HELP!? iPod to work with Itunes 2 on OS9?

[lbj]

Hey Folks, fryke is steering this topic in a more productive direction and it appears FunkSkunk is responding in kind.

Stop the pile on.

[ex2bot]

[Dons gas mask and bad-manners-laugh-o-meter.]

FunkSkunk, you're screwed bud. Try eMusic.

Doug

[Lt Major Burns]

sorry.... i was moody... ¬_¬

[Mikuro]

I had the same question a few months ago when I was considering buying my sister an iPod for her birthday. I never found a solution (and thus I didn't buy an iPod). I just don't think there's any way. It seems like it would be easy enough to write a program to do this, but as far as I know nobody has.

<rant>
The iPod is just a plain ol' hard disk, that stores plain ol' files. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to expect (or at least hope) that there's some way to work with it on "unsupported" systems, especially when you consider that Apple's system "requirements" are often completely arbitrary (FireWire for Tiger? Ooookay). These days, many companies' listed "requirements" just mean "don't ask us for support unless you've also paid us for the following products".

I'll never understand why people act like they're dealing with the scourge of mankind whenever someone mentions that they're using hardware and/or software that's — *gasp* — several years old! As if the problem is the user's fault for not upgrading every day like a good little boy.
</rant>

[kainjow]

Mikuro, the problem with OS 9 is that the drivers for these iPods do not exist. I don't believe they show up on the computer in OS 9 because you still need to get the drivers for them. I know they are plain ol' hard drives, but OS 9 is not a modern OS and doesn't behave like XP or OS X when it comes to "normal drives".

And almost all of the iPod programs now are written in Cocoa, not Carbon, which would be required to have it work in OS 9. If the guy behind Yamipod allowed his program to be compiled for OS 9 then that would be the only program, but I don't think he would (his app is written with REALbasic).

[FunkSkunk]

anyone want to donate OS X so i can get an ipod??????

[fryke]

You should be able to find Panther (the retail version, of course) for less than 129 USD, and depending on the free disk space and amount of RAM you have, it would run nicely on that Dual 450 G4...