I'm very tempted by the new 80gig Ipod classic. So tempted I may actually get one. However the thing which puts me off Ipods are the daft restrictions which seem to come with them. Not having had one I don't know how much truth there is in all the gripes and moans, so can anyone tell me:
Do I have to use Itunes?
Will Itunes always have to run and be a big stupid resource hog?
Will Itunes unilaterally wipe stuff off my hard drive/ipod without my telling it too?
Will the ipod play WMA, FLAC, OGG etc or am I limited to mp3?
I've answered this one myself via this review:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/apple/review/2007/10/03/Apple-iPod-Classic-80GB/p3
Ta for any help offered.
1. Yes. But, as it's by a considerable distance the best software of it's kind out there, it shouldn't be too much of a chore
2. No, doesn't need to run all the time unless you're playing music on your computer. And it's not a resource hog anyway in this day and age - any decent cmputer will have more than enough oomph to handle it.
3. Absoloutely not
Do the tunes have to be in one place? At the moment my music is stored on an external drive, can I tell Itunes that's where my music is and that's the end of it or will Itunes demand I move it into it's own folder.
4. It will play it from where you tell it, but I've always though people who do this are just being ackward for the sake of it. Why not just keep your music on your computer?
It looks like a very good buy for music, less so for video because of the limited formats.
Couple of free bits of software will sort out the format stuff very easily - in fact most will be sorted simply by pressing the below bit in itunes itself (to convert other video formats to suit ipod. Also, a lesser known feature, but one I love, is the ability to plug the ipod directly into the TV and watch excellent quality video, so it's essentially a big travel DVD ith the capacity for over 100 movies at perfect quality.