Man, Banshee rocks my socks in a box by the docks.

Amanda bought herself an iPod today (Nano, 4G) and to configure it in the Less Free OS^TM is a right pain - plug it in, wait for ages while it gets detected and some software installed then ...

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... yes, you guessed it - reboot! Even in XP! Then you've got to install iTunes etc etc etc ...

So, openSUSE 10.2. Plug it in. Banshee gets started with it there, ready to go. Drag tracks to it and synchronise. In terms of time, by this point I hadn't even rebooted in Windoze. All our music's encoded in Ogg Vorbis. This isn't a problem for Banshee though, oh no! It merrily converts them all before copying.

Expect to see the iTunes Music Store plugin for Banshee in my home repo and then in GNOME:Community soon.