What is the least fuss way of transferring data to iPod touch from ubuntu.
Preferably, I don't want to install any software. I just want to browse around the contents, add and delete as if a mass storage device.
After connecting the USB, I get a window showing "Apple, Inc. iPod", with no contents but I cant browse using nautilus :(
Even the /media/ doesn't contain an externally mounted drive.
At present, there's no non-fussy way of transferring data to iPod Touch from linux machines, Ubuntu included. There is limited support in various add-ons and media players, but these are tenous at best, and quite often work with one specific version of the iPhone OS.
Just to put the above in perspective, there's not much the linux community can do to improve this without Apple's help and co-operation.
Banshee Media Player (2.2.0) provides out-of-the-box support for my 4th generation iPod Touch that works perfectly.
iFuse claims to be able to communicate with iPod Touches that are not even jailbroken
http://matt.colyer.name/projects/iphone-linux/index.php?title=Main_Page
I have jailbroken my iPod Touch 2.0 and then you can actually mount it over the network with sshfs, and with libgpod4 convince rhythmbox to transfer songs. However I needed the very unlikely combination of fresh libgpod4 with rhythmbox < 0.12 (0.11.x)
Another way, which might very well be overkill is to run XP as a VM, under VirtualBox, and install the iTunes software under it. This is one of the main reasons why I did not want to buy any of the iPod series of devices, because Apple did not make iTunes to run under Linux.
