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Programmers have bypassed a new difficulty in providing Linux support for the latest-generation iPods.

Already, iPods weren’t simple to use in Linux, because Apple prefers people use iTunes to access the media players and doesn’t supply a Linux version of the software. The newest iPods, though, didn’t work at all, according to the iPod-minus-iTunes blog. The database that the iPod uses to keep track of songs, videos, album art and other data was encrypted in the new models, the programmers said. That means Linux music-management software such as Amarok or Rhythmbox wouldn’t work.

Over the weekend, a number of programmers cracked the code, and technical instructions for using the new iPods are available. The workaround involves many technical steps, though, and many of them must be repeated each time new music is added to the iPod.

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