8/12/2023 0 Comments Uninstalling gpodderIt appears that you can’t turn it off when it’s connected. Hmm…I’ll turn it off and see if that works. Since it’s there and not on the desktop I guess it chose MTP mode. It appears they’ve preloaded it with some music. My cheesy self enjoys that it says “goodbye”. Overall, not as easily intuitive as the shuffle to do without looking. That taken care of, I turn off the device and plug it into my Linux system. I decide to leave USB Mode as Auto Detect for now. I’m happy to discover that it supports 24H time since that’s what I like. The first important thing I find (for now) is the date/time. If I rotate the wheel I get music, slot music, videos, photos, FM radio (another neat reason to go with the sansa), voice, and settings. I turn it on and it asks for my language. The USB cable is like an iPod cable and the device itself looks like a black iPod. Two of the pamphlets were just trial memberships to music sites. I couldn’t find any good tutorials on how to make anything other than the iPod work with gPodder, so I figured I’d go through all the steps I used to get it to work. I really like their memory cards, so I figured they would be perfect for a solid state music player. So I decided to go with the Sandisk Sansa Fuze. Not even one year into ownership of the shuffle After all, my shuffle headphones didn’t last that long. Back when Jobs decided that the new shuffle was going to need a proprietary set of headphones I knew I’d need somewhere else to go when my shuffle died. I don’t care who’s fault it was, combined with one of those problems where the iPod decided not to recognize the songs put on it made me decide to replace it. The last straw was last week when gtkPod suddenly decided it didn’t want to play nice with the shuffle anymore because of some playcount file. And, it meant that I couldn’t use the “mark loaded songs as played” feature of gPodder because I didn’t know if I’d have to load them again. This was maddening! Especially if I waited until the morning to load my iPod. Then it would work well for a few months before I had to do the process all over again. So I had to put iTunes on my computer to reset the iPod. Some time around six months ago, after I erased my podcasts and added in new ones, the old ones were still there! But they didn’t show up in gtkPod! So I had no way to get rid of them. When I was done with it all, I would load up gtkPod to delete the files and start all over again. But it seemed that nearly 100% of the time if I did it too quickly that the iPod would still fail to realize that I had put podcasts onto it. So I had to open gtkPod and select all the files, right-click, and select “Update from file”. If I were to eject my shuffle at that point and try to listen, I’d just get a blinking green and orange light. After some amount of time, it would inform me that it was done. I’d go into gPodder and tell it to “Sync Episodes to Device”. So, let’s say my shuffle was freshly cleared of all podcasts. Let me get into my workflow and why the shuffle became a real pain. Not having a screen meant just listening in order and having to check gtkPod to make sure I’d listened to all the podcasts before clearing the iPod. I went with the iPod shuffle because it was sub $100 and I didn’t really need to spend the money for the screen in the Nano. All I want to do is use gPodder to get my podcasts and listen to them on the way to work and at the gym. While it worked well at first, over the last year it has been a constant pain in my butt. So, a while back I caved and got an iPod shuffle.
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