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| From | Matthew George <abertawe@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: iPod question |
| Date | Thu, 11 May 2006 15:19:43 +0100 |
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Jaimie Vernon wrote:
> I'm just not seeing the benefits of a system that's limited at its
> source whether it contains 100 songs or 10,000. The inability for people
> to move their files to another digital source from iPod without having
> to invest in software and countless hours of aggrevation seems
> counter-productive and well, inconvenient.
If you just load it with MP3s, there's a free plugin for Winamp which
enables you to easily copy the files off the iPod and onto your hard
disk. It's extremely simple.
> And what if the memory gets wiped by mistake? Or you lose the iPod
itself? Bye. Bye files.
But this goes for everything, doesn't it? What if there's a fire, and
your CDs get melted? If you use iTunes to administer your iPod, you can
get it to keep a copy of everything on your hard disk, and you can back
this up to another storage solution e.g. DVDs, HDD, tape, etc.
> I'm not against the system per se, but if you can't easily move the
> contents around to save them elsewhere just in case of a tragedy then
> it's rolls and bagels that you can't eat.
You can do this with no trouble at all.
I'm not an Apple apologist, by the way. I don't like the attitude
they've got towards proprietary formats, and software tie-ins. But it's
an extremely useful piece of kit - particularly when combined with an
iTrip or a dension car adapter.
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