On Sep 15, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Barry Roberts wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:42:07AM -0600, Grant Robinson wrote:
Except for using iTunes (and perhaps budget), I would say an iPod fits
your bill. Lets run down the checklist:
I would say an iPod is pretty far from that. Yes you can mount it
up as a hard drive and drag and drop files to it. But not music.
Unless all you want to use it for is to copy files around, and not
play them on the iPod.
Which is why I said "Except for using iTunes" because he didn't want
to, and that is the only way to get music on there. On every other
count, the iPod fits his bill.
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iPod is #1 for a reason - the interface is very intuitive, and it's
very easy to use. Until something else comes along that trumps it's
ease of use and interface, that is my recommendation.
It's also SEVERELY hated by a lot of people. It's interface isn't
that obvious to a lot of Windows users I know, and using iTunes you
CAN'T get your music off the iPod. You have to have gtkpod (or the
low-level tools it uses, or something like it) on one end or the other
to use your iPod to copy music files, say from work to home.
First of all, clarify "a lot". An 80% market share would tend to say
that the people who hate the iPod are in the minority, not the
majority. If they hated it, why would they be buying it?
As for the interface, it must be doing something right, as I've seen
several players whose interfaces (down to the fonts) are basically an
exact replica of the iPod's (sans scroll wheel). It may not be the
_best_ interface possible, but it's the best one so far, and solves a
fairly hard problem (quick, usable navigation through thousands of
items using limited controls).
Lastly, I don't know of many (if any) players that _do_ let you move
songs. At least there are ways to move songs using the iPod, even if
they are low-level. My first MP3 player was a RIO, and the only
utility for that was a command-line tool that didn't work very well at
all. Compared the other MP3 players I have owned and used, the iPod is
by far the best.
Grant
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