I was trying to extract the audio file from some youtube videos in order to play it back from my iPod shuffle. I tried various methods (including the otherwise quite versatile VLC Player, but finally settled on the following two step procedure:
I have bought an iPod. And it appears that the 3rd generation iPod is substantially different from the previous models. E.g. in its file system. In previous models you could convert the HFS+ file system into a FAT32 filesystem. HFS+ is the filesystem used by the new MacOS X OS. It cannot be read by Windows OS (unless you buy commerical third party software such as MacOpener or MacDrive). There are several Linux-interfaces for the iPod, but they all require that the iPod is mounted as a regular mass storage device.
