Posted by audiohead on 10/18/05 21:14

Drrouter wrote:
> Hi -
>
>
> I have resisted the plunge into MP3 players because I wanted the market
>
> to sift itself out....but I need to go ahead and buy one. My question
> is this, I buy CD's, having about 500 now, and am looking for the best
> combination of player and software to manage my music. I hear the iPOD
>
> is proprietary, you cannot get music from Walmart, Yahoo, etc. and use
> it on the iPOD (may be wrong here). I only want to convert my CD
> collection one time...so recommendations are welcome

Yeah, most download sites only offer the ubiquitous MS protected WMA
format, which of course sucks. I suspect more sites will become
available that offer AAC and MP3 formats, which i-Pod supports. If
you're only going to convert your CD collection use the i-Pod/i-Tunes
combo, which is still second to none. Good luck.

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