Hi,

I am new to Linux... I've chosen Amarok as my iTunes replacement and so far I like it, with one exception - it take between 5 and  10 minutes (yes minutes) to connect my 80Gb 5G iPod. Am I doing something wrong?

After that everything works fine - although I would like to be able to view my iPod in the same way as I can view my collection, is there any way to do this?

What version of Amarok are you using, and what distro and what distro version are you using?

Amarok 1.4.9.1 (Using KDE 3.5.8-8lp Fedora)
I'm actually on an Acer Aspire One which uses a Fedora variant of Linux)

I had the same thing in Amarok 1.4.  The bad news is that Amarok 1.4's iPod loading for huge amount of files isn't optimized.  The good news is that Amarok 2 has this fixed so that it loads much faster (for me, i have 7,000+ songs, loads in under 1 second).

Ah OK thanks... How stable is 2? Is it advisable to replace the 1.4 installation? When will 2 be officially released?