Transferring audio/video to iPod on OpenSuSe

gtkpod is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Apple's iPod. It supports the first to fifth iPod generations including the iPod mini, iPod Photo, iPod Shuffle, iPod nano, and iPod Video.

It allows you to import your existing iTunes database, add songs, podcasts, videos and cover art, and to edit ID3 tags.

The latest version has added a raft of new features including: preliminary support gapless playback for MP3 files, multi-threaded on-the fly conversion of WAV, FLAC and OGG files to formats the iPod understands, background-copying of tracks to the iPod, display of album art, and the downloading of album art.

Features include:
    * Remove and export tracks from the iPod
    * Import and export Visio VDX files
    * Read an existing iTunesDB ( import the existing contents of an iPod including playcounts, ratings and on-the-go playlists)
    * Write the updated iTunesDB and added songs to the iPod
    * Add MP3, WAV, M4A (non-protected AAC), M4B (audio book), podcasts, and various video files (single files, directories or existing playlists) to the iPod
    * Normalize the volume of tracks (uses mp3gain or the replay-gain tag)
    * Create and modify playlists, including smart playlists
    * View, add and modify Cover Art
    * Browse the contents of a local harddisk by album/artist/genre by adding all your songs to the 'local' database
    * Extract tag information (artist, album, title...) from the filename
    * Detect duplicates when adding songs (optional)
    * Modify & refresh ID3 tags
    * Synchronize directories
    * Work offline and synchronize new playlists / songs with the iPod at a later time.
    * Export korganizer, kaddressbook, Thunderbird, evocalendar, Evolution etc data to the iPod
    * Choose the character set the ID3 tags are encoded in from within gtkpod

Installation: Use "1-click" installer to install gtkpod
OpenSuSe 11.1 - here
OpenSuSe 11.0 - here

After successful installation go to Start >>  Application >> Multimedia >> Administration and launch gtkpod application

 

Now after connecting ipod launch gtkpod and you will find you ipod listed in the leftmost pane of the application.

 

Now to add audio/video to your ipod just drag the respective file/folder into ipod's playlist and press the save changes button and the files should be loaded properly in the ipod.