Hi Daniel & Mark, Many thanks for the excellent news!! I can't wait until tomorrow when he is being met with another anti-Apple friend to tell both of the good news!
I suspect though that it will be impossible for me to undo the M$-camp brain washing they have gone through ...... Good night, Philippe C on 24/1/07 10:35 PM, Daniel Kerr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Hi Philippe >> >> No question is ever stupid,...just one that perhaps no one has asked yet. >> :o) >> >> The iPod can indeed play MP3's, infact this is one of it's "main formats". >> It can play a view format's as can be seen here:- >> <http://www.apple.com/au/ipod/specs.html> >> (About 1/4 the way down the page, under Audio) >> >> In terms of text files, it can also take these as well. And in fact if it's >> saved as an .rft (Rich Text Format), you can actually view them on the iPod >> screen itself. (In fact we do this with our DVD collection so we don't pay >> ones we already have. If we're not sure we can look on our iPod in the shop >> so we don't have to go back. OK, so that's kinda geeky,..but it saves a trip >> back to the shop) ;o) >> >> But by the sound of it you could wave all this information in front of your >> friend and he's not going to believe you anyway. ;o) >> If you really want to get picky, just ask him about the Zune and what >> formats IT can use! on 24/1/07 11:08 PM, Mark Secker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > heh heh... I know what you mean Daniel... I had to physically sit > down with my iPod at a friends WinXP box... plug it in to show him > that - yes it did actually mount without re formatting.... and yes I > could copy MP3 files on to it using iTunes (or third party iPod > crackers) AND lordy lordy me despite his most adimant proclomations > to the contarary that it would never happen because "every body know > it cant work like that" that I could shift normal everyday files > (text, word, excel, jpg etc etc etc) from the computer on to the iPod > AND, incredible and amazing as it seemed to him too, actually copy > them back off of it to the computer which spun him out because he > was told that "everybody knows you can't copy files from and to an > iPod...... um yeh sure that's why I took it to Japan as my primary > backup device for my RAW photo files........ > > ... then about 4 weeks later I had to pretty much repeat most of this > for the benifit of my housemates when one got an iPod for her > birthday.
