A few weeks before Christmas; I bought an 8gb black iPod Nano. It’s the first mp3 I’ve owned and on the whole it’s been great – although there have been a few gotchas…

Having witnessed a few experiences in the office with Linux and iPod support I was confident there’d be no hitches. This wasn’t the case however as apparently I bought a Nano that’s a generation beyond the ones currently supported in my Linux distribution of choice – Ubuntu Edgy. I found a set of Edgy update debs created by a Martin Jürgens here. Thanks!

I also received 2 Nano accessories for Christmas which don’t work – again because it’s a next generation model: iTrip and Dock… It was a form factor issue rather than a software/hardware thing though.