Danese Cooper wrote: [ on 03:57 PM 6/30/2007 ]
Where did you get the idea that you must go through iTunes? I grab music from lots of sources, in .mp3 .wav and other standard formats. Quicktime plays them, and they only convert to .aac if I say to. Also, its a single checkbox to mount an iPod as an external drive. I back stuff up to mine all the time...
Sure. I know that. Which is why I said in my earlier post,
Almost makes up for the fact that it is an annoyingly restrictive device - e.g., one can't easily just treat the ipod as a mass sotrage device and copy over your existing music files - you are supposeed to use Apple's software itunes to do that. There are workarounds for this but the default behaviour is restrictive.
That is, Apple wants you to use itunes for all of this, and has spent a lot of tie and thought tweaking the default user experience towards this, e.g., by storing MP3 files in some dumbass obscured directory format that only itunes can easily recognise.
So notwithstanding the existence of rockbox etc., I stand by what I said.
Happy to give you a testdrive when next I see you.
We should talk about when this is to be, as well. :-) Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
