Topic author: Vechs
Subject: I hated my iPod... is this the right PMP for me?
Posted on: 04/19/2006 11:42:27 PM
Message:

I've been shopping around for a good PMP and first tried the iPod Video and returned it after about 5 hours. I hated having to use iTunes. And how you had to convert all files you wanted to play. And how playing video on it required tedious and long re-encoding, and how the software that did that was a seperate 25$ ( I did find a free 3rd party program that would do it... slowly). And how you could copy mp3s directly to it's hard drive, but it wouldn't recognize them. That's crap.

My main question about this player is how you copy music and video to it from your PC. It said in the product description that there is no software required, but maybe that means using it with other hardware, so I wanted a specific answer here.

Do I copy and paste files to it like I would any USB hard drive, and then it can play those files?

Is there any file managment software to deal with?

Will it use my pre-existing directory structure, or will it pull an iPod and say "no, screw you, I'm using the ID3 tags, your carefully organised folders be damned!"

Thanks :)