If you're a windows user have a look at Anapod from www.redchairsoftware.com.
It's not a music manager, more of an alterntive way of copying music to the iPod. I have FLACs organised in a folder structure (genre/artist/album) so I don't really need the library stuff. Anapod lets you drag/drop from windows to the iPod and transcode FLACs to WAV/MP3 on the fly with tags intact. It's a *very* slow process to transcode several thousand flacs if you want the whole library on the iPod but that'll be the same with anything and you only need to do it the once! But... I've recently become a dbPowerAmp convert for ripping and they have a companion product for iPod copying. It's not yet compatable with the latest dbPowerAmp but I'm keeping an eye on it because it might make things a bit more integrated. IMHO the Touch is exceptionally cute but mostly wasted effort. Nicely implemented though the browser is, I don't really need a portable wifi device; I can't see a use for it in my environment. One of the HTC smartphones makes much more sense to me. Plus the wheel on the classics is just hard to beat for usability in terms of a) scrolling through a huge music list and b) a volume control. Having said that once you pick a touch up you really won't want to put it down again :-) Marc. -- sugarmonster Toys: http://www.coolest-gadgets.com Photos: http://www.sugarmonster.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sugarmonster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=848 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39762 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
