Subj : Re: Bye Bye iPod
To   : Dr. What
From : Ennev
Date : Wed May 11 2022 14:10:55

 > But Apple's attitude of "we control everything" always grated on me and I
 > always found better products for less, so I had no reason to submit to the
 > Lord Steve Jobs.
 
I understand the iTunes software was a pain, especially on windows :-) But I
always felt there was a workaround. In a way, it helped me organize my music
much better than what I was doing on winamp. With the help of stuff like "music
brain picard" I tagged properly my music collection and at first, reluctantly
iTunes (now music) became my central repository. But sadly that silo approach
always was and is still there from many manufacturers, wasn't really easy to
use a Palm Pilot without the proprietary software or even a kindle today. In a
way it's sad, I don't mind that I have to use your software but let me use
something else too.

 > I've had many MP3 players.  The Archos devices beat Apple hands down.  I did
 > own 1 iPod that I got used somewhere.  It was worthless until I flashed it
 > with Rockbox.  Then it was actually pretty nice.
 
Oh, the Archos, that was a nice device, forgot about it. And yes RockBox is
cool :-D I like that you can dual boot I like to have it behind in my old iPod
classic, which I still use from time to time. At one point and still might do
it is to replace the hard drive with an SD card, the adapter is available.

Like the iPod mini where inside the 6GB drive is actually a physical hard drive
in a CF card, it can easily be swapped with CF card or a CF adapter to an SD or
micro SD. Back then 6GB of flash was prohibitive (2005) but not today :-D I
could put a 128GB for a few bucks.

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