J Philippe Chaperon wrote:
Dear WAMUG'ers,
I have a perhaps stupid question, but is it correct to say that the iPod
cannot play MP3's and is locked to Apple's music format?
This is a reasonably fair call.
Plenty of users don't realise they need to deliberately change the
import settings and choose MP3 as their preferred format.
AAC and DRM are not too cool IMHO.
Thank the RIAA I guess.
I have a friend who is very anti Apple, both computers and any peripherals,
and he maintains the above statement and also mentioned that text files
cannot be saved to the iPod. With regards to text files I'm almost certain
that it can, many people keep back-ups of their data on the little beasts!
This also requires a visit to the iPod's preferences, at least for the
iPod Shuffle; sadly this is the only iPod I am experienced with, which
is more than some users want to have to do, so again it is an
understandable statement.
Many thanks for any comments.
Regards,
Philippe C.
For me this whole MS vs Apple thing can become a bit too 'us and them'.
More often than not, like most bigotry, it is the tip of an iceberg.
The last time I was called a Mac-Head gave me an uneasy feeling that
went beyond the kind of OS i prefer.
If I think organically grown produce tastes better, I cannot maintain
people who don't eat it are wrong or somehow flawed.
My five cents worth (as there are no more two cent coins)
Cheers
Paul
