I’m currently trying to get rid of my iPod and move all my music to my android phone. Needless to say my iTunes installation on the PC is long gone and these iDevices are the proverbial bottomless bit - you’ll never get anything back out of them, or do you?

Thanks to the libimobiledevice and ifuse projects, you can now mount an ipod like any normal usb stick in linux, and it doesn’t even have to be a rooted device.