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[The Ceej]

This is one of millions of reasons why you don't install iTunes. You don't need iTunes. iTunes is evil. If someone bought me an iTunes gift card, I would hand it back to them and say, "You just wasted your damn money."

ml_ipod is what you should be using. It's a plugin for Winamp and it's better than the built-in iPod support.

[Nominus Experse]

Since my other two computers are in repair at the moment, I have to rent out a laptop from the college library. They come pre-installed with iTunes, and do not allow the borrower (me) access to remove pre-installed programs.

Otherwise, duh. I smurfing hate iTunes. DRM and all this other that is not only frustrating to bypass, but slows the machine down considerably.

And I loathe Macs.

And I do use WinAmp, so I'll look into that plugin.

[The Ceej]

This is where to find it. But be warned that two iPod support plugins cannot be installed in Winamp simulateously. ml_ipod will make you uninstall the included iPod support in order to install it. You can do it. ml_ipod is a million times better.

[Mirage]

I like MP3 players that simply work as portable mass storage units. Nothing more, nothing less.

[KoShiatar]

Teach us Nominus, because I hate automatic synchronization issues.

[Nominus Experse]

It's pretty easy, actually.

Go to Edit>Preferences>iPod and check the box for manual syncing. If you don't want to autosync when you connect the iPod to do this, hold down Ctrl+Alt+Shift (or it might only be Ctrl+Shift) for a number of seconds after the iPod appears in the source list. This sometimes takes forever on some machines (~3-25 seconds)

[crono_logical]

I'm sure nothing's stopping you use knoppix on the borrowed laptop - might even be safer since you know it'll be a clean OS image you're running and not have a small chance of being infected with trojans or keyloggers or whatever