(Not) Auto-updating Your iPod or iPhone
With the simple instructions as to how to use your iPod or iPhone with Ubuntu out of the way, it's worth thinking about a couple of other things. Most important of these is the device's auto-updating settings. When you enable auto-update on your iPod or iPhone via iTunes, the function is set up within the device itself. You can use your iPod in Windows, Mac OS, or Linux—or all of them interchangeably. If you set up your iPod to auto-update songs and playlists, however, you are leaving yourself open for trouble unless you have exactly the same music collection on all of your machines.
The reason for this is simple. Although iTunes allows you to add files to your iPod, it does not allow you to copy files from ...
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