Totally untrue, Jim. I _know_ you are trolling. Hooked! I use tons of music management and organization software with my ipods, and have no problems at all.
iTunes is just one of dozens of options for managing your device. iTunes is really 3 things. A music store. A music library organization tool. A file transfer/sync utility. The music store is good, 99c and 9.99 per album, but currently requires me to burn all of my bought music to a cd, and rerip it (to get rid of the drm). I also use Rapsody, Pandora, Amazon, Walmart, and the websites of bands. And of course rip my own from cd, and record my own from vinyl and cassette using audacity. The music catalog is decent. Does a good of displaying the content. Love coverflow. The library file is easily manipulated by coldfusion. I like the "star", played count, and lyrics tabs. But I use lots of other software to maintain this. Musicmatch, winamp, mediamonkey, coldfusion etc. The file syncing and transfer tool is simple, well integrated with itunes, but limited. I have tons of playlists I upload at various times (depending on season, new music, favorites, mood, etc). But the transfer is only one-way. Floola, ephpod, vpod, yamipod, and others do a bang-up job. As does coldfusion (treating the ipod as a usb hard drive) Also, the ipod support multiple encoding types, including mp3 iPod: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV iPod shuffle: AAC (M4A, M4B, and M4P up to 320 Kbps), MP3 (up to 320 Kbps), MP3 Variable Bit Rate (VBR), WAV, and AA (Audible spoken word, formats 2, 3, and 4) On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Scott Raley -ITC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 11:53 AM > > To: cf-community > > Subject: MP3 player > > > > Anyone have suggestions on an MP3 player? Going to get wife one for > > xmas > > since the creative labs she had is dead because battery won't recharge. > > Was > > recharging off USB connection to PC and stopped. Its only 10mos old and > > Creative Labs tells me its under warranty return to place it was > > purchased, > > well target doesn't do warranties after 60 days so I'm stuck at this > > point. > > If you can stand iTunes (I personally can't) then iPods are, by far, the > most supported - but you are forced to use iTunes (blech) and you'll be > spending a little more. > > I LOVE my Sandisk Sansa - I picked up the 4 Gig model (which also accepts 2 > Gig MicroSD) for less than $40 but I've seen the 16 Gig models for less > than > $100. It's small, has a great screen and features a voice recorder and FM > radio (with "record from radio"). Battery life is stunning with my unit > lasting well over 20 hours of play time on a charge. > > The unit appears as a removable drive or you can use Windows MediaPlayer or > any software that can access a removable device. It's "PlayForSure" > compliant and plays most non-DRM'd formats as well. > > One interesting aspect is that there are several open firmwares available > for the unit: as with most things like this the interface leaves a lot to > be > desired, but if you ever wanted to play "Doom" on your MP3 player (or, more > pragmatically, use many of the lesser known lossless CODECs) it's an > option. > > Accessory support is good - not great, but probably as good as you'll get > with a non-iPod model. Simple things like cases, straps, cables, etc are > easy to find. Docks and such are harder and more limited, but still > available. > > About the only negatives I have to offer are that it uses a proprietary > charging/sync cable (I wish companies would just stick to plain-jane USB) > and that it sometimes takes a bit long to start up (when you change the > content it does a "database refresh" which can take as long as 20 seconds - > I presume longer on the larger capacity models). > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:281170 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
