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<title>iPod</title>
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If you have a portable music player which can also display photos and
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videos, you may prefer to use <ulink url="apt:banshee">Banshee</ulink>,
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which is a music player with good support for such devices.
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iPod owners may also like to try specialized applications such as
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<ulink url="apt:gpixpod">GPixPod</ulink> and
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<ulink url="apt:gtkpod">gtkpod</ulink> for handling multimedia.
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Ubuntu's default music management application,
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<application>Rhythmbox</application> (&rhythmbox;), supports first to fifth
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generation iPods, including the iPod mini, iPod Photo, iPod Shuffle, iPod nano,
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and iPod Video. Rhythmbox can transfer music to these iPods and create playlists.
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The applications <ulink url="apt:banshee">Banshee</ulink>, <ulink
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url="apt:amarok">Amarok</ulink> and <ulink url="apt:gtkpod">gtkpod</ulink> can
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also handle music transfer to and from these iPod devices. These applications
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also include added support for transferring photos and videos encoded in
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iPod-compatible formats to and from first to fifth generation iPods
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Neither the iPod Touch nor the iPhone are officially supported by any Linux
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music management applications at this time.
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For more information on using iPods and iPhones with Ubuntu, see the <ulink
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url="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices">Ubuntu Community
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Documentation for Portable Devices</ulink>.
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<para>Ubuntu supports these devices but requires two steps:</para>
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<listitem><para>Install the <ulink url="apt:mtpfs"><application>mtpfs</application></ulink>
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and <ulink url="apt:mtpfs"><application>mtp-tools</application></ulink> packages.</para></listitem>
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and <ulink url="apt:mtp-tools"><application>mtp-tools</application></ulink> packages.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Open &rhythmbox;.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Click <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Plugins</guimenuitem></menuchoice></para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>Tick the <guilabel>Portable Players - MTP</guilabel> plugin.</para></listitem>