[clue-tech] "Best" replacement for iTunes?

[Dennis J Perkins]

On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 11:23 -0600, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> In my ongoing quest to never boot Windows on my new laptop, I'm looking for
> a decent iTunes replacement. I only use iTunes for two things:
> 
> 1. Sync my ipod
> 2. As a podcatcher
> 
> I don't use it for anything else, especially playing media, because iTunes
> is really an atrocious application - on Windows anyway. And I can't even
> upgrade it to the latest one as the installer dies.
> 
> Switching to a new setup for this is a pretty big commitment and I want to
> pick the best one without a lot of experimentation. The reason for this is:
> 
> 1. Syncing apps will need everything set up the same way as the original
> syncing machine or stuff missing in local repository will be removed from
> ipod. 
> 2. Moving over all the RSS feeds for podcasts will be pretty intensive.
> 3. There is always the chance the syncing app will just corrupt the ipod,
> and I get to start from scratch. I found that even having the ipod attached
> to my windows machine during a boot will hose it up. I think that's because
> of chkdsk.
> 

I think you can use KDE's Amarok or Gnome's gtkpod.  Rhythmbox might
work too.