I may just have to switch to Android music players in the future as my last resort. The suggested solutions like Amorok, Rythmbox, Banshee and every other Linux music app I have tried have been unsuccessful at connecting to any but the very oldest iPods running IOS 6 or less. And honestly I don't like Windows that much after seeing how easy, customizable and fast my Linux is. Yes booting over to my win10 partition is an option but I am very resistant to doing that because of the very long time to start and shut-down since so many updates seem to accumulate during the times I (rarely) boot over to that partition. There is no hope left in me that Apple will support Linux users in any way if we buy there products like my current iPod 5g running IOS 9.2, so it seems we must help ourselves here. Top 1 iTunes Alternative for Android - MobiKin Assistant for Android. You can get the newer version at a discount price if you already use WALTR 2. It seems to me that it would not be to hard to parse the database schema on an iPod and make a working application on Linux that could load and manage songs. If you want to easily transfer files between your desktop and iOS devices, WALTR PRO is the software to get as it has got all the bases covered to be a notable alternative to iTunes.

Alternative to itunes for iphone 6