Getting an iPod 3G Nano (and others) to work in Linux

After none of the music apps that I installed correctly detected my 3G iPod, I decided to poke around and try to do it myself.  I tried using ifuse, etc. using this article as a guide:

http://geeknizer.com/sync-iphone-linux/

But it would only mount my iPod in read-only.  so then I tried mounting it manually but I didn't know what device it was, so over on Stack Overflow I found this command:

sudo lsblk -io NAME,TYPE,SIZE,MOUNTPOINT,FSTYPE,MODEL

And figured out my iPod was on /dev/sdd1

I then created a folder in /mnt

sudo mkdir /mnt/ipod

...then mounted it:

sudo mount -rw -o uid=1000 /dev/sdd1 /mnt/ipod

-rw is for read-write access, and I threw in -o uid=1000 to ensure that it's mounted for the currently logged in user.  My uid happened to be 1000, but you can find yours by typing:

id -u <your_username_here>

I then used gtkpod to manage my iPod.  It's not user-friendly so I followed this guide:

https://www.howtoforge.com/linux_gtkpod_ipod

TLDR for link above:  create a new repository (point it to /mnt/ipod, tell it what model ipod you have, name it), then sync it off the main screen.  you should see your files now.