Portable Audio & Video Player Linux Compatibility: MicroSoft

Compatibility guides about Linux and portable digital audio/music players manufactured by Zune. Reports about running other Unix systems e.g. BSD, Solaris are welcome, too. And don't miss the general resource section at the bottom, containing links to utilities (mostly available under GPL), community efforts, HOWTOs and FAQs. Have you written an installation or compatibility tutorial yourself? Then please feel free to submit a new entry.

MicroSoft Zune

Linux

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Applications

iTunes Playlist Export

iTunes Export exports playlists defined in your iTunes Music Library to standard .m3u, .wpl (Windows Media), or .zpl (Zune) playlists. iTunes Export is open source and freely available for use. iTunes Export provides a simple command line application that can be used to generate playlists, a Graphical UI that provides a wizard interface to exporting playlists, or a DLL that can be used by other developers to add the ability to read iTunes Music Library XML files to other applications.

Resources

• back to Linux with mobile music players survey
• manufacturer site:
• Linux Mobile Guide - Installing, Maintaining and Tuning of Linux on Mobile Computers
• A Survey of Debian GNU/Linux Packages for Portable Audio and Video Players
• Linux Applications for Portable Music and Video Players
• free music
• free eBooks and AudioBooks
• do-it-yourself MicroSoft portable music and video player upgrading, repairing and modding
• FCC ID: unknown
• A list of hardware , from Portable Audio Players, to PDAs, to mobile (cell) phones to DVD players, that can play Ogg Vorbis files.
• file conversions for portable media players: Ogg Vorbis, MP3s, video