Complete FUD. There are no extra steps to play regular mp3s on your iPod. I have less then 40 tracks bought through iTunes out of the 4,000+ in my collection. The rest are all mp3s ripped from CDs. All you do is point iTunes to where your music is and it adds them to the library. You can drag and drop mp3s just like any other music file to your iPod.
iTunes will even create mp3s for you. Under "Import" settings, you can tell it to import songs as either mp3 or aac and it even supports variable bitrate encoding. I really don't understand why people continually think that iPod only works with iTunes and iTMS. You don't have to use ANY of that if you don't want to. On 3/19/06, Richard Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe so, but there are extra steps involved in being able to make your > ipod do that. I would rather buy an mp3 player that lets me do that without > jumping through hoops. Pop it in, drag your music files to it, and hit play. > There are enough decent alternatives (ipod clones) now that I no longer have > ipod-envy. :) I almost broke down and got one... just once though. > > I also have that issue of MaxPC. I'm ecstatic they published that article. > Agree, not anything new for me, but good read nonetheless. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight > Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 5:35 PM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re: [H] iPod Help > > At 02:28 PM 3/19/2006, you wrote: > >Its not like it's Apple's fault in this case - it is a demand put on > >them by the RIAA and such. > > > if you buy an Ipod and never use their music service, can you use it to > play back your own mp3 and other supported formats unencumbered by DRM? > > -- Brian
