Reply to Re: Linux and stuff...
If you don't have an account, just leave the password field blank.
I've used both Amarok and Gtk-pod for that task... as well as ipodslave, but that one's a little more complicated than the other two. As for how well they work, you're going to have to test that yourself, since I despised iTunes from the second I had to use it, and thus never did.
