a hurry. Lots of spelling errors (that *would* have been caught by a spell checker), several sentences that look like the thought train derailed, etc.
If he's a TRUE geek, he'll probably ignore that she's most likely interested in him (or be too shy to ask her, or further still, be gay and not care).
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How the hell is my comment flamebait? It is a factual observation of his blog entries. If whatever coward decided to mod me down instead of reply to me did so 'cause of the gay comment, then you apparently don't know about the rules where only gay people can talk about such things and not get in trouble...
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No, Ctrl-alt-bullshit