Hello Brian, Friday, May 11, 2007, 7:40:17 AM, you wrote:
> I have had both a nano and a shuffle and love them. My wife has a > normal iPod. I personally believe that there is nothing better. If > you want to have something small and easy to carry, go with a nano. > If you need to keep your whole collection with you at all times and/or > like to watch video go with a normal iPod. If you are a runner I > highly recommend the iSport kit for the nano. Well that's one of the reasons I am getting an mp3 player. I will ride a stationary bike. I like the nano and shuffle - they are small. However, I rather not mess around putting music on and off the unit much. I don't get much time on the family iMac - the family does. > There are people out there who still insist that iPods can't play > mp3s. That is complete crap. The only thing they don't play is the > Microsoft copy protected wmv. So the music you buy from stores that > use the wmv format will not be compatible with your iPod just like the > songs you guys from the iTunes music store will not be compatible with > players other than the iPod. I avoid wm* when at all possible. Still trying to find a convertor to take wma to mp3. The majority of my music is mp3 and went over from my PC to Mac with iTunes just fine. I assume I can plug in the iPod to iTunes and import to it - regardless of format? > Also realize that there are many other options for software to manage > your library and iPod other than iTunes. The only reason to use > iTunes is if you want to buy music from the iTunes music store. Other > than that I don't really like it. I personally use MediaMonkey on my > PC but there are a ton of other options. Just do some Googling. The > downside to not using iTunes on a Mac is that other software won't be > as integrated into the whole iLife thing either. I torrent or use SoulSeek to obtain my music. iLife is something I could care less about. Does MediaMonkey run on OS X or is it just PC? You use it to work with your iPod on your PC? > Oh, and I would really suggest you get yourself a copy of the > Handbrake program. Hands-down the best multiformat ripper and > transcoder for getting content off discs and onto your Mac/iPod. And > it's free. Thanks. Right now I use my PC's to get my music; either I download it or use MusicMatch to burn from cda to mp3. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
