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I love my iPod, and so far it has played every mp3 I have put on it.

For compatibility, you should get AnaPod Explorer instead of iTunes. You can drag-and-drop files manually through explorer and edit your playlists, without having to use the cumbersome iTunes interface.

lol, itunes interface cumbersome? That's bullshit. I still use it a lot....and ephpod for the occasional moments.

No right-clicks or context menus kills the whole application for me.
Plus the idea that you can't just drag songs to your iPod if you want to - you have to add them to playlists and let iTunes do it for you.

There is only one thing I like more about iTunes than AnaPod that I've been able to find - when making the automatic/dynamic playlists, iTunes lets you input more fields of criteria for adding songs to the playlist than AnaPod does. Other than that, I can't really imagine a reason right now that I would ever want to open iTunes again.

What? Where did you get the "No right-clicks or context menus" idea? I could take screenshots of right clicking and context menus on both OS X and Windows, but that would be too much trouble.

I wouldn't bother buying one now. The next Nerdworld Expo will probably introduce the viPod, with viTunes. "Download your favorite television shows for just $2 per episode, or for free with ads. Isn't this great? I always wear jeans." - Steve Jobs

Thus bringing the useful iPod classic down in price.

You forgot black turtlenecks

R00k wrote:No right-clicks or context menus kills the whole application for me.
Plus the idea that you can't just drag songs to your iPod if you want to - you have to add them to playlists and let iTunes do it for you.

There is only one thing I like more about iTunes than AnaPod that I've been able to find - when making the automatic/dynamic playlists, iTunes lets you input more fields of criteria for adding songs to the playlist than AnaPod does. Other than that, I can't really imagine a reason right now that I would ever want to open iTunes again.

Dave covered the rightclick context menus already....and if you rightclick the iPod icon in iTunes you can sync it any moment you want.

For normal day-to-day use it's a fine program to me. If you want a bit more control, yeah you could use anapod and/or ephpod.

saturn wrote:If you want a bit more control, yeah you could use anapod and/or ephpod.

if that's all you can afford

true story

overall, ipod is the better player. don't get me started on sound quality.

It could use some more oooomph. That's all you audiophiliacal maniac.

itunes is perfect man. its not really possible to get less cumbersome than it. its only flaw is the way it organizes your music in folder, it makes it difficult to zip an album up and send it to somebody or whatever because the files are all in different folders based on the id3 tag for artist. When I lived in college dorms everybody in the building was hooked up to the network and could stream anybody's library who was on itunes.

ephpod would be perfect if it had the soundcheck feature as well as the ability to include album art. anapod does but i don't feel like paying for it.

i like automatically updating the pod w/itunes once i got everything organised the way i wanted. haven't tried ripping with itunes yet.

me neither, I just use the old fashioned way of ripping with EAC, encoding with Lame and then tagging properly with Tag and Rename. Takes some work, but that's the way I likes it.

R00k wrote:Plus the idea that you can't just drag songs to your iPod if you want to - you have to add them to playlists and let iTunes do it for you.

:icon10:

you're welcome

Any other claims that need debunking in this thread?

saturn wrote:It could use some more oooomph. That's all you audiophiliacal maniac.

=)

Dave wrote:You forgot black turtlenecks

Racism.

I think i'll just call rook an iTunes noob again :>

Dave wrote:Any other claims that need debunking in this thread?

iTunes doesn't support left-click, that really just doesn't sit right with me.

no, but seriously, I just started using iTunes after using winamp for EVER, and I can't imagine using anything else now. I love it! I want to buy an iPod!

Oh, and as a question, will iTunes update a non-iPod music device? (Creative Zen, for example?)

no

ah there are hacks my friend, in the past there have been hacks, but i don't know about the current version of tunes...