Use Rhythmbox to sync with iPod Touch
Today I happened to be downloaded a music album online and an audio book from Librivox. I want to transfer them to my iPod Touch. The first program that I remembered to have iPod Touch/iPhone sync ability is Rhythmbox so I launched the program. After playing around its interface, I was beginning to love to use Rhythmbox.
Once I started Rhythmbox from the Sound & Video menu, I had to left-click the music player icon on the status bar and select Show Rhythmbox. The name of my iPod Touch was already listed under Devices, I just needed to add the music and audio book files that I downloaded. It automatically added the files when I dragged and dropped the downloaded files into the Music Player window. Rhythmbox doesn’t seem to support transfer the files directly to the playlist created under iPod Touch. I had to first copy the music files to the root of my iPod Touch and then drag them to the playlist.
The music album I downloaded works great on my iPod Touch, but it doesn’t recognize the audio book files as audio book even I converted them from mp3 to m4b using XCFA. Since Librivox provides separate chapter files for each audio book, I don’t care about using audio book feature in iPod Touch very much.