Sports make a lot more fun with some good music. So I decided to buy one of this ipod shuffle.

In the store the clerk ask me if I have a mac or pc. So I told im I have a pc. The next question was which windows I use and I told him linux. He replied that he is not sure if this will work.

For the rest out there it will work, probably not as good when you have itunes, but you can upload your music and thats all I care about.

First install the gnupod, which is a command line tool for managing your ipod. Ubuntu has already a package for gnupod.

sudo apt-get install gnupod-tools

Plug in the ipod shuffle and it should be automatically mounted at
/media/IPOD/.

After that we have to initialize the ipod file system.

gnupod_INIT -m /media/IPOD/

All you need now is a tool to sync your music with the ipod shuffle. I use gtkpod and it works fine for me.