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Helen’s iPod came yesterday and I’ve spent a the last day and a bit working out the best apps to use in Linux in order to get the best results I have so far got music and video’s to transfer fine and have been using Thin Liquid Film for conversion which makes things nice and easy.

Installing TLF was somewhat complicated as first I had to implement a hack that points pyqt to python-qt3/4 and add a simlink from bash to dash, add the medibuntu repo and last of all, add the line “KDEDIR=(‘/usr’)” to the install script as it was unable to pick up my KDE directory.

That may seem like a lot but it is only one paragraph and the result is nice and easy iPod-ready video conversion.

To add further to this complexity, the built in file transfer is broken but this was quickly remedied by Amarok (which does everything without hassle, I might add) where I just banged the files into the transfer pane and they just go into the right places.

My next step is working out how to convert audiobooks to the M4B format in linux. Stay tuned..

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