regarding ipods

ascannerlightly

i'm thinking about buying an ipod classic off of craigslist. when it comes to a music player i couldn't possibly care less about how sleek and stylish the all aluminum case is, how light/thin it is, or some novelty feature like an accelerometer to "shuffle" the songs. i don't even care if it's a little "bricky", to be honest. my main concern is storage space. 95% of the time it will sit either in my lap while riding the bus or in my bag on my walk to/from the bus stop and work/home. my question(s) are: do i have to use itunes to load/sync music files to/from my pc? are there any third-party programs i can do this with? can i access the ipod manually like a thumb drive?

tl:dr HOW DO I SHOT IPOD??

I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up

no, i use winamp. hate itunes and you can use it like a thumb drive but what you put in there like that you can't play as songs.

tldr; winamp

Willeth

Depending on how old it is, you might well be able to replace the firmware with Rockbox, which would then allow you to manage your music just by dragging and dropping it into a folder tree. The nice thing about this is that it behaves just like a portable hard drive that also plays music.

However, the main advantage of using an iPod is iTunes. If you're not going to use it, why iPod? Why not look at other players that might work like you want natively?

ascannerlightly

i plan to use itunes at some point in the future, i was just wondering if i "had" to. i'm looking at the ipod classic specifically because of it's aforementioned storage capacity and (because of it's relative age) the lower price range. i also think they're well-designed as far as controls & ui. my current music player is this piece of shit. 2 gig and the software (firmware? i guess?) acts weird. it crashes and at random chooses to only see 25% of the currently-loaded files. if anyone knows of an inexpensive, reliable mp3 player in the 20g range i'm open to suggestions.

I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up

ascannerlightly wrote: »

i plan to use itunes at some point in the future, i was just wondering if i "had" to. i'm looking at the ipod classic specifically because of it's aforementioned storage capacity and (because of it's relative age) the lower price range. i also think they're well-designed as far as controls & ui. my current music player is this piece of shit. 2 gig and the software (firmware? i guess?) acts weird. it crashes and at random chooses to only see 25% of the currently-loaded files. if anyone knows of an inexpensive, reliable mp3 player in the 20g range i'm open to suggestions.

cheap video player?

creative zen. i had a 30gb version for 2 years before it broke

ascannerlightly

music player. if it will play videos too (such as the ipod classic) then hey, great. but my main focus is music.

ascannerlightly

update:

I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up wrote: »

creative zen. i had a 30gb version for 2 years before it broke

winner. after some more digging i found a "used" creative zen vision:m 30gb for $45.

Apogee

I'm not sure from your last post if you bough tit or not, but I can reccomend the old iPod 4th generation models. I worked a summer repairing iPods; those ones are built like rocks. Tough the break.

Mike Danger

As a counterpoint, I had a Creative Zen which broke after a few months of usage. I went over to the iPod line from there and have been pretty pleased with things since.

If you're using a PC and you're just loading music, you can't beat foobar2000 and foo_dop.