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Originally Posted by baggss
Why in the world would I care what software you use to manage your digital library or what your choice of PMP is? Use what works for you, I'll use what works for me, pretty simple.
What I don't get is why you chose to come to an Apple based (and biased) forum and post a long winded, and ultimately pointless, thread about why you dislike the iPod and iTunes. It seems to me that your intent was one of two things:
1) Stir up trouble.
2) Get attention.
It seems you have succeeded at #2 but failed at #1. Use what you want, but why do we care? There are much better places out there to post this sort of thing than here.
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I think his post is a good thing, and it appears to have done what it was intended, and that was to get us into a discussion of our overall likes and dislikes. Hey, maybe he is an Apple employee in disguise trying to get some feedback for new products (it could happen).
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Originally Posted by Strukt
I had a hard time accepting iTunes when I switched from Windows. I was used to Winamp and to organize my music myself into folders that made sense for me. It actually took a while until I really switched to iTunes. I realized it was a lot better to organize the music the iTunes way ... and now I cant live without it.
However we people are not alike, if that Sony player works best for you so why not? It is not like you are FORCED to use the iPod if you are taking part in this forum 
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Like Strukt, all of my music (some 50gb or so) is organized in folders by genre, then artist, then album. On my Winsux machine I prefer WinAmp for the ability to browse my collection and only play what I want. Because I keep all of my music well organized, I don't like that iTunes lumps everything it imports into a single massive list.
As such, I typically only import music I listen to on a regular basis (the 3gb or so that I keep on my iPod) and use Audion when I want to make a non-regular playlist to listen to for a couple of days.
To the OP, when it comes to the hardware, different strokes for different folks, and I mean that in a non-sarcastic way. The iPod is an awesome and ingenius, long lasting, quality solution that most other brands cannot compare to. That being said.....I do have some qualms of my own.
I like to go bike riding a lot (no, I am not part of the Spandex regime, thank God), and when walking through the Devil's lair...er...Wal-Mart...recently, I was browsing PMP's. I recently lost my iPod Shuffle and was in the market for a new player. Sanso, RCA, and the others all had the same crappy and short lived players they have been peddling for some time in different flavors, but then something caught my eye. And oddly enough, it was a Sony product.
Yes, Sony has been evil numerous times, like with the above mentioned DRM, but remember....Sony is in a way responsible for the iPod's creation. Anyone remember the Walkman that played tapes before we had MP3's? It got people hooked on portable personal media players. As technology evolved, so did the players, and Apple brought their A-game and brought forth the iPod.
Back to the Sony that caught my eye. I forget the model number, or what Walman flavor it was called, but it appealed to me because it looked like a pair of BT headsets tethered by a short cord. 2gb of storage, multi-format including AAC (got to love packing almost 3gb of mp3's onto a 2gb player), 12plus hours of battery life, and no cords to dangle. Perfect for a guy on his bike. Only 60 dollars USD. So I started saving, but in the end, just before I was going to go buy it, I saw a 30gb iPod on LEMSWAP for 50 and just couldn't say no.
I can always get a BT adapter for my iPod to use a wireless headset, and an armstrap to hold my iPod when cycling, and for sure I wouldn't be able to plug in and control the Sony from my buddy's car stereo like I can with my iPod.
Even though I bought an iPod I'm still going to say that Sony won this round. Apple didn't take proper advantage of a market niche. On the other hand, there is a company that makes headphones with an iPod shuffle (2nd gen) cradle built smack into the middle of the band that goes around the back of your head, but why didn't Apple come up with this on their own?
And in getting back to the root reason for this posting, when iTunes upset me, I can always plug my old Winsux laptop back in and use WinAmp to sync my iPod
