AT Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:36:09 Lee wrote:

>The reason it is somewhat difficult to get the music off the iPod, is 
>because there is concern about people using the iPod to share music - which 
>they do - but you have to go outside the normal process to do it.  The 
>software is free too, and 'countless hours' would be a rare case.

Again....this seems rather self defeating as a means of listening 
convenience. If I've gotta go download software and plug-ins and what have 
you from somewhere else to get my music back off the iPod, even if it takes 
30 seconds, means the system has a big, fat hole in it.

Make the music easy to load in and JUST as easy to unload and I'm there.

>And you have to realize that managing 10,000+ songs on a computer in a way
>that is usefull is not an easy task - for software or the person.  The
>software to manage that much music has gotten much better over the years,
>but that management has to be done on the computer not the iPod - you need 
>a
>keyboard and a monitor to be able to see enough information to make this
>possible.

I've never complained about managing the songs....I have several thousand 
MP3s in my system right now....but getting them back off the iPod without 
investing in yet more technology has left my MP3s forever on my hard drive 
and on CDRs when I want to make them mobile. If I lose a disc (which I 
rarely do), I can burn another. If my hard-drive crashes, I can rip the 
material back onto them from the CDRs with a click-and-a-point. Just waiting 
for iPod to make that same claim.

That's all I'm trying to say here, folks.


Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
"Not Infecting Our Customers' Computers Since 1985!!"
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Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
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