RE: iPod blues

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sldjf,
I have read in a computer magazine that I subscribe to that Ipods will only
play music from itunes. That is unfortunate since you have a quite a large
collection of music from other formats. There a quite a few different
portable players on the market that would fill you need. Like the IRiver H10
is a 20 gig player that also displays pictures.

"sldjf" wrote:

> We have about 700 CDs from about 130 artists ripped to a directory structure
> default for Windows Media Player, which is an artist directory, holds a CD
> directory, which holds song files. Some songs are in mp3 format, some in wma
> format, depending on which of our home computers ripped the CD and at what
> stage of our understanding regarding how to handle digital music.
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> We upgraded to Windows Media Player 10 and have been enjoying music all
> around our house. I bought a 64meg portable player last Christmas. We sync
> Window Media Player (WMP) playlists to it for travel, but the battery runs
> down and it only hold a little music. This Christmas I thought is was time
> to become truly mobile, I bought an iPod 60 photo off eBay. I assumed it
> would nicely sync with WMP, similar to our existing portable device, but the
> iPod can hold ALL our music, supports playlists and has a car charger, plus
> with the right accessory, in the house we can play music from it, instead of
> the computer.
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>
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> I received a very rude, disheartening awakening.
>
> 1) It will not sync
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> 2) It will not play wma files.
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> It will only work with iTunes, which has converted some of my wma files to
> mp3 files, adding them to the directory structure, more than once. I have
> set read only permissions to the directories to prevent any more of a mess.
> But now the question is, NOW WHAT?
>
> Sell the iPod, or what? I'd still like a portable player to hold all our
> music. If I can carry our pictures with us too, that would be great. The
> iPod even has PDA functions. I'd love that. I carry a Blackberry from my
> employer, but my wife uses an old Palm, if her mp3 player replaced the Palm
> that would be great. She uses Outlook for email, calendar and contacts,
> Outlook integration would be very nice.
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> It seems both Anapod Explorer and XPlay2 are reasonable solutions.
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> Please help me understand why I would choose one software over the other.
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>
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