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Posted by Timothy J. Trace on 12/31/05 20:46
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 19:37:31 +0000, usenet@alienrat.co.uk (Woody)
wrote:
>So you got an iPod shuffle at 9:30, thought 'for some reason I want to
>use this iPod shuffle without iTunes' and by 9:36 you had all your songs
>on it?
Thanks for not being mean :>
In your example, I would say that the time from 9:00 to 9:30 was spent
opening boxes and trying to figure out the shuffle paradigm. Once I
had all the ducks in a row, I performed and repeated the procedure
twice to be certain that it was working before I trained my wife. No
more than 6 minutes in either instance.
I'm a previous iPod owner. I've had a 4G 20GB and 1 1G Mini 4GB for
nearly a year. I've never used iTunes. From the very start I've only
synced my players using Ephpod, and I wanted the wife's new shuffle to
sync with Ephpod, also. Unfortunately, as I discovered last night,
Ephpod does not support the iPod shuffle, and there are no plans to
add that compatibility.
One reason I sync with Ephpod is that I prefer to keep all of my media
in a single server-side directory where my LinkSys WMA11B can see all
of it. Another reason is that keeping everything on the server allows
me to access my music from whichever of my workstations or notebooks
that I happen to be logged into at any given moment.
Unless iTunes has changed, and *please* correct me if I'm wrong, songs
that you download to the player are not backed up on the host PC. Lose
the player, lose the music. Or, to stretch the analogy, no WMA11B
connected to the player, no iTunes songs on the home entertainment
system. And, no, I don't believe you can connect a WMA11B to an iPod,
anyway.
Admittedly this leaves me out of the loop with regards to cutting edge
music, and stuff that is not represented in my collection. I
currently don't buy downloadable music. I'm making a statement of
some kind. Well, perhaps: I've ripped almost 500 discs from my
collection using Exact Audio Copy and LAME, and I populate my players
from those rips.
The last thing I need is an outlet where I can toss away $1 per song
on new stuff and rarities...I'll be broke within a week :>
As for missing out on the functionality of iTunes, that's not a huge
concern, but I'll grant that I don't know much about iTunes. What I
have now with Ephpod, etc, works well and is not all that much more
complicated than what I imagine iTunes to be.
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