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Posted by Nimrod on 09/09/06 15:28
"P Pron" <paulatspambegone.pron@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Nimrod wrote:
> || "P Pron" <paulatspambegone.pron@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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> ||| Nimrod wrote:
> ||||| "Alex" <alex1385NOSPAM@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> |||||| "Chris Macnamara" <chris.takeoutspammacnamara@ntlworld.com>
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> ||||||| Sorry for the OT, but if I need technology answers, this group
> ||||||| seems to know better than anywhere else.
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> ||||||| Looking for around 2-4 gigs, as light as possible, and very very
> ||||||| very easy
> ||||||| to use.
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> ||||||| Is it just the iPod Nano, then?
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> ||||||| Any other recommendations please.
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> |||||| The Nano is a good machine, probably the best of the Apple range,
> |||||| but maybe
> |||||| check out the Creative range, particularly the Zen V:
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> http://us.creative.com/products/category.asp?category=213&subcategory=214
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> |||||| I have a Zen Micro which is great, but thicker than the Nano -
> |||||| though has greater capacity and a radio, plus removable battery.
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> ||||| and you're not stuck with the sony propriety format - you can use
> ||||| standard mp3's
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> ||| Could you explain the reference to Sony?
> ||| paul
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> || The iPod's 'preferred' music format is AAC, developed to allow the
> || inclusion of DRM data and is generally not usable outside the ipod.
> || MP3's on the other hand you can transfer and use on pretty much any
> || machine. It's like with minidisk - they tried to make ATRAC the new
> || compression standard but luckily minidisk never really caught on as
> || mp3's were becoming popular in the pc.
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> Thanks - I was aware of ATRAC, but didn't know that AAC had anything to do
> with Sony.
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> I don't think it's right to suggest that an iPod user would be "stuck"
> with AAC, though - I have an iPod, and it is as happy with MP3s as it is
> with AAC - and iTunes will rip CDs to MP3, if preferred. I haven't tried
> the Creative range, but I really like my iPod, for ease of use, in
> conjunction with iTunes...
the problem is that stuff you download from Itunes in the AAC format is a
bitch to transfer to any other device - even if you can do it. That
effectively ties downloads from Itunes - which most people who don't know
better will be downloading from - to the ipod, locking you into that brand.
Pretty much any other machine will let you transfer your music to any
device.
The ipods menu system was actually stolen from creative (check out the news
and law suits currently going on), meaning the creative system is
effectively the same (actually better) than apple. But that's neither here
or there. The original poster wanted alternatives to Apple and I just posted
info. The choice, as they say, is yours.
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