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[Taxi_Driver]

I won one this week in a competition!  

Its a 2Gb one.......ok i know the obvious answer  

Been playing with it a bit...downloaded some music to it (some how!).....instructions are useless!  

And do you 'import' songs to it? or 'add files to library' (which seems to do cack all)??  :-/

[TheBoy]

Smash it up.

[Chopsdad]

Ask a teenager  

[Taxi_Driver]

Smash it up.

Have you found Sammy??

[TheBoy]

Smash it up.

Have you found Sammy??

No, but Sammy Jnr (4lb club hammer) will suffice for this application.  Or Percy Pickaxe of course....

[Taxi_Driver]

Will hope i can get the hang of it before i take TB's advice.....after all its a £100 prize  :-/

[theolodian]

I won one this week in a competition!  

Its a 2Gb one.......ok i know the obvious answer  

Been playing with it a bit...downloaded some music to it (some how!).....instructions are useless!  

And do you 'import' songs to it? or 'add files to library' (which seems to do cack all)??  :-/

You have to install the iTunes app.

[tunnie]

I won one this week in a competition!  

Its a 2Gb one.......ok i know the obvious answer  

Been playing with it a bit...downloaded some music to it (some how!).....instructions are useless!  

And do you 'import' songs to it? or 'add files to library' (which seems to do cack all)??  :-/

You have to install the iTunes app.

Yup iTunes needed, or an add-on for Windows Media player... which costs money  

iTunes is good, runs like a sack of sh!t on Window's, works well on my Mac though  

I'd be happy to 'lend' you some of my music collection... all 119GB's of it  

[Danny]

i've got a philips mp3 player which keeps me company in the gym, its just plug and play! connect it to a USB socket and open it's relevant window your computer and just copy files directly into it!

[Paul M]

I won one this week in a competition!  

Its a 2Gb one.......ok i know the obvious answer  

Been playing with it a bit...downloaded some music to it (some how!).....instructions are useless!  

And do you 'import' songs to it? or 'add files to library' (which seems to do cack all)??  :-/

You have to install the iTunes app.

Yup iTunes needed, or an add-on for Windows Media player... which costs money  

iTunes is good, runs like a sack of sh!t on Window's, works well on my Mac though  

I'd be happy to 'lend' you some of my music collection... all 119GB's of it  

Noooooooooooooo iTunes sucks... Even though I now use a Mac, I just decline the EULA if it ever pops up so it's never actually loaded on my Mac

Many decent music players will support it, there's a FREE plugin for Winamp, and it's built into Amarok (which is a great music player, loads better than iTunes and the pile of crap that is Windows Media Player... although it's not available for Windows yet as it's built with QT).

Use iTunes if you want an easy life though . It's one of the things I hate about iPods though, why the hell can't it just show up as a drive so you can copy music straight on? Even my Nokia phone can manage that FFS!

[Martin_1962]

Smash it up.

Have you found Sammy??

No, but Sammy Jnr (4lb club hammer) will suffice for this application.  Or Percy Pickaxe of course....

Not an Ipod fan then?

I like my MD Walkman

[tunnie]

iTunes has its faults... but it does what Apple intends, easy use. Plug iPod in away you go.... album art, ratings ect all very easy.

If you have a large collection say over (21,000 tracks   ) Its nice and easy to browse though the album covers....

Windows Media player is worse really.... Winamp the best, but not user freindly.

[supermop]

Smash it up.

Or sell it and get a Creative Zen nano

You need to use iTunes to "synchronise" songs to it. Basically you add your mp3's to the iTunes library and then press the synch button with the ipod plugged in. It will then transfer the files to it.

iPods have a gay filing system which makes it impossible to simply copy/paste songs to it like any other mp3 player. Apple have to be different cos they're gits.

[TheBoy]

iTunes has more bugs that a Libyan coffe shop, mostly serious as well.

The reason why you can't just drag music on like any decent mp3 (decent? mp3? in same sentence!) is due to the way Apple are trying to enforce DRM.

iPod is typical Apple - style over function, despite the price.

[Paul M]

iTunes has its faults... but it does what Apple intends, easy use. Plug iPod in away you go.... album art, ratings ect all very easy.

If you have a large collection say over (21,000 tracks   ) Its nice and easy to browse though the album covers....

Windows Media player is worse really.... Winamp the best, but not user freindly.

Amarok will get all your album art automatically from the net, just one click away.

Oh and iTunes won't play a single track of my 100+ Gb collection, as they're all in FLAC and unlike any decent media player which supports plugins, if Apple doesn't give a format their blessing, then you're not playing it.

Yes Windows Media Player sucks royally (Media Player Classic is a perfect example of less being more), but it's a very poor benchmark to aim for anyway.

Personally I use Winamp with the FLAC plugin on Windows, and Amarok on Mac or *nix. I don't have an iPod, don't like them for the very reasons described above -- i.e. they're full of artificial restrictions. Although I believe there are hacked firmwares out there for some models that allow them to work in a more consumer-friendly manner.

Oh and by decent quality MP3 player I should have said "decent quality solid-state portable music player" . I agree MP3 sucks and is well past its retirement date, personally I always use FLAC to rip CDs at home, and where space is a premium over sound quality I'll use Ogg Vorbis if possible and failing that AAC.